Last weekend Ben and I spent four days on the land literally chopping our way through to see what’s going on. We spent hours slicing through briars and knocking down small trees just to carve out a mere three trails, none of which connect yet. I can’t even put into words how much of a mess it is. In most places you can’t see past 20 feet in front of you, not like you can when you’re standing in an old-growth forest.
But, it’s all ok. There’s a part of me that is very happy it’s going to take so much work to make it nice. This is absolutely a labor of love and to confirm that, Ben asked me to marry him after three hours of chopping through the woods and asking me a bunch of questions about whether I think I’m up to the task of building a house there with him. I said yes… and I couldn’t (seriously) COULDN’T be more excited about the next few years.
Our next trip back will be during the last week of December and we’re hoping to bring better tools than just our machetes.
