I borrowed a trailer from a colleague on Saturday to take the mini excavator out to the property so I didn't actually get started until about 1030 or so. It was cold and rainy but it was nice inside the cab. I pulled out five more trees that were down the slope that the Dingo couldn't pull out and limbed them. Left the branches for the family as the kids do a good job with that activity.
I met one of the lot owners (he actually owns six) and has a reputation of bullying and generally not being a nice person. He introduced himself as a neighbor and I was happy to meet someone new. I quickly realized who he was and my guard went up.
Without going into painstaking detail (I outlined a two page document to the board describing the incident), he basically told me that because he owns premium lots (no such thing), paid a much higher price than I did (he purchased when the market was high), and the view covenant of the CCNRs says my house can't be visible in his view corridor (it stipulates you cannot block the snow cap portion of the mountain, nothing about screening a house or any such thing as a view corridor) or else he will take legal action against me (he's not authorized on behalf of the board nor does he have any legal right to do so). I also found out that he came onto my property (before I purchased) and fell about 20 trees so he could have a full view of the foothills below the mountain (he only has permission to have trees topped if they block the snow cap portion ONLY). About two weeks ago, he got into a very heated argument with another lot owner who is building and told him he would cut his fence to come onto his property and cut trees down if they were blocking his view. Unbelieveable. Note that he doesn't actually live here nor has any plans to.
Worked until dark and then headed home.
Sunday afternoon was more of the same work and the family stayed home. The wife had work to do and the kids were more than happy to clean their rooms instead of coming out :-(
Everyone was off on Monday but lots of activities going on. The wife (C) and son (B) did a 5k that was for a teenager that got paralyzed. This was probably about the seventh 5k for B but his legs were bothering him so C walked with him for about a mile and then she took off ... still got 3rd female overall. I didn't get to run as I stayed home with S - I ran later that night with a time of 21:58 (7:04/mile). Not my best time but I haven't been training for short distance recently, still on the HIM plan. Anyway, they got home about 1030 and then I headed back out to the property.
Spent most of the time clearing the front area and is really starting to open up. We plan to landscape and put walking paths through here.
The stumps will be piled off the side and chopped up later. The piles of underbrush which now is about 30 yards worth will also be pushed off and as it dies/browns, it will be burned with the stumps at some point in the future.
The rock pile is growing and S loves climbing all over them. The rocks on the right side are about 200-500lbs each although they don't look that big in the picture. Will be really nice for the huge water feature I will be building.
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I think I'm done with trees until we get to foundation excavaction time and see if anymore need to come down.
The last thing I did before leaving was to level out the entry way. You couldn't really tell from one of the earlier pictures but the dark area on the left was mounded up (previous perc hole). The side was about 2' higher making the drive about 10' across. After I scraped it down and cleaned it up, the drive is now about 20' across and much easier getting in and out with trailers.
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