A couple weeks after painting the house, Shane Schrader’s crew (Schrader Excavating) showed up with a dozer and backhoe. They dug two large pits to the north and east of the barn. In it the place the corncrib, chicken coops, and extra out buildings.
The timing was a race between the end of good weather and the fact that we hadn’t officially closed on the property yet. In the last week of November, we were pushing our attorney (to push the sellers’) to hurry up closing, as we had taken position on a hand shake to make minor improvements. Three days before closing, John called me to tell me he had started one of two burn permits. I passed the information along to our attorney, who started working much harder to push closing.
By the end of the week, John had burned both pits, the driveway was regarded, there was a rock circle drive around the barn, and a building pad for a machine shed. We closed on a Thursday evening, and it rained the next morning.
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