This will become the driveway...

This trail will be widened to 16 feet and packed with gravel. It will ultimately be over 4000 feet long.

Getting started...

Today we met with the excavator and the well driller. The excavator's wife is a "water witch", and used dowsing rods to search for water. I'd never seen this done before, and was fascinated. I'm not too sure whether I believe in it or not, but folks out here sure do. First on the list is to cut a 3/4 mile long driveway into the home site. After that is done, the well driller and excavator will begin, and the electrical company will begin bringing power in from the adjoining parcel.

Here's a panorama of the Ola Valley...

We'll build our home on the sloping meadow in the center of the picture just to the right of the pine tree.
That's Squaw Butte in the background. The entire valley is over 30 miles long.