Progress of Pilgrims

That property still known by the commonplace epithet of "the land", which I posted about in November of last year, has occupied much of our time lately. Reliably sure that we'll be moving there before very long, we've been expending large amounts of energy to improve the landscape in order to allow grass- and thus livestock- to grow. Progress was extremely slow for several weekends, until we had a four day stint of bulldozing, which gave much more visible results. We pushed together and burned giant piles of trees and brush, one about the size of a schoolbus.

Now that the bulldozing is done, we are undergoing the slow-but-sure process of raking up all of the smaller debris, with a 7 foot tractor-pulled rake, of course.[No pictures yet] The process is slow because each area must be passed over several times, as the rake will fill and push the sticks to the side. It works, however, and we are getting ever nearer to pasture- but it still requires a good bit of imagination to see this: