On February 19th, one day before my Birthday, we first laid eyes on one of the most beautiful little pieces of land in our area.
We instantly decided to sell our large row crop farm, scale down our farming operation, and take life just a little bit slower.
Within a week we purchased our little "'heaven".


View to the north, where we'll build our house.

     
           Delbert to the West near the huge oak tree.                     Daniel to the East in the creek bed.

In our area it is nearly impossible to find a builder on short notice, but we finally found one to start the house.
On May 3rd 1999 we laid out the basic plan of the house.


Delbert with his tractor, and the builder with his Uni-loader.


Daniel in front of my car.  Behind that the orange tape marks the area where we'll build.