Lookin' Good

In the words of Tyler,

"Lookin' Good".  Logan's had a couple days of nice weather and thus the work continues....

The level where the trailer is parked will contain pavers for our new patio.

Is it looking as good to you as it does to us? 

Chase is trying to hide from the camera, but he wanted to make sure I took a picture of their Mega Mind stickers that they plastered on the window. 

Marshall Gold Museum

When mom and dad were serving in Nauvoo, mom found some desendants of Logan had lived there.  One was Wilford Hudson, Logan's Great Great Great Grandfather, who also served in the Mormon Battalion, after the battalion had reached the end of their march, the war with Mexico had ended and these men went north to help build the mill at Sutter's Fort.   This inscription in this preserved tree trunk was inscribed by Wilford Hudon, upon leaving Mormon Island and returning to Winters Quarters to his family. 

 Tyler and Chase somewhat bored but trying to soak in some of their history.

That could have been Chase's GGGGG Grandpa. 

We shared the day with Alan and Deb.  We were delighted to have them come and spend a few days with us before heading to the Bay Area.  

Part of the museum, the boys had fun running through and in and out of this make-shift mine.

Chase found a lizard inside and was mezmorized watching it.

After doing some online research I found this site: http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=17637 which shows a plaque that is located at Folsom Lake, only a mile from our house...which says;

Early in 1848 W. Sidney S. Willis (ES) and Wilford Hudson, members of the Mormon Battalion, set out from Sutter’s Fort to hunt deer. Stopping on the South Fork of the American River, they found gold. They told their story on returning to the Fort and soon about 150 Mormons and other miners flocked to the site, which was named “Mormon Island”. This was the first major gold strike in California after James W. Marshall’s discovery at Coloma. The population of the town in 1853 was more than 2500. It had four hotels, three dry goods stores, five general merchandise stores, an express office and many small shops. The first ball in Sacramento County was held here, December 25, 1849. A fire destroyed the town in 1856 and it was never rebuilt. It’s site, one-half mile east of here, was inundated by Folsom Lake in 1955.

So close to home, yet we weren't even aware...

Transformation

 It started long before Brett left - he loves to work on the tractor and he while tinkering on the tractor he stated digging a hole in the backyard.  Then he left.   And left a messy hole.  When we were asked what it was for our reply would be , "We can't decide where the swimming pool should be, we keep moving it."

During the springtime Logan rented this backhoe and made the hole bigger. 

We were thinking we wanted a deep end swimming pool. 

Last August one day on a whim, he called a concrete cutter and he put in a door way into the basement.  There goes the pool idea. 

(Now our burglars can go out the door instead of the window).

 That would be the wall he knocked down that he is standing on.

Just a month ago, we had an excavator come and grade the yard and finish the hole. We are lucky enough to have a friend who works for Basalite and he was able to purchase for us pavers and retaining wall brick from the yard rejects for $100 a pallet, of course we reimbursed him. And they were personally delivered by him..(Which costs a wee bit of money too).
 

Logan has spent the past few weeks stacking the block and grading the soon to be patio. 

We are excited for the transformation and I want you to know in our heads it looks beautiful.  We will have a large grassy area,  a large patio off of the future kitchen area, which will have a stairway down to this lower level patio.  We are planning on a fountain of some sort in here, along with a hot tub and low level lighting. 

And a Fence!!! With cactus and pyracantha bushes. 

She's a Doll

Having learned my lesson with Ashlyn, I grabbed my camera right before we said good by to Jill and LaNea to get these last couple of picture.  Look at that curley hair.