October 6, 2018 A day of days

Today is something of a milestone. 

This is what we started with.

After we decided to engage in the Creekside Farm project, it took nearly a year (and many months of work) to clear the Farm off enough to see the ground, the edges, and get the larger things broken down into what might be called "trash" properly. Before that we couldn't begin to remove the stuff  with any efficiency at all. There was a double wide mobile home that had burned down, an RV motor home that was more than just a wreck, a shipping container full of paper and other waste, and everywhere you went on the property you found some new pile of miscellaneous debris.

After we emptied the container.

There was trash everywhere.

In the first year we spent quite a bit of time simply trying to get some idea of the size of the problem. 

Eventually we got the bulk of the debris pushed into one large pile.
The pile was about eighty feet long, twelve feet deep, and eight feet high.

We had a four yard dumpster dropped early on, but the scale of the work required something more massive. The real clean-up started in May of 2016 when we had two gigantic dumpster boxes dropped on what became the driveway and loaded them up for three days. After the sixty yards of debris was removed, the remaining pile (only forty feet long, ten deep, and six high) simply had to wait for time and money to present themselves. The time came when we moved to the Farm and got settled in. The money came when we sold our house in town.

Since then we have done so much at Creekside Farm, not the least of which was having a four yard dumpster brought nearly every week - filling it - and getting another. Each week we chipped away at the pile.

Today we got the last of the "one large pile" cleared away. 

There are no pictures to show you how we feel about today. We have been working toward this for so very long and all anyone would notice by looking is that there is no giant pile of trash sitting in the middle of the place. Today we have the place torn apart as we put together the new septic system and prepare to build our farm house. There are also a few very large burn piles sitting around waiting for a match. So anyone driving by the first time might only see the mess we have created. But the septic ditches will be filled in this week, the burn piles lit next weekend. Once these are done all anyone will see it a Farm. And it only took three years of blood, sweat, tears, and cash.