Starting in the summer of 2019, work picked up on land clearing. Sam had already cleared a lot by this time, but with Jeffrey aboard, clearing activities accelerated. By fall of 2020, much of the under brush had been removed, vines pulled from trees, and fence lines cleared—helped dramatically by some bulldozer work that took out many of the red oaks that had been neglected and allowed to become sprawling octopuses. The overall goal of this work was to open up the view from the schoolhouse to the hill behind. The next-to-the-last picture in the sequence below shows our most recent work trimming the largest live oak on the property.
