My Little House On The Prairie

Last Friday, they started moving dirt on the house we are building. It is very exciting! (And nerve-racking, and worrisome, and hopeful, and fun...you get the idea.) Brad went yesterday morning to tell the guy where to put the driveway and took some pictures for me. We looked at them last night and I was struck by how BIG and OPEN it looks. Not a tree or shrub in sight. It really is going to be a house on the prairie.

I'm not really sure what we are looking at here, except that it is where the driveway will go. I know this because of the big ditch running alongside the right of picture. Brad calls it an arroyo, but I think it's really a ditch. Whichever it is, there will be a culvert over it and then a driveway.


This is a picture from the back of our lot. Brad was standing at the very top of our property looking down at where the backyard and then the house will be. If you look waaaaay off in the distance, you can see the Amarillo skyline.


Again, I have no idea where this is, but I thought the sky was really pretty. Kinda wants to make you sing a verse of "Home On The Range."


I think this is another picture from the back our lot. I just thought the lovely lines in the dirt were very calming...like those tiny sand gardens with the tiny rakes you see in doctors' offices. Maybe the dirt guys do that so the wives won't freak out about actually building the house they've been dreaming about for five years. Very thoughtful of them.