Chim-Chiminee

Sunday we went back out to the house to see what had been done since our last visit. The upstairs/roof is framed and we have a chimney sticking out of it. It isn't connected to anything but it's there. The balcony out the back is a lot bigger than I imagined. I want to put a chaise out there - there is room for Robert, too.
We walked over to Doug & Vince's lot and they were there planting trees & shrubs that they brought with them. They're here for the week to plant. They started showing us around their lot and we were following a path that leads into an old logging road and we ended up going on a hike. We followed the road around the base of the mountain and it runs down around the bottom of our lot. We ended up having to climb up a very steep embankment to get up to another logging road to get back. Otherwise, we would have to turn around and go back the way we came. Since the hike was spontaneous, Robert and I didn't have our hiking shoes on and our feet were slipping quite a bit on the leaves. With a few pushes & pulls we made it up the hill (mountain) to the logging road. I saw something sparkling on the ground that looked like pieces of glass and Vince said it was mica. I kept 2 silver-dollar size pieces as souveniers. Robert and I had been wanting to take that hike on the logging road and wanted to do it before poison ivy season so we were so happy we did it. It gives a new dimension to the property and hiking it with someone who knew where the road went was a lot better than going on our own. (The last time the guys went on that hike they saw bears.) After the hike we gave them a tour of our house and then Robert & I sat up in the attic in the sun and ate our tuna sandwiches before we went home.