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Welcome back to the Underground House project. Yesterday, Zac and his trusty companion, The Blue Bird Guy, went to town in his beautiful flatbed hauler that we built. We had to get a replacement hydraulic hose for the one that broke on Gary's tractor, 15 gallons of diesel fuel, eight 20 foot lengths...

The green bus listed above looks like it may just be what you need. Plenty of seating and perhaps even room for musical instruments. Good find.

That's it for now.

Tomorrow, Zac and I have to return the box truck.

I will take a few more pics of the logging process.

Soon we'll have some pics of the big machine hoisting up timbers. That will be fun.

Oh look, two at once. http://i1099.photobucket.com/albums/g385/Rudytoons/Underground%20House/4028.jpg And the pile gets bigger. http://i1099.photobucket.com/albums/g385/Rudytoons/Underground%20House/4029.jpg And bigger and bigger. http://i1099.photobucket.com/albums/g385/Rudytoons/Underground%20Hous...

Here are pictures of Zac hauling trees out of the woods and bringing them to the pile. http://i1099.photobucket.com/albums/g385/Rudytoons/Underground%20House/4024.jpg http://i1099.photobucket.com/albums/g385/Rudytoons/Underground%20House/4025.jpg http://i1099.photobucket.com/albums/g385/Rudytoons/Un...

Here you see where trees have been felled, de-limbed, and de-barked.

The beginning of the stack of oak logs that have been cut and stripped.

The Amish crew arrives. Their main job, presently, is to cut down oak trees on the property and de-bark them. They will be used for the beams that sit atop the cedar posts. You will only see these two photos of them as it is against their religion to "pose". I told the leader of the crew t...

Zac already had a stack of cedar trees that will be used for the posts of the house.

More pics of Zac's tractor in action. http://i1099.photobucket.com/albums/g385/Rudytoons/Underground%20House/4014.jpg http://i1099.photobucket.com/albums/g385/Rudytoons/Underground%20House/4015.jpg Where Zac cleaned up the edge of the wall. http://i1099.photobucket.com/albums/g385/Rudytoons/Undergro...

Now, back to our regularly scheduled program, The Underground House. You may remember when Rick brought his Kubota tractor over to straighten out some of the dirt walls. On that day, Zac also used his little Hanimoto diesel tractor to do the same task. I think it is a Japanese tractor. All the placa...

That closes this segment of the entertainment portion of these chronicles.

It is time to return to the underground house project.

Stay tuned to this channel, and y'all come back ya hear.

There were perhaps 300 people there, and a good time was had by all. http://i1099.photobucket.com/albums/g385/Rudytoons/River%20Jam/HPIM4185.jpg http://i1099.photobucket.com/albums/g385/Rudytoons/River%20Jam/HPIM4184.jpg http://i1099.photobucket.com/albums/g385/Rudytoons/River%20Jam/HPIM4191.jpg

More of Honkysuckle.

The last band to play was Honkysuckle. They really got the crowd jumping. I have been invited to play accordion with them in two weeks. http://i1099.photobucket.com/albums/g385/Rudytoons/River%20Jam/HPIM4190.jpg http://i1099.photobucket.com/albums/g385/Rudytoons/River%20Jam/HPIM4189.jpg http://i1099...