A BUCKET LIST EXPERIENCE

 OK, that was a play on words, as you'll soon see, but I also didn't know that this should have been on my bucket list anyway, ha.  Wow was it ever fun!

This happened a couple of months ago when we had the clearing done but I forgot to post it and with the holidays, I figured I'd wait until the new year.

So, I'm standing around talking to the owner of the company that was doing the clearing, he mentions that he climbs trees and is up in the air all the time cutting branches, etc and not working in an office.  Then, he asked me if I'm afraid of heights.  I thought it was just the natural course of a conversation and discussing our jobs.  I was honest and said, "yeah, a little".  And then he goes, "oh, well I was going ask if you wanted to ride up in the bucket and see your property from up there?"

Whoa, wait, WHAT?

"I'm not THAT scared of heights..."

This was the truck.  He had to get me strapped into a safety harness, I climbed in and he locked me in with more safety harnesses, put a hardhat on me and said "if you get freaked out, just give me the thumbs down and I'll bring you back down".

He pushed the button, and I started going up!

Check out these views!

The barn/shed looking toward 2nd Family's house and their property which butts up against our front yard.

This is looking to the next door neighbor's property where the donkeys sometimes come to visit.

This is part of the 200 acres behind us.  They use it as cattle grazing land.  It's basically our backyard view.

This is looking back toward our driveway and the front part of our property.

Last but not least, this is the future homesite and orchard area behind it.  You can also see the cleared area around Barnabas (the old mesquite tree).  We still have some left to clear at a future date in that area, but we also have new areas for planting.

Maybe we can plant actual regular trees.  We'd love a good pecan tree but seeing as how they can take up to ten years to start producing (should have done that ten years ago, ha), we might have to forgo that and just get some pretty flowering trees.

And this is me, up in the bucket!  It was 60' high up fully extended like this.  It was SO much fun!  Was I nervous?  Sure, but I felt safe in the bucket and like I said, it was a TRUE bucket list experience for sure!