Besides being a completely different home, one of the reasons for the price difference is that I agreed to do all the grading work for the house, garage and barn. That is a lot of work considering I'm only there on weekends and I had to get it finished by the end of April. Not only that, I had all this work at home I'm swamped with, so I couldn't really go up during the week if I had to.
Anyway, my deal was to clear off the homesite area. That means getting rid of all the vegetation where the house and garage will be and also the surrounding area. I don't have to grade that area level, but I have to clear and remove trees, rocks and boulders and then the surrounding area including in front of the rock bluff down a very steep grade. This is required by the Fire department.
So I started into the homesite...
And quickly disappeared in the vegetation!