Holy Shack! What have we done??

Today was a relatively normal day free of thinking about the past. Well, it was that until about 8:20 PM when I logged into Facebook and noticed that a good friend of mine had tagged me in a photo. I was not actually in this photo, but she wanted me to see it. It was a picture she had taken of the Shack a very long time ago - long before we owned the place, or even had designs on owning it, I'll bet. I was floored by the sudden realization of just how much has changed around here. Take a look:

If you can believe it, this is what the property looked like long ago, under the previous owners I suppose. Note the archway, the logical sidewalk, the porch still being there, the not-a-really-big-hole-in-the-ground, the large shrubbery and intact fence, the little windmill thing, the large wooden wheel, the actual grass...even if the season had never changed, the complexion of the property has been altered drastically, and permanently. This photo will look even more distant once there is no longer a Shack at all, but instead a brand new house (or perhaps non-Shack?).

This will conclude my reminiscing for the day. Every so often I just have to look back, and realize that even though the house is still just a hole in the ground right now, there has still been an amazing amount of progress made so far. And to think this all started with Dad's crazy dreaming.