Your roller coaster creeps slowly, slowly toward the top of the track, and for a moment, you pause before plummeting. It’s a moment in which you are eager for the thrilling plunge and yet, you may also be asking yourself whatever possessed you to get on this ride. There is […]
It looks like we may be excavating the building site and pouring part of our foundation within a few weeks! This will be the third time we have ripped open the earth, and each time feels traumatic when the bulldozers and backhoes have at it. We had to dig into […]
Our house will be built of unmilled timbers, which we selected from our woods (see my post How to Peel Trees). Most of them have been peeled and are starting to dry before they will be felled this winter. Some are too tall to peel until they are felled. It’s […]
“Hey!” we said. (Watch out for brilliant ideas – they always turn out to be a lot of work.) “While Bruce is here excavating for our septic system, let’s ask him to move a few trees planted by the previous owner, and we can make our future garden plot bigger.” […]
This past week when Doug was mowing around a mound of topsoil to make it more accessible for the excavator, he was stung painfully. We warned the men working on our septic system, but though they dug up and moved that mound, they encountered no bees. Just a few days […]
We are ready to flush our toilet, except that we don’t have one yet. That has to wait till the house is built next summer. However, our drainfield has been planned, approved, laid in, and seeded over. And last week a super-duper septic tank was added to the project. I […]
We are jump-starting next year’s house building project by getting the septic system done this fall. This way we will have good, thick plant cover by the winter of 2012 when we start using it. In places like Wisconsin and Minnesota one has to take care to keep good plant […]
