We have walls!
Wow! We have some walls now! Many thanks for all the help today!
Rafters!
Working late. Isn’t he amazing?
Setting posts
Don’t be fooled by the eager look on those girls’ faces. They are NOT actually helping. 🙂
Many thanks to our friend, Dan, for his huge help this week! I found I had to get out of the way, because it was very tricky to get the posts to balance on the bobcat, while lifting and shimmying it into the holes. Whew! I’m glad this phase is complete!
The posts are here!!
That’s right! The posts have arrived!! Can you even believe it?! After all this time, it seems like a mirage that they are actually here!
Many thanks to our extremely patient apprentice, Shelley, for her continued help this season. While I was busy trying to keep the kiddos out of the way (and not doing a very good job of it), she and Jonathan managed to get the system down for setting the first 3 posts. Only 30 more to go! Hopefully, it will start to go a bit quicker now that they worked out a good strategy.
Do you see all those changing colors in the landscape? Yup, Mother Nature is reminding us daily of the shifting seasons. (Scarlet keeps noticing too and reminding us that it will soon be her 4th birthday. She knows she is named after the intensely beautiful color of the leaves on the day she was born.)
Soon enough the snow will fly. And how far will we be on the house when this happens? That is the looming question for us. Stay tuned for updates!
We have some really good news!
Have you heard the news?? We passed our initial building inspection last month! And we have some other really good news to share, too! An amazing investor has reached out and loaned us the initial funds to get the insulated outer shell of the house complete…possibly by winter! We just placed the order for the posts and roof lumber yesterday! Yahoo!!!
We have, however, continued to face some hurdles to with the inspector, getting approval for our unconventional building materials and metho
ds. The latest is that we need to send in another $1200 to apply for a special exception to build our below grade wall with earthbags. (The other option is using treated, AKA toxic, lumber.)
As deeply frustrating as these hurdles are, indulging in the drama, of course, does no good. It is good practice for us to learn to be awesome in the face of these challenges. (Exhausted sigh.)
In case you missed the short video tour of the house site and building plans, you can watch it HERE.
Tour of the House Site!
We’ve had lots of questions about our house plans, so we thought we’d give you all a tour! Many thanks to Dan Noyes of Vesper Eco-Architecture for his unbelievable help in making this a reality!!
For more on how we are doing with our time crunch with the building inspectors, please visit: