Posted in Pictures, Workshop on Jun 19th, 2007 2 Comments »
I’m not sure if I’ve mentioned this before, but I have no experience building a structure bigger than a small cabinet. Given this lack of experience, it may seem foolhardy to build your own house but I’m taking it in steps.
One of these steps is to build a small workshop. In addition to giving me […]
Posted in General, Pictures on Jun 18th, 2007 No Comments »
With all the clearing we’ve done for the house, a lot of trees have come down. Over the weekend I took pictures of our wood piles.
The soft wood (pine and fir).
The hard wood (oak).
Posted in Announcements on Jun 16th, 2007 No Comments »
Wait, that sounds odd.
We have submitted our plans to the county building department and we have our permit number. Thanks the wonders of the modern world, we can now plug our number into a website and watch our plans go through the various steps required for getting our plans approved. Now we just […]
Posted in Pictures on Jun 16th, 2007 No Comments »
Apparently I didn’t spend very much time with the camera last weekend, because I have only five pictures and they are all approximately the same.
At any rate, here’s Matt feeding stuff into the chipper. It is amazing the volume change between the piles of stuff to be chipped and the wood chips produced! The pile […]
Posted in General on Jun 14th, 2007 3 Comments »
All of a sudden, I’m feeling a bit overwhelmed…
The scheduled part of my day tomorrow
8 AM - go to hardware store and pay for lumber for a small workshop[1] After 8 AM - go to ReStore and see if they have windows and/or a door for said workshop 12 PM - meet with a contractor to discuss […]
Posted in Announcements on Jun 14th, 2007 No Comments »
Matt got a call this afternoon from our project manager at SHS and our plans are done in engineering. We are ready to submit! Matt was already going to go up this weekend to work on his workshed, and now he’s going to meet with with SHS, pick up the plans, and submit […]
Posted in Announcements on Jun 5th, 2007 No Comments »
So you know how our plans were supposed be done in engineering by the end of May? Well, Matt got an email yesterday saying that the engineers were going to work on them this week. Um, gee, thanks?
We are going up to frolic, err, work on the property this weekend though. We’re all looking forward […]