Posted in Construction, Pictures on Dec 5th, 2007 3 Comments »
So, I’m finally back - after a month of focus on the house. As you all read in Amber’s previous post(s) we’ve hired some people to help us put the house up. I had originally intended to start putting the house up just by myself and with family during November…that didn’t happen. We did get […]
Posted in General, Pictures on Nov 25th, 2007 No Comments »
Progress is being made, although we haven’t had much time in front of the computer in order share what’s happened. My mother-in-law was kind enough to send me a couple pictures she took yesterday and I thought they were good representations of what we’ve done.
First, here’s our start on the house. We got delivery on […]
Posted in General, Pictures on Sep 16th, 2007 4 Comments »
Well, finally, things are starting to happen! We got a septic permit this week, and we started working on that system. Our building permit should be coming any day now, and in anticipation we’ve started chalking the outline of the house and getting ready to do some foundation work.
Here’s Emma, helping with the […]
Posted in General, Pictures on Sep 9th, 2007 1 Comment »
Here’s some pictures of our camp, now that we’re nicely settled. Looking at these pictures makes me think of a squatter’s camp (as my brother said) but in person I think it is a bit more attractive.
Here’s the kitchen:
Here’s the “living room”:
Here’s a shot of the garden and the camp beyond:
And here’s Matt and his […]
Posted in Pictures on Aug 2nd, 2007 3 Comments »
Here are the pictoral highlights of our moving and settling in process. More commentary will come, but pictures tell the story pretty well.
A last shot of the kids at the door of our old place.
We used a 26 foot […]
Posted in Pictures, Workshop on Jul 18th, 2007 3 Comments »
I’ve spent the last two weekends working on my workshop. The focus has largely been the roof rafters, but I did put up some wall sheathing to help keep the structure stable.
After having worked on the rafters, I’m very glad that our house will not have standard rafters with a bird’s mouth. I spent several […]
Posted in General, Pictures on Jul 14th, 2007 No Comments »
Look what we had delivered on Wednesday!
You don’t think this looks so great? Well, here’s the alternative…
Posted in Pictures on Jul 11th, 2007 No Comments »
I took some shots of our well when I was up there last weekend. It sure looks like a nice little package and I’m looking forward to running it.
This is the “front” of the well. The motor/pump controller is on the left, the tank is the blue bit on the right and our electical box […]
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).