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 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 Pictures on May 15th, 2007 No Comments »
We didn’t end up doing anything on the property when we were up over the weekend. By the time we got the truck unloaded and returned we were tired and not ready to try to start in on any futher projects. We stopped at the grocery store, bought some beer and chips, then […]
Posted in Pictures on May 2nd, 2007 2 Comments »
Our well is a fair distance from our house site - about 600 feet and on the other side of the road. Al trenched all of this, and then another guy came in and laid pipe in the trenches so that we can have water down at the house site (sounds like a great […]
Posted in Pictures on May 2nd, 2007 No Comments »
And here’s what they ended up doing with that big drop-off in the last post (this is standing at the opposite end of the parking pad from where the driveway comes in) -
Doesn’t that slope look much better? Notice also how the parking pad is sloped away from the house pad - this should […]
Posted in Pictures on May 2nd, 2007 No Comments »
So I’m a little behind… but now that my camera batteries are all charged I can start catching up a bit. A lot has been happening on our property since I last posted on the 17th, and here’s the first installment of pictures. These pictures are from when we were up on […]
Posted in Pictures on Apr 17th, 2007 No Comments »
We went up onto the property last weekend and got to see the beginnings of our driveway and building pad. Unfortunately, with the rain we’ve had this last week the central part of our property is a bit of a mud pit, but we were still able to walk around and get some pictures.
This […]
Posted in Pictures on Apr 5th, 2007 No Comments »
Matt’s parents are up in the area right now and they sent us some pictures of the property. A couple of weekends ago we had some people come in and cut down some trees so that we could have some more clear area and sunlight.
Here’s the pile of the logs
This is standing at the […]