Building Our House

Sorry to keep you up in the air, Stephanie! It’s been a wee bit crazy around here. We have no home land line phone and thus no DSL or other home internet access for at least another week, and work has actually been needing me to, you know, work, so opportunities for electronic updating have […]

The new house is ours. Not without a little bit of last minute anxiety, but it all worked out OK. Just back from visiting it after Jeff got home from teaching, and am now way too tired to post any details, but the main point is: it’s done. We are now proud two-home owners, hopefully for […]

Clearly I am not cut out to be a journal keeper. Of course, one could argue that I do have rather a lot going on right now…
Last Wednesday we saw numbers 14 and 15. Hey, it’s less than a week!
#14, House on the Corner - was, well, on a corner, fairly small lot, almost across […]

On Saturday, we got a call from the agent listing the 14+3 acres, of which #9 Bring Your Own Bridge was a part. She was putting together a conference call with the other folks who had expressed an interest in having a part of that land, and with a developer.
So here’s the grand plan. We […]

OK, I’m not actually going to write about our vacation on the house blog.  But we did go on vacation, and the house/development-building planning took a bit of a break as well, while the architect did her research.
Apparently, to be a developer, you have to already be a developer. Word from the architect’s bank is […]

I don’t think I’ve mentioned this idea of Jeff’s yet…  Form a partnership with the architect and a builder, buy a bigger piece of land (like maybe the 14+3 with the bridge requirement), build our house on part of it, and make a little development of similarly-designed, energy-efficient, eco-friendly, don’t-clearcut-the-trees houses out of the rest.
This kind […]

The real estate agent didn’t get much more out of Mr. BA-NO than we did.  So that’s not going anywhere.  I must confess to being slightly relieved, though it was a nice piece of land.  The extra costs of putting in the long driveway, utility lines and their cleared right-of-ways, etc., would really cut into […]

Jeff found a listing for 3 acres, very close to the original almost-bought lot from back in November.  He called the listing agent.  It is being sold by other members of the same family who originally owned the whole area, including the almost-bought lot. 
 She (the listing agent) was quite interested to hear the saga of […]

The 2.4 acre pieces look pretty nice, but the neighbor says they don’t perk.  A previous would-be buyer tried in a bunch of places, and none of them worked.  Minor issue.  I’m fairly certain that I want indoor plumbing in my dream house.
We drove out and looked at the 12 acre piece again.  What would […]

Stephanie “tagged” me a while back, so now I’m supposed to post ten things you may not know about me.  Given this blog’s topic, I am twisting it to ten things about our house-to-be.

Nothing is happening with the house building/land hunting right now. OK, you could probably guess that reading between the lines (or lack thereof) here. […]