Sunday, October 28, 2007

Our new blog

Welcome to our blog. We have set up this page to share our news with our family and friends as we go about building our house in the hills. It is almost 3 years to the day that we signed the contract of sale on this land. It has been a slow and sometimes frustrating journey towards puttting in that first stump but it is almost about to happen. We have renovated and sold our old home, moved into three different rentals, moved the kids to a new area and a new school, put in masses of paperwork including planning applications, building applications, septic applications, wildfire management reports, tree reports, house plans, site plans, energy ratings, soil reports, engineering reports, insurance applications and finance applications. We have waited an awful lot, learnt an awful lot and finally we are here. Our building permit should be issued tomorrow, our extra finance should come through this week and we can start!
The first job is to build some retaining walls as our building area is bordered by some large cuts in the land. We have bought our own bobcat to do our clearing and some excavating. We decided it would be more cost efficient to have our own and we can sell it at the end of the project if we need to. I will post some photos of the block soon. Stay tuned for the exciting news that we have put in those stumps! Love Jodie.