This should answer any questions about why we want to have pygmy goats on our homestead...
Saturday, January 19, 2008
Saturday, January 12, 2008
some progress...
Saw Art today, and he said that the surveyors finally got out and surveyed the lot last week. It took them 3 months to come out and survey one acre, but only one day to send a bill.
Ugh.
We're going to see banks this coming week — hopefully they'll give us some real answers about how the loan process works. We've decided to cut the printing studio out of the plans for now; it looks like we're going to need to scale back the plans a bit in order to make building the house affordable.
Art also told us that now the county has decided to let us officially split the lot WITHOUT the road improvements. This seems to be 180 degrees from what they've been saying for the last 2 years. We still have to do the road improvements, but they're holding the building permits until the road improvements are made. This means that we should be able to put the road improvement costs ($17,000+) on our mortgage, but it may slow the initiation of the house building process.
Well, with the baby coming sooner than we realize, slowing down the house may not be a bad thing. A friend noted today that I seem really relaxed about things, and she thought it might be the pregnancy hormones. I think I'm just so tired of stressing out that I don't give a crap about a lot of things anymore.
Ugh.
We're going to see banks this coming week — hopefully they'll give us some real answers about how the loan process works. We've decided to cut the printing studio out of the plans for now; it looks like we're going to need to scale back the plans a bit in order to make building the house affordable.
Art also told us that now the county has decided to let us officially split the lot WITHOUT the road improvements. This seems to be 180 degrees from what they've been saying for the last 2 years. We still have to do the road improvements, but they're holding the building permits until the road improvements are made. This means that we should be able to put the road improvement costs ($17,000+) on our mortgage, but it may slow the initiation of the house building process.
Well, with the baby coming sooner than we realize, slowing down the house may not be a bad thing. A friend noted today that I seem really relaxed about things, and she thought it might be the pregnancy hormones. I think I'm just so tired of stressing out that I don't give a crap about a lot of things anymore.
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
backyard birdies
Well, we've moved. Not to the Blue Lake Bungalow, but we're slowly getting closer. We now are in a bigger, older, colder house in the big city, Eureka. These are just some of the birds that like the overgrown berry briars in the backyard. They really appreciate the seed we have been putting out at this time of year. They're kind of blurry, but there's a hummingbird there, and tons of goldfinches, house finches, pine siskins and miscellaneous sparrows.
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