House stuff is going well. I can’t tell you how nice it is to have lights in the house!! I’ve even felt a little like cooking again (I lost all interest in cooking when we moved into the little house with the 4×2 kitchen). Toby should have all the block laid today. Then the foundation process starts (gravel, plumbing, laying radiant floor tubes, pouring the concrete, etc…) Very Exciting!
Guess what I did yesterday???
I made Bread!!
With my Bread machine!
Which requires electricity!!
OH YEAHH!!
We have electricity! After 10 months living without electricity, we are finally wired up! (not to solar, unfortunately. But we will get there!) We have a pole out at the new house site so that we can run our electric tools and equipment. So, Toby wired the cabin for a few lights and outlets! It’s so nice only having to pull a string to turn the lights on! I can’t tell you how many times in the last 10 months I have mumbled to myself (or screamed out loud) “I am not a fucking pioneer!!” It’s amazing how different the house feels with lights (and the smell of bread baking)! Very exciting!!
Toby begins laying the block for some of the exterior (underground) walls tomorrow! We are expecting 50 and 60 degree weather this week!!
Well, we have the new footings poured… 30 feet from the old one. We have all the concrete blocks ready to go (north side wall), but the ground has been frozen, so we are on hold until it warms up a little.