The first transport is away!

I emailed our proposed plans to FirstDay on Tuesday for perusal and so we can get moving on getting our final plans made. Now we await David's response. FirstDay seems to be wary of putting a masonry heater into the houses from what we have seen. I understand their reasons for concern. I guess some people have made plans to use a masonry heater and then been put off by the cost of a masonry heater. Others have put them in and tried to burn them like conventional woodstoves or fireplaces - all day. We have done our research on this, though, and it is definitely what we want. Also everything I have read shows that a masonry heater is an excellent compliment to a tightly insulated house, you just have to find the right small charge of wood for your house.

In other news, the septic contractor called this morning and told us stage I has passed inspection and that they are ordering our tank. That might be delivered tomorrow or early next week. I guess now is the time to put up a piece of wood with our number for delivery trucks. All of a sudden, this has gone from us paying some guys with machines to push things around on the property to actual construction! Suffice it to say that they also requested that we send them the next check. We will be heading up that way Saturday, and we'll put up our number and check out what is going on then.