As the leaves fall down
I have slacked off on the update these past 2 weeks, and now it is November. All sorts of things have been happening, and you didn't even know! The septic is now complete and we are waiting on the final inspection of that.
They also removed a couple of large trees and the stone wall in the area where the house is to go. In the process they also removed the small trees, which is good. The stone walls on our land go deep. I remember when they started clearing for the septic field, they pushed the stone wall off to one side, but there was still a whole bunch of stone underneath it. We have the same thing here under the house. I don't know if that has to be excavated and replaced with gravel or something, but I do know that if we need to build something with stone, we will not be at a loss!
We managed to buy a Kitchenaid double wall oven for about $750 from an overstock store down near where my parent's live - an oven that would probably run $1400 or so. They also have a GE gas cooktop that retails for like $400 for $170, so we are looking at that as well.
Finally, the well driller called last night. They will be drilling our well today or tomorrow. It's funny how everything just comes together at the same time. The good news is that now all we will have to focus on is cleaning up (and boy do we need to clean up!). We asked that all the wood and stone be left on the edges of the clearings and we would take care of it. This translates to pretty large piles of trees that have to be cut and stacked, and large amounts of rock that needs to be moved and stacked. I have a feeling that we will also need to construct a pole shed to store our wheelbarrows, since we have a whole winter of moving stuff ahead of us!
They also removed a couple of large trees and the stone wall in the area where the house is to go. In the process they also removed the small trees, which is good. The stone walls on our land go deep. I remember when they started clearing for the septic field, they pushed the stone wall off to one side, but there was still a whole bunch of stone underneath it. We have the same thing here under the house. I don't know if that has to be excavated and replaced with gravel or something, but I do know that if we need to build something with stone, we will not be at a loss!
We managed to buy a Kitchenaid double wall oven for about $750 from an overstock store down near where my parent's live - an oven that would probably run $1400 or so. They also have a GE gas cooktop that retails for like $400 for $170, so we are looking at that as well.
Finally, the well driller called last night. They will be drilling our well today or tomorrow. It's funny how everything just comes together at the same time. The good news is that now all we will have to focus on is cleaning up (and boy do we need to clean up!). We asked that all the wood and stone be left on the edges of the clearings and we would take care of it. This translates to pretty large piles of trees that have to be cut and stacked, and large amounts of rock that needs to be moved and stacked. I have a feeling that we will also need to construct a pole shed to store our wheelbarrows, since we have a whole winter of moving stuff ahead of us!
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