Rain does not help you build houses!

Well, we are at a standstill as far as visible progress goes…still nothing but stakes in the ground. It has been raining every day or night for the past two weeks. Which hopefully will help make this summer a little better and more bearable, but does not contribute anything productive to my house!

We have been working behind the scenes a bit though. This morning A met with a representative from the electric company we will be switching to, and they have started working through the process of arranging new poles and lines and getting easements across neighbors, etc. I don’t anticipate any problems there, but according to A we will have a couple of different options. I hope it goes well…we don’t want any neighbor disputes this early! Well, ever, but definitely not before we’re even there to dispute with.

We have posted our current home on Craigslist and I linked to it on Facebook trying to get the word out. I emailed the local paper last night with information to post our house there. It’s hard to sell by ourselves just because when you google houses for sale in the area it only pulls homes that are listed with a realtor. Which we would like to avoid if possible. We may have to look into that down the road if we don’t make any progress. I don’t want 2 houses at once!

In other news, A and I are really missing setting up a garden this year. It just wasn’t feasible with the house building (once we get going, I’m sure it will take a ton of our time since we are planning to do so much ourselves), and with us possibly moving at any time if we sell our house. We really enjoy that process of working the soil and planning the placement of the plants and what type of plants to even get! We feel a little lost now because that’s what we are typically doing this time of year and our new house hasn’t started taking up our time yet. We are hoping to get a couple of big fertilizer tubs from Grandma to plant a single tomato plant, and maybe a pepper plant in – that way they will be portable! But we just haven’t gotten that done yet.

Yesterday I (FINALLY!) finished my “house book”. Which is actually two books – I took two 3 inch 3-ring binders and organized all our house materials brochures and ideas and tips and phone numbers and forms and paint chips and all that stuff. They are pretty cool if I say so myself, and I think they will be helpful when it comes to actually choosing and purchasing materials. Everything is now in one place and is portable – we will just have to decide which book we need and take it with us! I’m anticipating the collection of information shrinking as we eliminate products and that eventually I’ll have it down to one book. Which will be a very nice memento of this very complicated process we are navigating!