Trailer Living
Well, we’ve moved out of the (money sucking) rental and are finally located on our OWN property! Despite the minor inconvenience of the small living quarters, this location feels so much better. For one thing, it is warmer! The mornings are lovely and breezy and it warms up nicely in the afternoon.
Here is a picture of our trailer in the trees:
Trailer in the trees.
Cute, eh? It’s pretty crowded with John and I and the 2 boys but we’re learning to organize our movements so we aren’t always running into each other. The cats are in and out, they do what they want. The chihuahua is in charge of everything, and John has fenced off a yard area for the BBQ and the laundry and all – so Chico is able to go in and out without taking off into the woods.
So here we are!
Original text by Nanette Thorell 5/8/2008 (re-posted with minor edits)
Is Winter Finally Over?
It’s two days into Spring and already we (on the mountain) are warming up nicely. There is still some old snow stuck in the higher elevations among the tree shade, but Timberon snow is all melted away.
We have about a month left to go in this rental, I need to give notice next week and we should be out by the end of April, and in to the trailer. That will be a year since John broke ground on the house.
Since I last blogged: the propane is in and hooked up, we have a big new tank outside in the yard. The electrical is (still) almost finished. Maybe a couple more runs up the hill for our electrician – he lives down in Alamogordo.
Income is trickling in from my eBay business, an auto parts store. John bought some old shelf stock and we have been cleaning it up and selling it. Seems to be doing well, and we made out initial investment back quickly. Now it’s all gravy.
I did take some more pictures of the inside of the house and I will get them up on my nanbiz today. Not sure if I have a link here somewhere, but if I don’t, it’s at
www.nanbiz.net/loghome.html
Better get to that now . . .
Original text by Nanette Thorell 3/22/2008 (re-posted with minor edits)
Slacker Checking In
You know, I have such good intentions when I blog – gonna write something several times a week. Gonna document everything. Gonna be on top of it. Yeah, that’s the ticket.
So here it is February and my last entry was October? You may smack me now.
Arright. So we’re still in this rental home. Kind of expected to be in the log house by now, but of course, all the best laid plans . . . you know the drill.
The roof is almost on, but we had to stop when winter hit and everything became icy and slick. Didn’t want John sliding off the roof. So the Eagle panels with the Titanium covering are keeping any weather out. The back side is still unfinished. John and Birdman (resident helper) have been working on the inside. Running electrical w/an electrician contractor. Putting in the windows (the windows are REALLY nice – Andersens double paned argon filled), building the kitchen island, installing the bathtub and shower basins. Puttering. He did get the wood stove installed with the chimney and they have been running that the whole time, so it stays fairly warm in there during these cold days.
And now here we are at crunch time. We have limited funds left and we have to get out of this rental because it’s just taking money that we should be putting into the house. Today we bought a nice 5th wheel that we will stay in while we work on finishing the house. It’s going to be tight – with two teenagers – but it will be on-site, close to the house, on our OWN property and we can have close access to the house and will probably get things done much faster.
Lets hope so. Because if we thought this mobile home rental was small – just wait until we are 3 or 4 weeks into the trailer! That’s OK. Gotta do what we gotta do.
Original text by Nanette Thorell 2/4/2008 (re-posted with minor edits)