Underway

OK, I'm not sure if this blog thing's going to work out. It'll be sporadic at best unless one of us gets completely into it. Computers take so much time, at least as much as they save. But at least it makes sharing stuff easy, so I'll try to keep it up to date.

We off and running, with the foundation dug Friday, the footings laid out and prepped Saturday, to be completed, inspected and poured on Monday.

I finished to geo thermal heat exchange field, and Hayward with Northwest Energy came by and we heat-fused all the loops in a manifold and ran the supply/return lines to the house. It is now charged with air and after the last of the backfill we'll just have to deal with the yard. What a mess, and now it's raining. It may have to be icky piles of mud until it's dry for weeks and I get another machine to push it around with.

We meet with the framer and lumber vendor this week with framing tenatively slated for April 6 start.

We're going to have a ground-breaking party, probably late April. Anybody reading this is invited. We'll also be doing lots of "work parties", where you can come by and wear most any hat you like. Learn with us how to wire, plumb, heat, paint, millwork or the myriad of other stuff that has to get done, eventually.

OK, I'm done for now. How about some pictures?