Frame
Building a house is exhausting! Add to the mix: raising a family, looking after animals and vegies, trying to improve the property, running a business and teaching, and you are wanting to go to bed at 7pm. Yesterday we finished the internal framing. This was a very exciting occasion. We can now walk around the […]
Joys
Yet another stage of the build is over and another begins. Today we completed the ringbeam phase. All the ringbeams are now raised, meaning we can go onto order the trusses, which we will do tomorrow. I have made a video diary of the first and last beam-raising. The fist beam took over an hour […]
So much!
A family affair: building a house as a family is a great adventure! One of the reasons I have not written a post is that SO MUCH is going on! My dear friend Tania (hello, Tangles) keeps reminding me to update this blog, so here goes! (I think Tania should have her own blog – […]
positive post
The loss of the cobb; the slow inevitable draining of the dams; old batteries that aren’t recharging well (thus, a lack of power) are things that make us realise the difficulty we have put ourselves into. Some days are indeed difficult – but wwhose life is easy? We try to focus on the positives: an […]
Post #100
Yay! We celebrate post #100 with a few exciting details on our progress at Fangorn! Firstly, the title (“Post”) is quite fitting today as today is the day we’re expecting to raise our first house post! It will be a two-man effort (or at least one man and one woman), with the posts being very […]
Ten Years
Monte and I got married ten years ago! Our wedding day: Feb 6 1999 Monte’s father wrote a beautiful poem for us, which left us both speechless! The Foundation – by Gordon Goulding The foundation is laid! Ten years of loving care Locked into place with steel Meshed with memories and ties Of firm and […]
The Slab and other goodies
There’s a great deal going on so it’s hard to work out what to report on first! I choose to report on the slab. Here is a photo of our children running along on the slab (looking north-east). We were out one sunny morning to water it down so it didn’t dry out and then […]
Concrete and Septic
We’re really excited that we now have a concrete slab! It was 0630 on a cold, wet and foggy Monday morning when the concreters arrived with a pump truck, and throughout the morning 9 concrete trucks made it up our hilly driveways and the slab was made! It took an entire morning to pour the […]
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