I’ll have periodic updates as I continue to carry out my three year plan. As of July 2007, this has been done:<\/p>\n
— Land search commenced, summer 2004<\/p>\n
— Made offer on land, January 2005<\/p>\n
— Closed on land, March 2005<\/p>\n
— Bought blueprints for house, November 2005<\/p>\n
— Bought trailer, October 2005<\/p>\n
— Drilled well, May 2006<\/p>\n
Here is the timeline for the remaining work:<\/p>\n
— February 2008: rough-clear driveway and clear access to septic area. Install septic tank. Bring in temporary power. Build wellhouse. Install pump in well.<\/p>\n
— March 2008: Bring trailer out to the land and hook it up to water and septic. Clear garden area and build garden fence for deer protection. Improve driveway and culvert.<\/p>\n
— Spring of 2008: Negotiate contracts for foundation, framing, roofing, and exterior. Begin construction May or June of 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’ll have periodic updates as I continue to carry out my three year plan. As of July 2007, this has been done: — Land search commenced, summer 2004 — Made offer on land, January 2005 — Closed on land, March 2005 — Bought blueprints for house, November 2005 — Bought trailer, October 2005 — Drilled … Continue reading “Periodic updates”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-house","category-the-land"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}