Day 1

Driveway extension? Check.

Basement hole? Check.

This is exhausting!

FarMin a Home: The Beginning (kind of) March 3, 2012

Tomorrow The Build breaks ground. Our excavator is arriving at approximately 0800 with his caravan (or however they come?). Tonight we're wondering if we're ready.

Too late!

Here's our site. From the drive, looking north, see the electric box, then the tree stumps on the ground, and then the openish white area?

The white area - that's where the house is going (hopefully) with the tall side facing the entry from the woods/pasture (south).

A closer view:

And looking from the barn:

You see how our drives look like huge mud pits?

Just wait until tomorrow...

FarMin a Home

We closed on our construction loan this week, with digging scheduled to begin Monday. I thought, before we run out to a fundraiser Bball game (go T!) that I'd share some plans with you.

Here's the south elevation. We've chosen a shed style roof to take advantage of our south facing orientation. The picture below will explain the way the house will look from the west side (which will face the wooded area/driveway), and from the front (which will face the south, and will be the "tall wall").

And the main level floor layout. It's pretty straightforward and simple, nice and open. There will be a balcony, accessible from the girls' room, above the hallway. The balcony will be open on the great room side, allowing me to supervise (listen in) on the kids playing above.

We are employing other "oddities" in this home - infloor heat, polished concrete floors throughout the main level, and whatever whimsies cross our way.

Gotta run, take care!

My Little Hams

A week ago Sunday A decided to turn rockstar on me. K tolerated the photo session...always true to their personalities.

FarMin an Address

Before Christmas my dad stamped out (? fabricated? created?) really awesome address numbers for the FarM. Our intention was to mount them on our entry gate for a really cool announcement that YoU! have arrived at the FarM. We finally got around to setting them up, probably a week ago. The girls helped, as always.

T stood precariously on the back of the truck to nail the board into place.

And the finished product...Needless to say, we didn't take into full consideration the effect that the evening sun will have on our metallic numbers. But, for times other than evening, they RoCk!

In other news, the girls have started swimming lessons. They love it and want to return every day. Pictures coming soon...

I've started knitting for the boy coming soon also. I finished this set over the weekend, it's the first time I knit a full set of clothing...now to see if it all fits at the same time! (because seriously, that would be a miracle.)

I also finished some cargo shorties with cables. The pocket was T's awesome idea (and a great way to hide the fact that yes, I have attention issues and difficulty cabling). I hope these fit into summer, they seem a bit small. But if they don't, I'll just knit another pair! The color fits great with a couple of shirts/jackets I picked up for him.

So that's about it. Our house plans are 98% firmed up, just waiting on the last big set to be completed. We're super excited and will share as soon as I figure out how to save a PDF as a jpeg. Won't be difficult, I know, but I'm pregnant, the girls are napping, and I'm going to go rest as well. Until next time...Adios Amigos!