A Little Granola

We have a lot of work to do even before we start building. We need to come up with a floor plan that we like and is good enough for building permits. Oli needs to find a job, we need to sell our current house. We need to come up with somewhere to live while building, right now I think this will be our future workshop with a small bathroom, kitchenette and sleeping loft, which we will also need to build and get permits for. We need to get electricity to the site, for that we need a meter installed and likely a permit. We need a septic tank/drain field, for that we need a soil assessment and permits. We need water, for that we need a well and most likely permits. We will need to find a bank willing to loan us some money. We need to figure out where exactly the house is going to go. We need to figure out when we need to start cutting down trees.

It is a little daunting to see how much work has to be done before we even think about starting to build. Most of it will be money and skull sweat with a little bit of real sweat farther down the road. Then we must of course keep in mind the baby scheduled to arrive in July. Of course it is all complicated by being 1/4 of a mile plus from the next house, on a gravel road. Did I forget anything?