From Dirt to Dream...and everything in between

Sep 15, 2016

A Giant Weight has been Lifted!

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After 2 short days on the market, we have sold our temporary house! What a relief!  We actually had multiple offers and ended up choosing th...
Sep 4, 2016

A new dream... That involves even more dirt!

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We have abandoned ship. Aborted the mission. Given up. The Upper Thames River Conservation Authority has won.  We will NOT be building our ...
Jul 20, 2016

Temporary Solutions

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I am pleased to announce that Jake is happy with the house "we" picked to live in for the next year! Yay! By the time he got home ...
Jul 13, 2016

Hurry Up & Wait

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The blog has been pretty quiet these days, but we certainly haven't been! I'm just going to give a quick update on where we're a...
Jun 9, 2016

Step 1 is STRESSFUL!

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Building a new house is a lot of chicken before the egg scenarios. But first let me tell you a little bit about the place we'd like to c...
May 17, 2016

Oh boy... Here we go again!!!

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Well... Remember in my last post I had mentioned we wanted to be 100% finished this house by mid-May? There's a perfectly good reason fo...
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May 1, 2016

Finishing Touches... Finally!

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I wish I had about 8 months worth of work on the house to write about... But we've been moving at a snail's pace! Maybe even slower ...
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We're moving to the country, gonna eat a lot of peaches! Jake and Paula are building a house "from scratch". Try to keep up as we navigate self-contracting for the first time ever! The good, the bad, the ugly and the hopefully beautiful finished product!
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