Look at me keeping my word and doing my weekly update to you!
Nate left last Monday and headed up to the land. I'm jealous, but I'm also not ready to live quite so rustically just yet. I want a few more bubble baths first (in the toxic chlorinated city water... maybe not).
Mud season seems to be fully underway. Nate says that the part of driveway we were able to upgrade to gravel is doing just fine, but the upper part which is just dirt is kind of a mess. He says my car won't make it (and I believe him). I also learned that our road is actually posted to trucks during mud season, so we can't get anything delivered until things dry out. Nate says that's starting to happen.
Our "pond" is a pond again, at least for right now. There are still a few tiny patches of snow around, but this is about as full as it's going to get for right now. We will keep an eye on it over the summer and see what it does.
We are all set to bathe! This will be our catch basin for our rudimentary sponge baths until we can get some sort of gravity fed shower set up. I can't wait for it to get warm enough to shower outside! We can put the water in a dark container and take hot gravity-fed showers! In the meantime, this will be good. This is where our actual shower will ultimately be, and the drain is the real drain.
Our first "crops" have sprouted! Nate planted a few garlic cloves last fall, and he says seven of them are up. So if nothing else, we will be able to ward off vampires.
And Nate has been very busy! He framed out our two interior walls (I love the open floor plan), and he built the stairs. They look amazing! I plan to build drawers into the bottom few steps, and I will create bookshelves under the upper flight and a little desk to create a writing nook. These are the things that excite me, even though I know that things like windows and insulation are more important. We'll get there. I do, however, like what I see. I can't wait to see it in person!
Nate hasn't just been working inside, either. He's put an extension on the woodshed roof so that we can add another row of pallets and stack more wood. It just occurred to me that when the woodshed is full of wood, I won't be able to hang out in there anymore. I'm going to need a Plan B.
And Bill is still around! Nate said he was right there, and somehow Bill managed to sneak by. Seems he doesn't have much appreciation for PBR spray foam art, although he has a healthy curiosity.
And just to give you an idea, this is how close the "art" was to the house when Bill checked it out. I have a feeling that one of these days, I'm going to turn around and walk smack into the moose. I hope he takes it well.
It's fun to know what's going on up there, but I'm ready to stop being a spectator and get into the action. The moving truck has been scheduled for May 2nd. I will be back where I belong in no time! In the meantime, there's plenty of good stuff going on here to keep me more than busy. Just sixteen more days!
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