August 2011
December 2011
We are now 18 months since our first meeting with the architect to get started on our retirement home. The original plan was to get started with construction early this summer and have the cabin "dried in" by the fall. Alas, one problem after another ensued. The first bank bailed on us. We didn't realized that you can't build 2 houses on one 9 acre lot, so that led to surveys, appraisers, bankers, lawyers, title companies, etc., to split the property, and a new bank that we are still negotiating with. We started construction with financing from the "Hip Pocket National Bank". We got the walls up, but when we went to put up the logs for our charming rustic exposed beam ceiling, there were no logs available anywhere in the U.S.! Four months and thousands of dollars later we managed to get some logs from Canada. Then the weather turned bad with snow and sub-freezing temps in the high country. Maybe a roof finally next week???
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