I had been sick for a couple of weeks around Thanksgiving and have made a few major changes to my plan, so that's my poor excuse for not keeping up on here. Plus, a new dating relationship and church activities have kept me distracted.
The tree guy finally finished cutting most of the excessively tall/large trees from the wooded area and hauled them off. That procedure left a lot of mangled fences and piles of branches. So two weeks ago my dad and I cleared things out again and got started putting in some metal fence posts and stringing up the barbed wire. We're on the last leg of the fencing, which will total around 750-800 feet in length (we have about 150 ft left to do).
On bad weather days and evenings, I've been redesigning my house to accommodate a family of four, just in case my family size changes in the future. Instead of being around 300 square feet, we're looking at around 700 sq ft. The newest plan is two full stories, with two upstairs bedrooms and a full bath downstairs. There is a spiral staircase connecting the floors. The exterior would have more of a traditional farmhouse look with a wrap around porch on all sides except the north. I'll try and post some updated plans and some pictures of the fencing in the next few days.
A couple of other house decisions that I've made recently are to abandon the idea of using a wood cookstove as a water heater and to hold off putting in a solar water heater. I'll just use a 28 gallon electric water heater. The reason for not using the stove for hot water came after much (much!) research and realizing that it was going to have a lot of maintenance and safety issues, not to mention being complicated to design and install (I still plan to use that wood cookstove for cooking and heating though!). I may put in a solar water heater eventually, but I'm leaving it out now to save on initial cost.
Well that's about all the news for now. Pictures to come soon!
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