Week 2!!!!

Progress- we love it! We have running water (aka liquid gold), CLOSETS OH MY GOODNESS!  Such a luxury - even if you have to shake the clothes and check for bugs, scorpions, mice, etc before putting anything on - we cannot impress on you enough the joy of being able to locate a clean pair of underwear! Ha!

Our water pressure tank is operational (this means when we turn on a faucet, liquid gold comes out), our autofill works splendidly on the swamp cooler, we've rigged up a washing machine, clothesline and refrigerator. This is pure luxury people.

The most beautiful thing of all - bug bombs! They kill chiggers! We love them! We sheepishly admit to a hotel room for the weekend ostensibly to allow the bug bombs to do their magic!

All in all a great week and we look forward to building our solar array this week. Gravel and sod both arrive turning our little tent city into a virtual utopia.

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Our "home"  Two monster tents put together with plywood floors, swamp cooler, furniture, etc.



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Our favorite decoration!  Hard to tell but those are bomber size wasps entangled in the bug lines....what did we do last night, sat around and watched in fascination while a wasp tried to free itself.  It got an A for persistence...failed but still...



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Water lines, preparing for sod!  Yay!

A glimpse of our trailer havens....houses cannot arrive soon enough....but at least we have beds, AC, running water, etc.

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Soooo much still to do and our first house to build arrives July 16th - eeek!

 So....what have we learned this week? There is no shame in spending a much needed night or two in a hotel; chiggers can be killed; virtually any food can be cooked on a barbecue; there is indescribable satisfaction in progress; a $135 memory foam mattress from Costco is worth every penny...

 And...family is everything!

"Dreams are illustrations...from the book your soul is writing about you."

What a week but what great progress!  

A special thank you to our dear friends Joe and Maryanne for a VERY productive Sunday!