Power lines

Here is the route into the property I am building on. This is what delayed getting the culvert in. I think it is so funny that Bro and I were so worried about knocking trees onto the lines and then a couple of weeks later this storm broke the cross bars on two poles and had trees hung up in the lines all along the access roads to the well site!

 Of course if we had done this it would have cost us TONS of mulla, but since it was Mother Natures destruction we were off the hook.

Ice Storm

Here are a few pictures from our first real winter storm.

These are each from coming up over the hill from the north to south near H's pond.

Ice storm

I'm headed out to the property in a few minutes to check on things. Sammy was going to put in the culvert yesterday afternoon or this morning, but we had an ice storm, so I don't know if it was possible.
The neighbor is without water, power, and heat! She wants to stay there, though, and not go into town. I put a call in to the town to see what's up and found out they have a warming center at the grange and the senoir center.

Save $

Daughter sent me this cool link to an article on building a home.
http://realestate.msn.com/buying/Article_sm.aspx?cp-documentid=15304045>1=35000

Well

The well digger, Barry, left me a message yesterday saying he is going away until the 18th and then finishing up a well he already has started. Right after that he is coming to do mine! So by the third week or so in December he will be pounding it. Yeah! So it looks like my major Xmas present will be drinking water!

I am dreaming about M & M ['s]

Yummy, but no, not that kind...Eminem! Yes, the rapper. I dreamt that I was hanging out with him at Ma's and I may have been interviewing him, but it was very casual. There were other people around like friends and his family.

I asked him if he used MacSpeech Dictate when he wrote his memoir. He looked at me in disbelief (at that moment, he knew I knew and so did I) and it took a while for him to formulate words. He asked why I would think so and I told him because

1. he mentioned in his book that he doesn't like to read

2. the writing is as if he were speaking the words

3. lastly, because he is in the music world and musicians use CuBase

It would only be a natural transition for him to one day ask "isn't there a way I can digitize my voice the same way we digitize music from a keyboard in a program that turns it into key notes and turn my voice into editable text"?

Reasonable right? and yes, in my dream he confirmed my psychic notion.

I think I should really buy MacSpeech Dictate now. What do you think? I mean if Eminem uses it in my dream, then I should too.

Afterall, I am writing my memoir.

Nice surprise

Guess what welcomed me yesterday as I pulled up to the property?

It was wrapped around a stick right smack in the middle of the new entrance.

I believe it is a sign of things to come!

Fate.

Driveway

Here is another pic of the new roadway made for the well truck to access the well site.

Bro fun

Bro came home for Thanksgiving and it was one of the nicest ones I've had in a while. He and I played loggers in the woods for three days. He did all the chain sawing and I did 95% of the clearing.
You can see the last one with the huge root system he is cutting, that is by the swampy area, near the well site. Look to the left and see the long cleared roadway. This is what we were clearing for the well truck to get in.

Final well site

Yes, I have picked it, finally after weeks of torturing myself. I am confident now, that this is the right spot.
It is down by where the stream floods out (near the old goat field).

Deed

I need to get the deed form at the legal supply place, get two tax forms from the county clerks office, get survey, subdivision through the town, possible title search, pay Ma, and bring signed and notarized deed and the signed (buyer and seller) tax forms back to the county clerks office. I'll have to check and see if there is a filing fee. The county clerks office notifies the assessors office of the purchase.
This is what I will be doing during the cold winter months.

Relief

I finally chose the spot for the well. After careful (too careful) deliberation with myself, dreams, God, the trees, the fairies, snakes, and spiders in the woods, the dowsers, friends, and the well driller it has been decided.
Yeah!!!!!
Drum roll please...The lower spot! That is it. The first intersection of veins June and Betts selected two months ago wins!
Now that I have made the decision the torture is over. At least for this big decision. We'll see about the next one.
The well drillers contract has been sent back to him, signed, so we are getting close.