Mellow Day

We stayed last night at the Bush seniors, and have enjoyed having the computer to research directions and store hours and craigslist and such.

Phil met with the electrical guy this morning. We are hoping to get our bush hogging neighbor Butch to trench the electrical line from the box to our homestead site. That will cut the cost from $8.17 a foot, which adds up QUICKLY. (The wire will still cost about $2/ft, but that is more reasonable.) He has to get a permit even for a temporary power box, so that is a bit disappointing for him, but okay. It will probably be about two weeks or so until we have electricity.

The health department well guy said he needs a week or less for the permit; the well driller will need a week or two after that to drill. So we should have water in about two or three weeks.

He is meeting right now with the bulldozer dude, who will make our driveway and clear the pads for the two trailers (and hopefully for a trampoline for when the house sells). The bulldozer dude said that he thinks he can be done on Monday. Then our trailers will come on Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday, and we'll have a solid-sided, weather impermeable house. Yay!

Phil will be back in Colorado from Tuesday through the following Thursday night. We haven't heard anything from our agent since we went back on the market; the first two weeks are the most important when on the market, so I try not to panic.

We are hoping tomorrow to buy grass seeds and a broadcaster, so we can seed down our acreage and get good grass growing. I've looked at goats and pigs online; we'd like both soon, so maybe we will find fencing and such, and maybe we can get them while Phil is away. Once the trailers are in place, I hope to start the lasagna garden: we'll have plenty of boxes from unpacking, and our neighbor Butch will give/sell us hay when we need it. Maybe I'll bring in leaf mulch from the forest. We'll see how that works.

Maybe on Sunday we'll go to Scottsville Baptist Church, where Lottie Moon attended 100 years ago.

And Tuesday the boys and I will head to Richmond for the Sonlight Forums Central Virginia Pool Party. There'll be almost 100 people there. I'll hit Costco on the way back, I think, to stock up on tuna, raisins, peanut butter and such. Maybe diapers; I tried to do cloth, but I gave up. It's the one thing too much right now.