Permits and lumber

Not too much progress to report on the house, physically speaking, at least. The biggest progress on the house was that I got my drain field and septic permit. Valarie at the Tennessee Department of Groundwater protection is absolutely amazing! She, by some miracle, was able to inspect my site the day I turned in the application, so I can go pick up the permit today! Thank you, Valarie, and I hope I spelled your name right!

I hope to get the rest of the necessary permits today, that way the excavation can start this week hopefully. I'll be sure to take plenty of pictures of that, since the hill will look a little different when they are done. One big change will happen since they will have to cut a path wide enough for the house to come up the hill.

The big story of the week was the lumber, though! Jeremiah and I had cut down a bunch of dead trees and gotten all the logs together. (I'll do another post on that in a couple days - we had some big logs!) We had Mark Hinds from East Tennessee Sawmill Company come out and cut them up. This is back breaking work for anyone who has never done this before. I don't have time for a whole synopsis right now, but I'll tell more about this in a later post.

'Til next time.

BBK