Gary’s post: Evening post. It’s been almost 3 months since we left Seattle. Hard to believe that we’ve gone from living in a house in a residential neighborhood to rural living in a trailer. It’s definitely a night and day experience. To go to Costco, it’s 18 to 20 minutes and 20 miles in New Mexico. Seattle it was 18 minutes to go 12 miles. Crazy, crazy stuff. We’re settling in this life’s routine and finding that the weekends are busy. It’s similar to Seattle, but with a different focus. The house building is starting to move at a much faster pace in terms of getting organized ahead of the need. We’ve picked out appliances, now it’s about faucets, light switches, lighting and all the little things that go into making a house complete. We’ve still not focused on flooring, tile and countertops, but we’ll get there. We are working with a designer in Seattle to get a cabinet plan put together so we can get cabinets picked out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The hard part about all of this is that all the places we need to go are 8-5 working hours during the week. That makes it impossible for Wendy to attend as she only gets a 30-minute lunch break. We’ll have to make a bunch of appointments on a Friday and then pick out stuff. I’m thinking a couple of Fridays, and we can knock out the simple stuff like faucets, drain covers, shower fittings and get all of that ordered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Today was a routine day for us. Felt sorry for the dogs as they were in the trailer most of the day. Breakfast with Wendy’s brother, grocery shopping and then visited with Wendy’s dad and mother-in-law. Pretty tame. Looking forward to next weekend. We’re going riding in the Can-Am’s on some local trails and spend some time exploring the desert. Should be fun. Jaret will be here, so we’ll see how much drama that brings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tomorrow is back to the house building. Plumbers will be here to work on rough-in and we should see our electrician come out to put in conduit for in-floor outlets in the living room. We’ll have the discussion on how to power the house and get some temp power closer to the site (i.e. move a power pole 100 ft). Debating on pulling power from the shop to the house or doing another meter on the pole to the house with a separate 200-amp service. It’ll be cheaper to pull from the workshop meter but more useful to install another meter. I’ll have to weigh the cost versus benefit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I need to talk to our plumbers tomorrow about the supply plumbing. I’m thinking a manifold system where we have shutoffs for each part of the house on a supply manifold. I’ll see what they think about that concept.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Enough blogging, time for bed. I’ll blog more tomorrow. Have a good evening!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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