Well, Well, Well, What Do We Have Here?

Um, okay, it really is a well.  Though we really wanted to go with a rainwater collection setup, costs and immediate need for water dictated otherwise.  Perhaps we'll end up with a hybrid system later on.

The well went in about the time the drain lines were put in the slab, you can see the drill towering off in the distance in this image from a previous post.

The final depth was 535 feet.

Foundations Part 2

The slab is poured.

View of the future driveway/parking and of the NW corner part of the house.  The dark line in the slab just to the left of the tree is where the front porch will be.

View of the W side of home, the master suite location, left corner is shower, area to the left of white pipe in foreground is bath, right corner section is bedroom.  Left side of slab is front of home, facing N.

Profile view of back porch, the sunken area of slab.  We etched our initials, names, year, last name, rank and serial numbers in the foreground corner of the back porch.

Jess trying to imagine her future sanctuary.

Slab forms come down and slab is considered done!

Foundations Part 1

Truckloads of sand dumped in for the foundation.

Drain lines getting installed.

Drain lines done.

Black plastic laid down and slab channels created.

Excited about the progress and for what's to come!

Here we go!

So things are really happening out at the ol' place.

Finalized the closing of the construction last Wednesday and we are off and running!  The day before closing, the land was cleared for the home site, and the day after closing we now have a port-o-potty and the slab forms are up!

I guess it's been awhile since any regular posting here, but things have been rather hectic and finding the time to post has proven difficult.  Okay, it's probably just laziness, but procrastination has always been my strong suit. 

We found a designer/builder whom has been a tremendous help getting us to this point by either being patient, reassuring, or understanding.  We finally nailed down a floor plan that seems to work for us and after what seemed like forever, he's in the process of making it happen.

A follow up to our wildlife valuation, Texas Parks and Wildlife Dept (TPWD) had completed their evaluation and sent it to us the first of January.  I setup a time to meet with the county appraiser back in February so I could turn in the paperwork and hopefully get the property under wildlife valuation.  He said that he had hundreds to go through and that he was the only one processing them so the response may be as late as April.  Still waiting.