A 'HOLE' lot going on

Get it? HOLE lot?  Cause there's a hole...in the ground...on the lot...never mind!

We have been so busy with the land and I have thought of a zillion posts to write, and yet, I've not written a single one.  That's not very good!  I want to try to be better about this.

We began the paperwork to build this house back in November. After five long months, we finally closed and were ready to begin. Luckily for us, the weather was not particularly cooperative during that five months and our builder was ready for us when we were ready to begin!

We met with the builder at the site to stake out the house. 

Luckily, the builder sees things my way, so we were able to angle the house a little more in the direction I had wanted to begin with! :)

The following day, we broke ground!  So exciting! Both Tim and I had to work that day, but our wonderful builder took a moment to snap a few photos and texted them to me!

I managed to run out to the property Friday after work (Tim had been out there most of the day) and got to see our basement...sort of! I hadn't anticipated it to be so much of a walk-out. I had thought we'd just have a door (dug out with steps) but our land is so hilly that we ended up with a regular walk-out. 

Today we spent a good amount of time researching our primary heating option. We have decided to go with a Central Boiler heating system.  

We will still have a regular furnace, but we will use this as our primary heat source. We will be able to have radiant heat in the floors of the basement and it will run through our furnace on the main floor. Not sure we're going to bother adding another line to the upstairs, as we prefer it cooler upstairs anyway. This system will also heat the water for our home, which is neat.  We have so much firewood already, and with all the trees we have on our property, keeping enough firewood will not be an issue! We always 'lose' some to the storms and/or ice in the winter, and there is also general maintenance of the wooded areas on the place.  Essentially, the system works somewhat like a geothermal unit, but for a fraction of the cost (and does not do any cooling).

There is, of course, a whole lot more to write, but I'm pretty tired and have quite a number of things to finish!