Getting Started - Finally!

Well, after over a year's delay (19 months but who's counting...) we're finally getting underway on building our retirement cottage on our 3 acres, which we've named 'Brigid's Wood'.

We'd been able to do a few things while waiting for the bureaucracy to do its thing, so the house site was cleared, drive put in, septic dug and the footing dug and concrete poured in it. But recent rains left some sediment and mud on the footing so today we cleaned that up and set up the forms in anticipation of pouring the stem-wall in the next week or so. It was slow going and we're out of shape, but most of it was done.

The most important thing was that the bureaucracy gods are appeased and we can begin building.

So what follows is: The Adventures of Brigid's Wood!