It's not carving

[Paul_Guraedy]

Sharon, having gone through the "building your own" drama; I do not envy you the immediate future. I do know the wonderful feeling of living in a home where you invested a lot of sweat equity. It took 3 years to build our house and I would not want to go through that again. But, now that it is finished and we are living in it (1 1/2 years now); WOW! Please, send more pictures and keep it going as a WIP.

[Thor]

I'm with Paul having just gone through the process of building. I know how much work and reward are in the process, and the relief of move-in day!
Keep us posted. You property looks beautiful and if you are as close to Keoma's place as it sounds,the photos of her place are breathtaking.
I've never been to California.
Thor
Thor

[oldbearx2]

Great looking place Sharon, like Paul and Thor, my wife and I also built our own. The rewards for outweigh the sometime grief. Keep the pics coming.

[Hi_Ho_Sliver]

Claude....you don'thave to hire anyone to fix your septic tank every year! Anyone with a septic tank should put about a `1/2 pound of bakers yeast down the toilet twice a year....it creates the bacteria needed to eat up the solids......a septic tank is just about trouble free if taken care of....mainly, no kleenex type tissues...they don't dissolve like toilet paper and definitely...!!! NO cigarette butts! they do not deteriorate, they float and end up at the end of the leach field pipe(s) and plug them up! I have had septic tanks in every place we have ever owned but one. The only one we ever had to pump was one when we first moved in.....nice of them to leave us a full one huh?

[Joy]

Been there, done that....just slow down and enjoy the process as much as you can....cause there will be snags along the way.

Cliff, why do they call the electric poles hydro poles.....to me hydro means water?

[tnartist05]

Its like that song,You are almost there! Im proud for you Sharon and your husband and I know it will be so wonderfull when yall are there all settled in. Forrest.....thks for showing us~

[Dan Wegiel]

Sharon it looks like a beautiful and peaceful place. Seclusion is what my wife & I enjoy about our piece of the woods. Good luck with the move.

Dan

[susieq]

I am just green with envy...sitting down here in 90+ degrees and humidity....
I have hated living in Florida for over 40 years now. If I get to Tenn, that will be more than good enough for me.....but that is a beautiful setting you have there.

[Sharon of the Dell]

Thanks everyone for your wonderful words of encouragement! WE have a double wide mobile home we've had for 18 years that we're moving there, so at least we don't have to go through the building process. A couple of years ago our wiring caught fire in our house. It was a blessing in a weird way, because we found out we had alot of rot in part of the rim joists and studs. So if we would of tried pulling the house down the road it most certainly would have collasped. They don't make mobile homes to good. We put a new roof on last year because it was rotten.Thank God my husband is a carpenter and knows how to fix things like that. By next spring the house should be ready to roll down the road! Our septic system passed inspection on Friday. Next step getting a well on the place.Well back to packing and going through 18 yrs. of stuff.

[TreeWizard]

Cliff, my Canadian friends also sit on a Chesterfield, and down here we smoke them. My Canadian friends smoke fags and, well I won't go there.