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A House-Building Dream in our 60's - August 23

August 23, 2025

Day 1,422 of the Adventure


Are you NUTS? Yes, we've heard that from friends and even family members. Maybe we are. We are now 64 and 66 years old and a year ago this month, we started on the biggest "homestead" project so far. The building of our permanent house. Many of you know that we built a small cabin on our place about three years ago. Since then, we've been living here, enjoying life, gardening, getting other smaller projects done and planning for how we would approach house building. One year ago this week, we were removing trees from the house site. That progressed on to digging the basement which took us into the middle of September. 

Why start something like this at this point in our lives? It's not an easy question to answer. We've always talked about building a house of our own. Doing all the work ourselves. We probably have actually aged past the point where that made a lot of sense, but a bucket list goal is hard to just ignore. Yes, there's a lot of work, hard work involved, but.... there's also a lot of satisfaction. We're taking the time to add details to the process that many times would be ignored by contractors. We don't have to explain ourselves to anyone but ourselves about why we are doing one thing instead of another along the way. We are integrating so many unconventional systems like the dual solar plant/grid power option. A system that has already kept us powered close to a dozen times in our cabin due to local grid power outages. The heat will be a fascinating combination of sources as well...... when we get that far. In short, we are allowing ourselves the creativity of design that normally never happens. Rather than retrofit an existing, more normal home with all of this would be much more work than just building it all that way to start with. Maybe it's nothing more than an experiment in self-sufficient living and alternative construction. Whatever the reasons behind it, it's coming together and will be a source of pride when complete. 

Carry On

Adventure Quote: “The passion and excitement that I get from life, when immersed in studying something weird or unconventional, is amazing. It feels as though I’ve found a new toy to play with.” ― Robin S. Baker

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