Temporary Home

Well, this last week has been very eventful. After waiting nearly two months longer than originally planned, the logger who was clearing the area for a future garage and dozing it level finally finished this past Saturday. He finished about ten in the morning and by about two in the afternoon I and my cousins were hauling into place the single wide trailer I had purchased a few years ago and had stored on another part of the property. It is only 12x40 with two very small bedrooms, full kitchen and living room and an actual roomy bathroom. It is old, but the inside was very well maintained. Their are a few cosmetic defects on the outside, but nothing that can't be repaired.

The plan is to live in this home while construction of the new home takes place. With my astute cousin, I have tied in the electrical, prepped the water (more on this in a future post) and leveled it. So far so good. My wife and I paid cash (on the cheap at that) for this trailer and so in essence, we not only own our property, but we own our home too which is very satisfying! There are many things to take care of yet. We have to spread gravel on the upper part of the driveway for parking, attach the deck and stairs and hook up the septic and sheet the trailer perimeter besides little things like start a lawn so we can enjoy a small yard of grass.

My beautiful wife spent a whole weekend just cleaning the house out, hand scrubbing the floors, walls and every nook and cranny, changing the water regularly. The place is spotless! We moved furniture in and found we had to really weed out much of our goods; finding minimalist is best when living in such a small space. I have put into a storage building we have some of the items we are not willing to part with, but other than that, two couches and a plethora of furniture went to better homes. I am sure this little abode set right next to our building site will serve us well for the next few years while we hammer away at building our house and wont have to worry about paying for rent in the big city. The only expense will be property taxes and utilities.