It's Official!

I haven't been ignoring you, it's just that nothing has been happening.

And then BAM.

We signed the closing documents yesterday!

We officially own the land!!

Now the fun can begin!

Josh and I were worried because it took SO LONG to get to this point.  We won't  have the site ready by the date on our contract - Feb 28.

Josh spoke with Kellie and then Lynn at Adair who both assured us that we can still move forward with this project, even though we won't have the site ready by the end of the month.

They were both very helpful and responsive to our concerns regarding price protection and Josh and I feel confident that we have made the right choice in choosing Adair. 

Now the fun can begin!!!

Whoo hoo!!

We drove out last weekend and took a look at the finished shared driveway.

Our shared driveway is quite long.  The driveway meets the road just past the white truck.

After it turns north, it follows the adjacent lot's property line before entering our property at the southeast corner of our lot.

 

The van is parked where the shared driveway enters our property. 

The turn from the shared driveway onto our property is a bit sharp.  We're mildly concerned aout 50' trucks making the turn...

We staked out where we want our driveway to be. 

The stakes are a bit hard to see... 

We met with Jeff, our excavator to talk about how the driveway was going to cross the drainage ditch - which we are calling a creek.  (hey, it does have water in it.)

We talked about how the pad was going to be built, because our site is sloped.

We also talked about how we are going to get power to the well for construction.

if we need to get power.

We have a flowing artisian well!

That means that water comes out without a pump!

Totally nifty!

I turned the facet all the way open.

Plenty of water!

We're hoping that there's enough pressure to satisfy the needs of the construction team.

It would save us a bit of money and work if we didn't have to run power all the way to it before the house was up.

Hmm, let see what else...

The loan should fund by the end of the week, then we'll receive our draw sheet and we can get started on our OTDs!!!

Here's the view from the southeast corner.

I'm hoping to take pictures from this spot throughout the process. 

I'm totally excited and have to remember that I still need to be patient.

They're forecasting snow on the valley floor tomorrow and Friday. 

snow is not conducive to dirt moving.