Building our dream home in the NC mountains

It's almost mid August 2011 and the love of my life and I are getting ready to begin a year long adventure building our dream cabin in the mountains of North Carolina. We're actually in Oregon, as we speak (8/11/11) wrapping up a glorious 10 day vacation with my wife's sister and brother-in-law at their cabin in the mountains.

Why the title "The Maple Tree Adventure"? Our property is on Maple Tree Lane at an elevation of 4200'...sounds like an adventure to us.

We've talked about this for a long time and now that it's a reality, we are excited to start the process. The process should take about 10 months. The build should be completed by next fall 2012.

Our goal is to offer up a blog entry daily. Some posts might include a photo, others may not. The adventure takes my wife and me in different directions for awhile. She teaches school and will finish out her career in June 2012 in Raleigh. I, on the other hand, will head to the mountains to get the cabin rolling in the next week or so (8/16/11).

Keep us in your prayers, leave your comments and plan to visit us next spring 2013.

Kent & Darlene
210 Maple Tree Lane
West Jefferson, NC 28694

(828) 406-4823

Saturday, August 27, 2011

From sheep shearing to organic meat

Great day in the mountains. Overcast but pleasant. Today is my catch-up day. You know, the day where all the loose ends fall.

I stopped by the farmer's market and to buy some organic meat from my meat lady and while there I was surprised to see a demonstration on sheep shearing. Actually, I given lots of thought to raising sheep in my spare time...at this pace, that would be in the year 2050.

The demonstration was really neat. A local sheep farmer brought some of his, shall we say, fatter sheep, to demonstrate how sheep shearing is done. Once he got that bad boy, I mean girl, on her haunches (butt... for you city folk) she became this docile animal open to whatever the farmer had in mind. He told us that once they are 'seated' they give up and the shearing begins. There may b e a human lesson in here somewhere...I'll report back!

I have some great shots of it, but forgot to bring my cable to transfer from the camera to the computer (I'm at the library making this post). I'll add the photo the next time I'm in town with the cable.

I'm heading to Boone to check out the grocery store Earth Fare. Gotta restock my organics for the week. I'll drop by Habitat's warehouse while in Boone to see what they might have that will help with our cabin.

Bare with me on these posts. I'm camping in a remote area of Ashe County and internet reception is sketchy.

More coming,
Z
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