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

Thursday, August 25, 2011

Getting back to basics

I spent another wonderful day on the mountain. Got up about 5am with thoughts that I wasn't happy with the placement of the cabin on the property. I knew that we had the space to move the cabin up the hill more which would in turn create an even better view to the south.

Once I determined what the elevation should be (I have a nearby cabin to use as a reference) it was easy to move a few stakes. The importance of the position is two-fold. One reason being we have to have as close a location for the county to access it's position in relation to the septic system and two, our view will dramatically improve with the new location.

I ran the move by the experts and they all agreed that it was  a good move and wouldn't do anything but make it better.

I did run across a real deal in gasoline. I love the mountains. Unfortunately, the station that had the low gas prices, after close examination, appeared to be closed...for good! The story of my life.

All in all, today was a back to basics kind of day. Spending time with the land and then trying to buy gas at 2009 prices.

I couldn't get internet at the campground yesterday so there was no post. It happens!

More coming.
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