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

Friday, September 30, 2011

I Can Smell Water...

I can smell water...why you ask? Because it's been delayed for over a week because of the recent rains BUT they are drilling now.

The rig is in place and drilling to China! Actually, at $11 a foot it better not be that deep. Unofficial projections are in the 300-600 foot range...ouch!!!

I went up to see the progress and you can't stay near the thing for more than a couple of minutes because of the noise. I have ear plugs for my visit today.

This may not be a big deal to you but it is necessary so all the other stuff that needs to be done can be done. Final grading, footers, foundations, etc come next.

On another subject, I had a date last night. Jere came to visit from Raleigh and we had supper together. Oh, Jere is my friend from Raleigh who also has some land here. HE dropped by for a visit (HE isn't a SHE...had you all worried).

We're tooling around WJ running errands and showing Jere the sights.

More coming,
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