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

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Starting to move and shake...

Things have slowed, on purpose, while I gather my workshop from around town and deliver the goods to the new workshop on Maple Tree. Can't really finish the interior of the cabin without the proper tools.

I say, "from around town" because we have two storage locations rented to hold all of our 'stuff'. We're renting a 1000 sf building that holds most of our 'life'. You know, furniture, dishes, doilies (they are named after an early 18th century dry goods dealer on London’s Strand), junk, lots of the boy's stuff, etc., etc.

What we couldn't fit into the first building ended up in a 10' x 15' storage unit nearby the first place. I'm doing my best to close out this storage space and just have one place so as to save a few bucks a month.


Tim will be back tomorrow to help with the deck struts. The struts are required by code to prevent the deck and porch from swaying in the wind and falling down. I wish agencies would STOP trying to protect me. Maybe I like swaying decks!


I snuck home (Raleigh) this past weekend to surprise Darlene AND check to see that no one has taken my place ;^). Boy were they surprised, I mean, she was surprised. It was so good to spend a few days with my main squeeze. Might do it more often...


More coming,
z

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