Our homeschooling and home building story.
So we received an invoice last week for our septic system and we were like...huh...has that been done? So we took a morning and drove up to our property and yes! We have a new septic system! Yay! Sad news, we didn't know they were doing it so we didn't save our grape vines, raspberries... Continue Reading →
Progress stalled on our rebuilding project for a while because PID took twice as long to get us our fire-flow test as they had said. This last Wednesday they finally got the results to us. Yay! And we passed them on to our fire-sprinklers sub and to our architect. They are now getting those finishing... Continue Reading →
Tiny bits of progress made. We're still at the call the irrigation district weekly stage to make sure our fire-flow test happens. But we got some questions answered by our architect (like weather our balcony is strong enough for a hot tub), and we finally got our land use review back...our property is just fine... Continue Reading →
Life is a roller coaster. This week Caleb and I each had something to follow up on. He called the building department to follow up on our land use review as it's been the 6 weeks and we still haven't received it...and when we actually submitted our house plans (4 weeks ago) they had said... Continue Reading →
This week we have mostly made progress! Some progress required a ton of patience, see the above pic...but we made progress! The only setback was that the power pole was going to be put in Friday and, due to the rain, will instead go in next Monday...hopefully. On Monday, the kids and I were able... Continue Reading →
So we had been planning to submit our edited plans (as a 3 bedroom instead of 4 bedroom house) on Friday. We had the grandparents and uncle all lined up to come play with the kids while we did it. Our architect had said she would get the updated plans to us early in the... Continue Reading →
Two steps forward, one step back right? On Tuesday we got our plans and engineering documents printed. I also finally got in touch with our PG&E rep and found out that one of our neighbors had already done the 3 month wait for a tap line and so as soon as we have a temporary... Continue Reading →
After several weeks of nothing happening that we could see on our rebuild project, this week suddenly dumped a lot on us. We got an e-mail from our architect saying that she thought our plans would be ready for printing and submittal on Friday. That meant that we suddenly needed to apply for our fire... Continue Reading →
One year ago today...our whole world changed. Not only did our home burn but our entire town burned. We knew once we sat down to breakfast at 6:30 that there was a fire somewhere. Ari commented on the beautiful sunrise, and my husband I recognized it was caused by smoke. However he still headed off... Continue Reading →
Returning to Paradise 