2013

Week starting 20th October – The next building problem, Lisa gets all British and mobile It was inevitable that “things” would arise to upset the smooth progress of our house build. The first holdup was the revised design of the lower floor to accommodate the steep slopes of the land. We discussed this with Mike Garrell, the […]

Week starting 13th October – Put out more flags, the walls are rising  This week we headed South to Monticello and Warner Robins in Middle Georgia for three days, to see Lisa’s family and friends down there, and tend to a few chores including some arrangements at Robins Federal Credit Union (the bank where Lisa has had

Week starting 6th October – Life in a Subdivision, Slow site progress, Foodie heaven & TV adverts Slow progress on buildingOne of the slightly frustrating things about most projects is that things don’t progress at a standard rate. Slow, slow, rush, rush. The best thing you can do in a slow period is to try to get

Week starting 29th September – A new month and more unpackingAt long last we are starting to have a bit of time to catch up with life as we don’t have a million appointments, bureaucrats and hassles to sort out. The biggest outstanding job is going through the dozens and dozens of anonymously labelled shipping boxes. We

Week starting 22nd September – Concrete Progress  The big house building challenge this week was to get the design of the lower floor modified so that passing bears can’t get into the storage areas and visitors don’t have a window showing nothing but Georgia clay. Previous readers may have noted that there was a terrible clash between

Week starting 15th September – A new home with furniture, digging to China, and architectural problems After nearly a month in the cabin in the woods, it was time to move onto something a little more permanent. We had to leave on Wednesday morning, but we couldn’t move into an unfurnished house without the furniture in our

Week starting 8th September – Legal at last – but where’s my stuff? Last week, I was suffering frustration over obtaining a driving licence. Since I am a resident of Georgia now, I have to get a valid driving licence within 30 days, and the clock is ticking. I went to the Department of Driver Services in

Week starting 1st September – Bureaucratic frustrations, Photographs and grey squirrels  Another busy week with one big frustration, but we are making more and more progress. On Sunday we moved from our prior homelessness to now being a two-house family – the lease on the unfurnished rental home starts officially on 1st September. So we need to

Week starting 25th August – Work starts on the land, and bureaucratic & medical successes Things have commenced in Dahlonega, Georgia 30533. We went out to inspect progress on cutting the driveway through the woods. Work only got underway on Friday, but Bill estimates that we are a third of the way to where the house will

Week starting 18th August – A Little Cabin in the Woods After our weekend in Villa Rica, time to get going again. First task was to drop off the giant Toyota hire car. Later on Monday, one of our two cars was delivered. We loaded up (including four boxes of wine sent from selected vineyards