November 25, 2016

Progress has been slow when it came to saving enough money to continue with our project. These past months have been the doldrums,no wind to propel us forward. The election took its toll, the phone wasn't ringing. But our Christmas lighting business has never failed us, and did not fail this time, so things are looking good all of the sudden.

We now have the money for our temporary trailer home, but the time to buy is not yet come. Now we have to find the right  trailer. Something that will double as a home while we build and then become something else. As we were waiting, we were looking. The amount we have budgeted should do the job well, but Craig's List is a hit and miss thing with plenty of people having time to post suspicious and false advertising. We will kiss frogs until we find our prince. . .

Having achieved this big goal, we have identified the next steps.

1. Build shelving into the shipping container so that we can begin moving the thousands of things out of our house. We will do this immediately because we have been collecting and packing boxes for months with no place for them to be while we pack more.
2. Build the fence at the front gate. This is a 75 x 50 foot enclosure where we will put the trailer and park the cars. It will have gates on all four sides and be leveled off using gravel. we can do this once we have saved the money.
3. Get the electricity permitted and installed. Then we will have water too. This is another money saving goal.
4. Buy the trailer and begin moving our family to the farm. We have the money for this today.

All of this should be done by mid-March, we hope to move in early-April with the dogs. Surprisingly, the money to do the renovation is already available, but with four dogs in the house it is silly to buy carpet and paint walls. With the half-million things in the house, everything is difficult.

Once moved we can renovate our house properly, sell it, and begin the building phase of our project in earnest. There is much to do and we are about one-third of the way there.

The goals have moved, but they are being achieved, one at a time.