We are scrambling in the planning stage of building our house on the homestead in Nevada. We learned last week that in the county we are building in, we HAVE to build a garage! We were planning to wait for later to build a large garage/shop. Now we’ll be building a small garage along with the house and we’ll build the large one later. Just one more expense. Well, you can’t have too many outbuildings, right? 🙂

I talked to the power company this week to see just how much it would cost to bring in power. We were going off the assumption that it would be just the same or even cheaper to do solar than to bring in power. But our information was about a decade old. So we’ve been doing our research and turns out we were correct. Whew! At least that was as we expected.

This week I’ve been calling the building department and the health department and the planning department and every other department they might have to get the final information we need. Hopefully in the next couple of days we will be able to dig our test trench for our septic system and once we have the results from that we can submit our plans for our permit. But in order to make that happen, I have to coordinate schedules with my dad in Reno so I can rent a backhoe, have it delivered to the property, he can dig the trench, we can order the inspection, and then back fill the trench.

Oy, I’m going crazy. Things would be so much simpler if we lived there. But it is what it is. And it is actually an exciting time. Things are actually happening!

Next time I’m feeling overwhelmed, I just need to remember that. It IS exciting. And we are so blessed to be able to build our own house. And one day in the not-too-distant future, we’ll be living in that house on our very own homestead. Exciting indeed!

Maridy

“I lift up my eyes to the hills, where does my help come from? My help comes from the Lord, the maker of heaven and earth.” Psalm 121