More of the same...

Here are some more photos for you. Enjoy!

Sage noticed a kitten sitting in his cart and had to go push it around. Just so you know, this scene lasted an entire 2/5 of a second. Good thing I was ready!

Upside down!!!!!!

(Amy took this one)

Just 5 Pictures

Here are 5 photos taken in the past little while - 3 of Sage, 1 of a mountain meadow on an afternoon drive up into the High Country above Bass Lake, and one of one of our kittens (aptly named White Shoulders)

I've been thinking that it's time to create something of a photo gallery for myself - so I'm going to start throwing together some PHP code to make it happen. I'll let you know when I get anywhere.

Update

In the last post, we mentioned that we were going to wait until we had an offer accepted before posting our plans. Seems we should have listened to logic. The land was listed at $91,000 - we offered $80,000, expecting to settle somewhere around $85,000 which was what we had in the budget for the land. The offer also required detailed info on the feasibility and cost of a septic system - we had budgeted $6,000, as originally stated by the seller. The counter offer was $91,000, with no given information about the septic. We did hear from our contractor that the septic options were so limited on that property that an engineered septic would likely be the only feasible option - at a cost of at least $30,000. So with the additional cost of the land + the additional cost of the septic totalling at least $30,000, we just can't make it work.

So that is where we stand - it was certainly a nice dream while it lasted.

Big Big News!

For the last couple of months we have been looking into buying some property and building a very unique type of house. Well, we've found our property, we've found our house, we've gotten pre-approved for a construction loan. And tomorrow we're putting in an offer (cross your fingers)! We were going to wait until we had an offer accepted before posting this, but we couldn't wait...and we've had a couple of desperate pleas for pictures. So here we go:

View of the building pad from the driveway

Looking down the driveway

The building pad from up on the hill, and a peek at our view

Just think: in a few months time you could be sitting on our deck looking at this view! Go make those airline reservations now!

Sun goes down, lights come on in the Central Valley.

We are getting a yurt! This is a custom-designed, wood-paneled, eco-friendly round house. It's built in pieces in Oregon and shipped to us on a semi truck, then we assemble it ourselves (with a little help from friends and family)! The company is Oregon Yurtworks

We're going pretty simple to begin with and getting a single-story, 31-ft diameter yurt. It will have an open-concept kitchen/living/dining room, a bathroom, bedroom, and loft. With the loft it will be about 1000 square feet.

This is what a wood-paneled yurt looks like from the outside:


And a couple interior shots:




Right now we're working on a website for Oregon Yurtworks to help us design our house. It will have all kinds of pictures and plans and details. We'll let you all know when it's up. Until then, wish us luck!

P.S. We realize you've had NO new pictures of Sage in months. We're very sorry about this. We've been very busy. So here are a couple to tide you over and we will post more when we get the chance.