Slow boring process

The next few weeks, or it might be months, will be slow progress. I am adding a floor to the current building. Our family is so busy with our current life that we only get a few hours a weekend to work on our next life. Even the pictures I have taken are boring so I won't be posting any of the inside of building 1, as it will be called, until the floor is 100%. I have drawn up a plan and will post it for all to see as soon as I can. Before too long I will also start posting random posts  that will pertain to the whole homesteading ideology. These will be "filler" posts and will also help understand my somewhat crazy ideas. Until next time. 

Thanks for reading!

Change of Plans

Once again, life gets in the way and the priorities get put in check. This means the homestead must be reevaluated and a plan can be carried out or trashed. A reasonable evaluation of my carpentry skills pointed out that I can build anything as long as I take my time. The main problem is I am not patient enough to do everything right. I tend to cut corners and these corners add up quickly. After building the beams, I added a few floor joists. These are what really pointed out my mistakes. So we took a step back and decided on another mode of acquiring shelter.

This building is going to become the basic starting point of our house. It is 16x24, built very solid, and it has a good roof already. The plan is to add another 600sf onto the front side of this to bring it to our minimum 1000sf that is required. I have already put down several floor joists inside, but I didn't get any pictures. Maybe next weekend.

Originally I planned on a weekly update because I thought that would be easy enough. Turns out that is a bit ambitious. I will update occasionally, I plan on weekly but cant make any promises.