Shiloh

Let me tell you about my better half. She is the reason why I am building this house. She was the one who came across the Log Home Builders Association site. She is doing at least half the work. Probably more.

We had been wanting to build a kit log home for some time — I recently came across a copy of Log Home Living magazine that we had bought in 1998. It was fortunate that, at the time, we didn’t have the money to buy a kit home.

Now that we have the resources, we have the right information that we learned from the guys at LHBA. No kit homes for us!! It’s more fun, cheaper and you end up with a better product doing it yourself.

But, I digress. She is simply amazing. Right now she is stuck on the property with (rain) water all over the place, no septic hookup, no Internet and no tap water because of a problem with the electrical hookup. In addition, there is no satellite TV to entertain the munchkins while they are cooped up. All in less than 300 sq feet  of living space with four children. She could go somewhere else and be comfortable . . but that is not her way. She will be there tomorrow morning when the people show up to fix the electricity, install the Internet and the satellite TV. She will probably finish the hookup of the septic tank to the trailer as well. Something that I am apparently not capable of doing.  (Talked to Rachel tonight – she fixed the septic earlier today)

And knowing her, she will start numbering our logs and measuring the diameters of the ends as well so we can figure out how we need to stack them.

So, we press on. I think we already have enough patience and perseverance. That isn’t what the problems are about. I suspect it is just because good things don’t come easily. And since we have never done this before we have to learn as we go along.

They say some people “marry up”. Well, I was the frog and I married the princess. Fortunately she has pulled me ahead more than I have pulled her back.  And my princess can both wear pink and swing a hammer.