I’ve spent a little time off the blog for fear of saying nasty words that should not be typed. But, now that I am feeling a little better, I shall vent.
Well, we finally got the soil engineer out there to take a look at the last footer that we needed to pour so that he could tell us to dig it a little wider so we could finish pouring. Well, he told up that we need to move the whole house!!!! Yep, that’s what he told us! The footer, it seems, is over old fill dirt that was never compacted correctly and we would have to build an enormous retaining wall if we wanted to keep the house in the same spot. It looks like it will be cheaper to just move the whole dang thing ~25 feet to the east. So, we keep going and will hopefully pour the footer (again) this week or next. Bye-bye bank account!
On another land front, I got a call from this guy who said he is under contract to buy 130 acres east and south of us and he plans on developing it. He wanted to know if we wanted to sell!! I have to say, I thought about it for a second, and then I remembered the promise that I made to this land to try to preserve it. So, I am trying to look on the bright side. Hopefully, he will build without tearing the mountains apart, we will get a good road to our house, and we will have some nice, new neighbors.
We all spent the night wide awake last night while kaia hallucinated through her high fever. She does that when she gets sick. She is totally fine one minute and then, BAM, she has a fever of 104! We put potato slices and some yarrow essential oil on her feet, which brought the fever down for a while. Then it went up again. I gave her some herbs and a tea, which brought it down for a while. Then it went up again. Finally, when she woke me up with her laughing at the “movie” (aka hallucination) she was watching on our window about a “tiny little flying black man who was stuck in glue and blueberry jelly”, I decided to pull out the motrin and knock it out for a few hours so she could get some sleep. She’s running around right now like nothing happened last night. Her immune system amazes me! Hopefully she is over the worst of it. I’m at the clinic right now getting some boneset and elder flower in case it happens again.
tiny man stuck in glue and blueberry jelly sounds like a childrens book idea to me!Poor girl. Hope all is well soon- withy her & the house.
Hey there! I saw your picture in the Mountain Express, and am looking forward to stopping by Viriditas sometime when we’re in the “big town”!
I hope Kaia’s feeling better.
Sorry about the house woes. I guess it’s better to have to move the house than to have the house move when you don’t expect it to because of improperly packed fill dirt, but still…the expense and trouble are frustrating, I’m sure!
I hope the surrounding development turns out to be something that will be done sustainably and mindfully and that you’ll have good neighbors with lots and lots of trees around them!
i hope kaia’s over her sickness now, poor thing.
ugh. housebuilding in america sucks. i hope that your able to get past this real quick. that would really piss me off!
hang in there. it will be done before you know it!
I hope your daughter is feeling better.
Hopefully the developer won’t eliminate the natural beauty of the place.
I hope Kaia got over what her body was fighting. It’s so distressing to see your child sick!
Everything happens for a reason! It sure is upsetting to have to move the house, but better now than having the house collapse on you later on…. And money is just temporary anyway! 😉
I sure hope things turn brighter soon….