Things are pretty hectic around here, spending oodles of petrodollars driving around, gathering together the various odds and ends for the house and securing permits. Neither of us have much time for this silly box, doing more sleeping and eating than typing. Even if I could pull a string, I'd be too tired to try between therapy and the "project". Still, got a few pics for those that were requesting them, for what they're worth.
This first one is looking northeast toward Willcox from the front porch a week ago, across the vacant side of the property where the new house will be placed.
Next, looking back 180-degrees toward the old house (southwest), from about where the new house will be:
Today, base fill was brought in for building the foundation pad to be watered and tamped down, as the house will arrive Thursday. Here's looking from the front porch again:
Looking back toward the old homestead again, the pad laid out with stakes:
Different angle, looking southeast toward the highway and the distant Chiricahua Mountains, of the pad to be built up and finished tomorrow:
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Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 12:05 pm Post subject:
Nice to see a bit of progression Steve, love seeing seeing pics from your little corner of the world, what I'd give to in a place like that
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Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 11:27 pm Post subject:
Great pictures Steve
Its hard to believe how much room you have between the old and new house
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Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 11:56 pm Post subject:
Liam wrote:
Nice to see a bit of progression Steve, love seeing seeing pics from your little corner of the world, what I'd give to in a place like that
Oooh... I'd love it... you can call me a hermit all you want... but somewhere in the middle of nowhere, with just me and maybe one or two others (got to have someone to go to the pub with) would be idilic!
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Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 2:43 pm Post subject:
Nice to see things on the go Steve. Thanks for the pics. I am looking forward to the continuing building
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Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 3:07 pm Post subject:
Yeah well, I guess Kathy and I are both hermits at heart. The bad aspects of city life made us leery of crowds, five acres was a good deal. Arizona is so spread out that you can't get to anything without driving a while, so you can pick where you like to set down roots. We prefer a little room around us anyway, keeps the whims of neighbors from becoming a bore. The new place is scheduled to arrive sometime today, hopefully, may have something more later.
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Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 3:16 pm Post subject:
The house arrived yesterday afternoon, in the customary two halves. After fishing the telephone/cable lines up and over each trailer, only took a few minutes to deposit the sections and sign some more paperwork. Glad it got here before the weekend, as we're expecting some wet weather Sunday/Monday, but nothing else will be done until sometime next week. This is the beginning of a long month (hopefully) of final construction, water well-drilling, propane gas tank installed, electrical hook-ups, septic tank digging, etc. Then the real fun begins with the actual move, ugh!
Starting the delicate process of backing onto the lot:
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Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 6:05 pm Post subject:
Great pics... looks fantastic!
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Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 7:43 pm Post subject:
Great to see Steve Thanks for getting all the pictures I know you must have been busy at the time
Hope all the things you have to do now go well for you
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Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 10:51 pm Post subject: slightly ot
Steve,
we have just been having a bit of a discussion, about your new house and the terrain in which you live. I hope you don't mind me asking a question?
We come from a country where precipitation pretty much rules everything we do and as such we have lawns and greenery pretty much everywhere.
So what do Arizonans do for lawns? Do you just not bother and accept it? Do you try and propagate something to park your deck chair on whilst waiting for the bar b q to char your steaks? Or is it an astroturf and pot plant affair.
We love the thought of 5 acres to call your own, the freedom that it brings and the sheer vastness of the plains but we aren't sure we could do without our bit of green?
all the best
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Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2008 4:55 am Post subject:
Good question Ratty I too love the idea of living Arizona stylie but am also fond on my green bits
Don't worry about the pics Steve, we've got plenty of room and its great to watch the progress, I am a bit of a house building voyeur thanks to Grand Designs http://www.channel4.com/4homes/ontv/grand-designs/
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Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2008 4:06 pm Post subject:
Thanks Liam, wanted to make sure. Neat program, BTW, kinda like our This Old House over here. Can't hammer a nail myself, so I like watching it done right.
Very good question, guys, particularly out here in the dry sections of Arizona. Our first choice of living space was around Flagstaff, which is up in the northern mountains where they get a lot of snow and have actual pine forests, very much like the area of Kalifornia that we're from. Problems were with prices of property and distance from transplant medical support, so that left anything within a couple of hours' drive of Tucson, as we didn't want the negative aspects of living in town. Willcox won the draw because it had enough resources that we didn't have to make long expeditions very often. Goodbye, alas, to the Hobbit lifestyle.
However, you're all on the mark with the matter of greenery, in that it effects every facet of life here. Spring grass and fall colors are as vivid as they are fleeting, so people actually drive for hours to see them when they appear, and many go to enormous expense and trouble to have their plants and lawns. The desert's seeming lack of color in general is probably why Southwestern decor and Indian culture are so obsessed with bright colors of any kind.
Of course, the green islands and swimming pools of urban sprawl are beginning to go out of fashion now that the population is growing exponentially and water is becoming a limiting factor in that growth. We see all the solutions you've mentioned, depends on finances and the dwelling one lives in; apartment living in the city certainly has its limits. A lot of developers and homeowners are taking a hint from the local river and stream environments now, so the trend is toward planting native desert trees like cottonwood and juniper, and putting in agave or other bush-like plants with gravel instead of grass. That's pretty much what we've done around the old trailer here, and hope to do with the new house. We tried having an open vegetable garden, but it wasn't worth the trouble of battling the desert. The colors attract varmints like a sorority party. I'd like to put in a green-house some day, but that's a long way off at this point.
Go inside many homes, however, and the story is different. The most popular color is a light green, with art showing water and forest themes, or bright Spanish influences and Indian blankets. Small decorative fountains and tropical indoor plants are scattered about, and woods are rich, dark and heavy. Cowboy/Western themes with saddle blanket coloring are popular, as are Japanese contrasts and Zen-style minimalism. We like Asian schemes, so that's probably how we'll go. Got similar stuff in storage just waiting for an excuse to use them.
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The new place is scheduled to arrive sometime today, hopefully, may have something more later. 
The house arrived yesterday afternoon, in the customary two halves. After fishing the telephone/cable lines up and over each trailer, only took a few minutes to deposit the sections and sign some more paperwork. Glad it got here before the weekend, as we're expecting some wet weather Sunday/Monday, but nothing else will be done until sometime next week. This is the beginning of a long month (hopefully) of final construction, water well-drilling, propane gas tank installed, electrical hook-ups, septic tank digging, etc. Then the real fun begins with the actual move, ugh!
