This week has been exhausting, so we’re easing back on our weekly Sunday morning post. We’ve been working intensely with our client work and also on our ongoing cabin build, which is physically demanding. This week in particular we dug a 3-foot-deep by 25-foot trench for the water line through a lot of hardpan (tightly compacted soil), shoveled gravel for a French drain we’re constructing, installed a 1,550 gallon water tank, and built an insulated box for the valve that lets the water from the cistern flow to the cabin. The insulated box was of particular urgency, as temperatures will drop into the teens this coming week and the purpose of the box is to prevent the valve from freezing.
Having never built a home before everything is new and requires research, inquiry, and planning. Fortunately, we are blessed with a number of neighbors who possess great knowledge and experience when it comes to building, and they are very generous with their wisdom. We live 70 miles from the nearest hardware store, so forgetting a little detail requires a lengthy trip to town. It’s all fun though. Kind of exciting actually, to know that we’re building the home that Maria and I will settle in and likely spend the remainder of our days in.
But today I’m mentally and physically depleted, so I’m just sharing these few words of update along with a photo of our progress, messy as it may look. It’s a little hard to tell that we’ve accomplished much, but there has been a great deal of planning that went into each of the steps. Interestingly, we find this work to be strangely like the brand strategy work we do, which is helping people build the foundations to their businesses. Thinking through the steps, planning ahead, being long-term minded, keeping the vision and purpose front of mind, and so on, whether it be for a physical structure, a business, or a life.
We’ll be back at it next week.
Blessings from Glenn & Maria
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