18 October 2008

Chree received a bee keeper hat and veil for her birthday – protection against all biting flying insects. She loved it!!!!

15 October 2008

Met with Brad Ramsay (water and septic system design engineer) to discuss system design alternatives. Concluded in that meeting that the best option would be to have the leach field downhill from the house site. Drove down and got a copy of the Leicester zoning regulations from the Town Clerk's office. Lynne Pirkkanen (my incomparable sister who lives about 8 miles away in Salisbury) visited the property for the first time. Picnic lunch with Lynne and Alverta. Sid had Calvin Loven (a local handyman) clean out the boat shed and remove the Glassners’ firewood stack that was on our property. Completed taking rough elevation measurements, assisted by Alverta. Decided that having the leach field downhill from the house site would push the house too far back from the lake. Staked out the house location, a better septic leach field location just west of the north / south stone wall that nearly bifurcates the property (where we picnicked), and a rough driveway path. Met with Bob LaPorte (excavation contractor and classic Vermonter) to discuss site preparation and foundation excavation work.

14 October 2008

At the property all day taking more rough elevation measurements on a 20' x 10' grid, assisted by Alverta. Still some mosquitoes! A perfect fall day with a picnic lunch. Sid Glassner gave permission to run utility services under his driveway from the end-of-the-line telephone / electric pole on his property over to the future house site on our property. Told Sid that he was welcome to salvage the stairway and dock on our lot.