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Sadly, this counts as progress…

Fairly quiet week on the home front.  Lots of questions from the contractors (e.g “Are the cabinets in the MBR with or without doors?“), but overall fairly uneventful. With one small exception. Our comrades at Fairpoint informed us that the…

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We have never lived in the former Soviet Union…

We have never lived in the former Soviet Union. But Debbie likes thrillers from that time period and Steve had to read Nabakov at Bates, so we believe we’re eminently qualified to make the following statement : The individuals running Central Maine…

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“That was today?”

Central Maine Power kills me.  Today’s appointment was at 10:30 am.  Review the site, discuss options for getting power, etc.  We’d like to get a sense as to the financial commitment involved in getting electricity to the site before our due…

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Electricity

On her third try, Deb has finally made contact with the right person in the CMP office and we’re now scheduled for a site visit on 8/30. The word from the assorted contractors is that CMP’s field engineers are great,…

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“Have you thought about electricity?”

We’ve driven, biked and run past the property thousands of times.  And over the last few weeks, we’ve trooped over every square inch of its 30 acres.   But it wasn’t until a local builder — and the third one to…

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