A House In A Field
The story of a house. In a field. And how it gets there.
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“Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other” – Trotsky
Even after all we’ve been through with Central Maine Power over the past 291 days, those crazy comrades in Augusta never cease to amaze us. Annoy us? Oh, yes. Perturb us? Absolutely. Yank out our rapidly greying hair in giant…
Read MoreA Ditch Filled With Optimism, Rainbows and Unicorn Smiles.
You probably can’t tell from where you’re sitting, but this ditch is overflowing with optimism, rainbows and unicorn smiles. Nine months — almost to the day — since our first call to Central Maine Power, we’re seemingly no closer to…
Read MoreWire on a pole.
Visited the site earlier in the week and were a bit surprised to see both guidelines and wire on our precious utility poles. We’ve since found out that it’s a Fairpoint telephone line. (Their call later that week asking if…
Read MoreFasterer and Fasterer
The installation of utility poles down Lower Mast Landing appears to have unlocked powers beyond our imagination. On Tuesday, we met another CMP field engineer to discuss the process of bringing the power line to the site. Measured the driveway…
Read MoreThe Department of Right of Ways
Lots of work happening in the background lately regarding contractor selection. But perhaps more significantly, Fairpoint told us today that our electricity permit has now been transferred to “The Department of Right of Ways.” Seriously, “The Department of Right of Ways.”…
Read MoreSadly, 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…
Read More“Remember, you can always find East by staring directly into the sun” – Bart Simpson
With everyone back from vacation, Rob, Deb and I had a quick meeting last week to outline “next steps.” First up — we’d like to get a driveway and power into the building site by the end of year. That…
Read MoreThird Time Lucky
This will be old news for the four of you that have been with us since the beginning, but it’s been a long summer for the Fullers. We started to bid on a house in South Freeport, only to have…
Read MoreA Walk In The Woods
We lost power in Freeport today. (We’re about to change the name of this blog to “Adventures in Electricity.”) We used the occasion to head over to Cove Road. We walked our new survey and looked — one last time…
Read More“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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