A House In A Field
The story of a house. In a field. And how it gets there.
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It’s our one year anniversary. (And yes, it feels much longer to us, too.)
Can you believe we’ve been doing this nonsense for a year? On August 1st of last year — as both a long-term memory aid and as an exercise in stress management — we started writing about our adventures in real…
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 MoreIs It Wrong To Be Excited About Utility Poles?
Five months — almost to the day — after we made the first call to our comrades at Fairpoint, we now have utility poles leading to the Dash Landing driveway. The best part? After 150 days, countless phone calls, begging,…
Read More“You speak like a green girl, unsifted in such perilous circumstances.” – William Shakespeare
Email from Debbie today : “We’re on Fairpoint’s construction schedule! They got the right-of-way permission today (so they say). Poles should be placed in a week or two. The construction group has a “fluid” schedule due to storms etc., but…
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 MoreWe 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…
Read MoreMore driveway.
There’s yet another post underway about our “kremlin-esque” experience with Central Maine Power and Fairpoint, but — frankly — it wears us out. Let’s just look at how the driveway is progressing…. ‘
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