Well part 1

The well has been drilled!!! But still no running water. Two rigs showed up, one had a giant drill and one had a water tank and pipes on it.

The rigs showed up around 9am and drilled and drilled and drilled until 3pm before they hit water.

My son thought it was all quite magnificent. They had to mix in some sort gel that made this gunky mud stuff that will not dry, its all over the yard. I'm not sure what to do with it. It has rained a couple of times but it won't wash away. My husband tried to scrape it up but its very heavy.

They well guys are coming back in a week to hook up the well pump and water tank. The water tank is pretty big and since we do not have a basement we had two options for tank placement. Outside and build an insulated/ heated structure around it or inside in the bathroom. The well guy thought it should for sure be inside. He said it will freeze and it will be very expensive to get a new tank. So we are going to listen to him, which means my lovely claw foot bath tub has to go and be replaced with a tiny shower. No more hot baths with Lush bath products and a glass of wine reading horror/scifi novels. I guess its better to shower at home than go to the truck stop to shower. My son loves taking baths too and giving his trucks a wash down. 

We finished laying the vinyl tiles by the front door.

The compost pit for the Humanure has been built. Its walls are built from old pallets with straw on the bottom. When the bucket is full it gets put out here to compost down. It takes about a year for everything to compost down. We also had to fence it off because my husband caught our pug in there digging around. Pugs are nasty.

Here is a link about compost humanure. http://humanurehandbook.com/hacienda.html

We are in this last ditch effort to get things done before winter settles in. Since its the upper Midwest we could be getting snow anytime. We need one more trailer load of wood, finish splitting and stacking the green wood from the five trees we had to take down, spray some insulation under the house and put up skirting as a wind break around the bottom.