Aug 12

Phew!

Just had a meeting with the contractors , Jeff & Ken. Phew! After going through almost anything you could think of for building a dome the total comes out to over $371k. Phew! I knew when we first started that $150k wasn’t going to be enough; but, damn! But when you stop and look at it, with the prices nowadays it’s really not that expensive. New stick homes (in our sizes) start at $250k around here. And that’s on a quarter-acre lot! If that! We got our 5.77 acres for just over $19k and the 5.1 acre property next door (unimproved. I mean Nothing on it! POSSIBLE Mt. Rainier view (in their wildest dreams!)) just went on the market for $150k.

So, the contractors are going to really finalize the numbers tomorrow then we’ll go for financing. The monthly payments are going to be a lot; but we’ll both work to pay it off as soon as we can. GOD, I NEED TO WIN THE MEGA-LOTTO!

Aug 11

Bourne Ultimatum…

SWMBO and I went on our usual Friday date last night. Went to Red Lobster for dinner then to see “The Bourne Ultimatum”. Cool movie! Action from beginning to end. I knew at the end that Bourne was going to end up in the water with bullet holes in his back before they showed it. The only “complaint” I had with the movie was how incredibly fast, accurate and ‘all knowing’ the computers they used were. For all you ‘techno-phobes’ out there; it can be done; but it can’t be done that fast.

 

Aug 08

Really Not Much Going On Lately…

Still going out to the property most everyday and either cutting up wood and bringing it home or moving dirt. Trying to make where I want the outbuilding bigger. Rained the other day so I stayed home and re-stacked the wood in our ‘wood shed’. Have room now for the ‘new’ wood. Now to rent a log splitter…
Want to go see the latest Bourne movie. Maybe Friday night. Red Lobster sounds good too! Read the “Bourne Identity” and am reading the “Bourne Supremacy”. Except for an ‘agent’ that’s lost his memory the books are nothing like the movies. And I think I like the movies better. Too much whining I can’t remember this or I can’t remember that in the books. The books are interesting. But not as interesting as the movies.

Jul 24

Finally! The Damned Rain Has Stopped…

And we’re moving back to warm (GOOD) weather! I’ve still been going out to the property most every day and cutting a load of firewood and bringing it back here. About got enough to justify renting a log splitter.
SWMBO took me to the mall in Silverdale today to pick up her Harry Potter book. We tried out some of the Select Comfort beds also as we’re planning to switch beds when we move in to the dome. Been sleeping on a waterbed since 1971 (with FEW exceptions) but am ready to move to something else. Something a bit more comfortable maybe….
Took a couple of days a scanned over 300 of my pictures and will be straightening those up and uploading them to my gallery. Spent the last couple of days ripping my (legal!) cd’s to mp3’s.