This week we took delivery of a propane tank – a shiny white cylindrical vessel the size of a submarine and the shape of an ibuprofen capsule. It was a reminder that despite our best…

After spending countless hours cutting back saplings, bittersweet and other invaders from the edge of the forest to reveal old stone walls built by former residents of the Red House, we discovered there is an…

This week we witnessed another dramatic change in the landscape around the Red House. On Tuesday morning, TJ Bergquist arrived with two men, a big truck and a giant hose loaded with a grass seed…

Our architect warned us that digging a new foundation on a new site would be disruptive (to say the least) and that it would take several years for the land around the house “to heal.”…

This week contractors pulled out all the stops, under pressure to finish their work before Thursday when a moving crew from Country Pickers arrived with furniture and possessions we’ve been storing since 2020. Our lovely…

This week the carpentry, painting and landscaping crews made enormous strides toward the project finish line and we also had electricians, geothermal technicians and the plumber on site. The work days started at dawn and…

This was a transformative week at the Red House. Joe from Drew Corps arrived early each morning to pull out old stumps and move mountains of dirt (fill), gravel and sand. He defined the boundaries…

It’s been almost a month since we moved in to what has felt more like a work site than a home. Each day that we are here, the Red House has become more like home….

A full moon is often used as a symbol for coming full circle – completion of a phase or task. Under Tuesday’s full Harvest Moon, we thought about how much we have done to make…

It’s been called the Nevers’, the Moulton’s or the Johnson’s farmhouse depending on who was living here at the time but it has also been referred to for generations simply as “the red house.” This…

It’s not ideal to move into your new home before the contractors are finished their work but sometimes, as they say in England, needs must. So this week we’ve been on site while six different…

It’s been another frenetic week at the worksite as plumbers, electricians, carpenters, painters and tilers scramble to complete their tasks while competing for space. On Friday, the day we moved in, they had to make…

With just one week to go until we move in, crews are working seven days a week to meet our deadline. At the rate things are going, it looks like we are going to make…

While I took the week off to go sailing on the coast, Nils stayed the course at the worksite, clearing stone walls as Robert’s Roofing covered the ell with a standing seam metal roof. Stone…

Three weeks away from our soft move-in day, several crews are competing for space as they work on the Red House. They’re concentrating their efforts on the new ell, which houses a new entryway, living…