I’m taking another departure from the process of housebuilding to throw out an idea that came to me the other night. While lying in bed pondering various things on my “To Do” list my thoughts wandered into the area of property taxes.
Archive for June, 2009
Up to this point our labor has mostly been of the manual variety. With the exception of the tiller, our work has been done with shovels, rakes, wheelbarrow and hand. We haven’t missed the fact that we are completely without power. More noticeable is the absence of ready water, but that’s another post.
Up until this point we’ve been using an old bladed driveway that the previous owner cut to his building site. Since the little road led us directly to the shed, we kept on using it as a starting point for all of our activities. Now that our focus has shifted to the new house site we came to the point where we needed to put in a real driveway.
The plateau has a remarkably diverse set of landscapes from the heavily forested ridge-lines to quasi-desert mesa. The mesa is considered desert by some because of its lack of vegetation (read trees)but its anything but deserted. The land holds many types of shrubs and grasses, and even in this fairly dry place (less than 15″ rain per year) there are still the occasional oak and pine trees in low lying areas.