As you all know, konstruction was put on hold while we waited for the lawyer to finish screwing around and get the paperwork taken care of. Because of this, we weren’t able to get anything accomplished in the summer of 2015.

I spoke with the kontractor on October 4, 2015, and the current plan is to begin demolition in the spring, sometime in April 2016. He’s actually going to do the demolition himself, which should save us some money. The plan is to excavate into one of the small hills on the property, dig a shallow grave, so to speak, and push the demolished camp into it. Then, he’ll cover it with the dirt he removed and effectively bury the remains of the old camp. This, too, should save us a considerable amount of money as having the debris hauled away was going to be expensive.

I’m going to be working on a new floorplan over that time. After discussing it further, it turns out that creating two stories actually increases the costs significantly. So, rather than have a camp that goes up, I’m going to design something that goes back. That is, it will be in an L-shape. I’m thinking the front facing the road will be approximately the same as the original first-floor design, and then I’ll take the other floor space and put it into a wing that juts back into the forest. Thus, we’ll still have the same square footage, but it will be spread across a single story. Not only will this make it cheaper, but we won’t have to be hauling beds and things up and down stairs. We may even be able to put a deck on the back inside the L.

That’s the latest news for now. At some point, I hope to have the time to tweak this Web site so that I can more easily update the site without losing the previous posts. This design works, but it’s not to my liking. This new WordPress site should accommodate what I’m looking for.