Winter Wonderland

After picking up the Building Permit, I took a trip out to the property to take some photos. This is a shot looking down part of the driveway.
Another shot of the driveway continuing down the ridge.

Looking back along the driveway. That's going to be alot of snow to shovel.
I will gladly take donations to my tractor fund!
This shot shows the area that has been cleared for the house. The septic bed is located in the back.
Future firewood. Now all I have to do is cut it and split it! (that's all)

The skidoos like the property.

The remnance of an old house foundations on the left.

Building Permit

I drove out to the county yesterday to pick up our Building Permit. Very exciting! Now all we have to do is wait for this blasted cold weather to leave!

Property Location

When people ask us where we are moving to, most people have no idea where Prince Edward County is. Prince Edward County is next to Belleville and Trenton. The County used to be a penninsula before the Murray Canal was built (1882 to 1889). Now to go to the County you must cross one of either 3 swing bridges, or the 2 larger bridges.

To learn more about the County, check out this link http://www.pec.on.ca/Welcome.html

This shot shows the location of our property in the County.

Our property is located on County Rd 14. As of yet we don't have a street number, but we have applied for it.

I have shaded in roughly where our property(red) is. We will be the last house on County Rd 14.

House design

These are a couple of drawings of our house design.

The log home is being built by Colonial Concepts in Lindsay. It will be built in the factory and then disassembled and shipped to site. I have attached their web link so you can see their homes. http://www.colonialconcepts.com/index_noflash.html

Fall colours (Oct. 06)

We took a trip out to the property to have a look at the fall colours. Here they are...

The river has slowed down.











Our own little lake. This water never seems to drain. You would think that it would drain through the limestone!












The forest down in the ravine.

WET

We received a phone call from Ralph(Lil Dipper) telling us we should come have a look at the property. There has been alot of flooding in the county and our property was very wet, and right where we were going to put the house. The water you see in this photo is where the house was to built. We found a dry spot about 100 ft further into the forest and and decided the house will go there.







So, back to the driveway...make it longer! The bottom of the ridge was very wet and there was about 3ft of soil on top of the lime stone.












Twenty-two dump truck loads of stone were brought in to build the driveway up out of the wet area.












We now have a good,strong (and thick) driveway!













The house will now be located beyond the vehicle to the left.












Our driveway is now 400ft long!!(I'm gonna hate winter!)

February /06 visit

We took a drive to the property in February to have another look. By this time we had already made an offer on the property. The property is 23.5 acres located on County Rd 14 in Demorestville, Prince Edward Counth.

This is a path that leads in from the east side of the property. As you can see by the vehicle tracks, locals are using it on their ATV's

This part of the property opens up. The trees were clear cut and the soil stripped off. It will be many years before it is a forest again.

Catherine is standing on the edge of the escarpment. Our property extends down the hill to the river at the bottom. There is also a nice forest down there.

I am standing on the bridge that crosses the river that edges our property. Our property is on the left of the river

This is a view of the forest down below the ridge.

The quest for water

The first thing we needed to do was find water. We had a guy out to the property with his divining rods and he located 2 underground streams that crossed, so that is where he blasted. We only have a few inches of soil and then it is all limestone. He had to blast the hole twice. The well is 23 ft deep and 3 ft in diameter. On this trip we went to see how much water was in the well. This photo tells the story ...NONE!! We were nervous, but the guy who blasted wasn't. He said it may take a week or two for the water to come in. It eventually did, and now we have about 2o ft of water.




Catherine is standing beside the capped well. Her smile is forced because we have no water in our well.











We had to clear the forest and make our driveway longer so the well company could get their equipment in to blast the hole. Our driveway now is about 300 ft long (alot to shovel in the winter). Our plan is to locate the house in the forest on the right side of the driveway looking at this photo.