Eventually we want to be off the grid and independent.
We built our castle on a hill. We were the general contractors and did much of the work ourselves. We laid all the flooring (porcelain and hardwoods), installed the radiant heat tubing, finished the carpentry work when our sub abandoned us for work closer to his home, laid stone, built the fireplace, did all the landscaping, installed all the stairs, installed all the plumbing and helped my brother inlaw with the wiring. All this was accomplished in 14 months while working full time jobs. We lived in our camper with a porta-john as our bathroom. I give great credit to my wife for putting up with it. The structure of the house is mainly reinforced poured concrete, we hired pumper trucks to pump the concrete up two stories. I was fifty-eight and my wife was forty-eight at the time. I say all this not to brag, it is said to dispel class envy. We live in our castle as common folk with a dream.
I read this somewhere
"When you're a teen you worry yourself sick over what others think...
When you're in your thirties you don't care what others think...
When you're in your sixties you realize no one was ever thinking about you..."
Now, I am unemployed and looking for work. Having applied for about sixty jobs has helped me with my insight into the plight of so many. The National parks system has rejected my applications as well as my wife's for summer work stating we do not meet the minimum requirements for a laborer's position. College educated, experienced in manual labor, organised enough to follow through on the construction of our castle but we do not meet the minimum requirements ? This summer my wife and I are going to visit some of the National parks to meet the people who meet the minimum requirements. Did I mention my wife is a veteran with eight and half years military service and a master's degree to boot. The construction of our blog site shall follow the pattern as the construction of our castle one stone at a time but we will have access to the masterbath in this endeavor. Well, life is good and we are happy. We have no regrets and hope you catch your dream.
We built this place as a gathering point for Artists, Writers, Musicians and lovers of life...not the elite but for just plain folk. You will find my paintings scattered amoungst my babblings.
