According to the old saying its one bite at a time. I’m trying to embrace that journey of a thousand miles begins with a single elephant sandwich mentality for the farm. I have got some of the first bites out of the way, scrap guy slowly doing his thing, and the goat guy dropping of an army of eating machines next week. I’ve sold off most of the farmhouse furniture, and the wood burning stoves. One of my cousins wants the stained glass so I’ll organize for them to come and collect those soon.

As you may have guessed I’m still in the tear things down stage, and probably will be for a few months. There is a lot to prune back, literally and metaphorically.

First big project is getting a water supply organized. The old tanks and systems where falling apart years ago, and six months without my fathers constant maintenance means they have totally failed. I’m now at youtube-eversity learning about water harvesting, tanks, pumps, and plumbing. Most of the stuff seems like common sense, and people have been getting water from the sky for quite a long time, so how hard can it be?

I did get a quote for a system and design done by a local water contractor, but it was expensive and illogical. He wanted to spend thousands on groundwork to put a large tank up the hill because then the house could have gravity water pressure. His plans involved so much extra piping and excavation to avoid a small inexpensive water pressure pump that I knew I needed to figure stuff out for myself. From what I can see so far his $30000 quote was about twice what I could get for a system twice the size and five times more practical… if I do say so myself.