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I love looking back to the earlier stages of our home-building and homestead-establishing process. We were so blissfully unaware of the many headaches that awaited us, and even putting up a rotted piece of lumber with our street numbers on it was exhilarating. We have a pretty long driveway. I think it’s over 300 feet… Continue reading Breaking Ground! Our Driveway, Well, Roots, and a little Concrete

Hey readers! This is the part where I briefly share the early stages of our ridiculous journey towards building a “forever”/ long-term home on Restoring Roots Homestead. Ridiculous is not an overstatement. This process has proven a bit frustrating. I have, at times, yelled about it. Not around anyone, just by myself. And then I… Continue reading Surviving the Early Stages of our Frustrating House Process

We thought we had a great idea… Several months before we were to make the move back to central Indiana, we decided on our initial house plans: we were going to get a prefab cabin put on our property and pay for it in cash, no loans involved. We don’t like being in debt. It… Continue reading House Plans (denied)

After having the property bush-hogged, we could actually walk around and start visualizing future possibilities. Hey readers 🙂  Let’s jump right in.  Early in our adventure here, we realized that, after 4+ years of the vegetation being allowed to grow freely while we were living in Washington state, our property was in need of some… Continue reading Beginning to Dream & WORK

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