Kennedy’s Little House in the Big Woods

Things are starting to move forward with our dream home! Over the past week Core Electric (our electric co-op) came out to the property and performed an engineering survey. We're expecting to get their schematic within the next couple of weeks. On the same day Bob met with the engineer, he also met with a prospective contractor to put in our driveway and install the septic system. Since we already have the driveway permit, we're just waiting on his estimate to possibly get started. It'll be great to finally be able to drive onto our property. We also got the final engineering plans for the house from our architect earlier this week so we can submit them to the county for our building permit. Lots of great things happening and feels like things are finally moving forward. Austin joined Bob on the day after Thanksgiving at the property to do some cutting. We had a big tree that had been toppled over that we needed to trim branches from and cut up. Taking in the view from the ...

We got the permit to put in the driveway so we spent Friday afternoon (08/27/21) clearing trees. Next step is to clear the stumps and then call in the big machinery to carve out the driveway. That’ll be a big milestone for us since we’ve been eagerly awaiting being able to actually drive onto our property. Bob cutting down one of the first trees: Laura clearing the lower branches to reduce the chance of Bob getting impaled when the trees fall: Bob got cocky felling trees and tried to cut one down the opposite way it wanted to fall. The result? Not one but two chain saws stuck in a tree! After much hacking away with the axe, we were finally able to work the larger chain saw out and rescue the second.

We started the first step of building our dream house in Pine, Colorado by closing on 8 acres on July 9, 2021. After three long years of searching and somewhere around 100 properties visited, God blessed us with the perfect piece of land.