A pic of my 50 cords.

Ok, maybe just a bit shy. There's 8 out on the driveway that didn't make it into the shot.

There's 10 IN the barn you can't see. 12 or so split on pallets. Another 20+ in logs.

My buddy was there today enlarging my parking pad by the barn just a ( bit left side) . My friend with the forklift I'm using has lately been leaving a couple big trailers at my house. Needed a bit more room.

Obviously, a friend with a drone came to visit. Very neat. In two minutes it was winging around the house taking pics and video.

Neat toy. I want a new bicycle more than a drone, but toys are fun!

Just under 70. House is just about in the middle. I'm trying to keep the mess contained to the barn. Still got a lot of junk lumber to sort and either cut to burn, or stack in an orderly fashion. On vacation this week. Got to get going on 16-17 wood. Pallets are all going to the left side of pic. Then I can plow straight up over the hill to the ditch that runs along bottom of pic.

JP

For your neck of the woods.. it is. It's not real common up here, but I looked for a year or so before I found the right piece of land. It's pretty wet. I found an old farmer who wanted to sell, but couldn't stomach the idea of 50 houses going in. It'll keep me in wood forever and ever. I'm just cutting the junk now. I had been cutting just a little of this and that... whatever was convenient to the side of driveway and snowmobile trails.

JP

Yes.. fenced in area to let the dogs out. We always knew we would have dogs, and many times elderly dogs. Thus the ramp out the bedroom door for the 'furry kids'

Stream is great in the spring.. windows open and hear the water rushing. great afternoon nap sounds.

I think our town is 2.5 acre minimum lot size. 250 feet of road frontage on a town road is required. Keeps the house construction down a bit.

JP

Thank you. Answering the questions.

Yes. 48 solar panels on barn. Grid tie, no batteries. Yes. Whatever I don't use minute to minute is sold back. I think after 20 days or so I've made near a megawatt. I've sold back about 700kwh of that. You can see thread on that in "green" sub forum.

Where you see vehicles parked in front of the house is my wife's photo studio. 1200sf. The garage is beneath that. Daylight basement has 3 sliding glass doors and 2 garage doors. I guess I should just include another drone pic.



Cool toy. But I'm over my limit already. JP

Shawn Curry said:

--BEAUTIFUL-- place ya got there! Lawn looks like a golf green. Those extra gable ends - 2 story great room? You got it all - plus 50 cords of wood! And lumber to burn!

I want to be like you when I grow up.

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We'll I guess you could call it a 2 story great room for both. The one above the garage is a 18x30 large room with a 15 foot or so cathedral ceiling. That's my wife's shooting space for her photo business. The other one in the middle of the house is a living room that's 20x30 and has close to a 19 foot ceiling. Found some great teak flooring on closeout, so that's the ceiling in there. My favorite room. I had originally planned on post and beam, but the structure they wanted to build to keep the two halves of the house together was cost prohibitive. Instead.. there's 'cathedral trusses' in there. The outside roof pitch is 12/12.. the INSIDE ceiling pitch is a couple inches less. SO.. you have to do something with the windows. If you match the outside, the inside looks goofy, or vice versa. Thus, the curved windows. Most expensive thing you can imagine. Made right in Maine at Paradigm. SO glad I bit the bullet and did it though. I wouldn't have liked it if I did it another way to save the money at the time.

As for the lawn.. THANKS! I have a commercial zero turn, and the wife makes fun of me for mowing it too much. Been about every 3 days this summer with the rains we've been having. Hate the look of it when it's all windrows of dead grass, and I ain't raking! So it just gets mowed extra. Takes about 1hr. Not bad.

Thanks much guys. I've learned so much from being on here. I really enjoy the wood burning. In fact.. just started the boiler. Been going 1 fire every 3 days or so. BUT.. There's 2 Nyletherms in the garage in boxes. One for me, and one for my buddy the plumber. I drove up to searsport yesterday. No more summer burning next year.

JP