Dometastic

We dodged a bullet this spring. We had our first encounter with a Dome Hater. It came out of the blue and was not connected to us directly. It falls under the crazy neighbor category. We have all heard stories of crazy neighbors even if we haven't directly experienced one. Directly next to our property is another lot for sale. We were surprised and caught off guard when we started getting text messages from the owner letting us know that his potential buyer had plans to stop us from building a dome. Clearly a HATER but at least our current neighbor gave us the heads up! We bought a 8.5 acre lot and changed the house site to be 650 ft back from the road on top of a hill. The house itself is only 18 ft high and will be painted an earth tone with the plans to grow vines over it. The house site on the lot next to us is 75 ft from the road and in a low hollow area. The house would be about 500 feet from us and they would need to look through 3 tree lines. I would be surprised...

Whew! It was the winter that never ends! Every week in March was another big snow storm. April wasn't much better with temperatures 20 degrees below normal and lots of rain, ice and MUD! Snow miser was clearly sucker punching his brother this year. Now that it is the end of April the weather is starting to warm up. Depending on the weather we have been able to tie up some loose end projects from the fall. We have finished the barn end of the electric and data conduit. The inspection is done and we got the sign off to back fill all but right up against the foundation wall. We need to add grounds for the steel sweeps first. Unfortunately, we still can't complete the road end of the trench but I will get to that in a bit. The connection went pretty smoothly once we accepted the fact that we were not going to be able to bend the conduit. We put in a few extra angled connectors instead. Its possible that some big burly construction guy could bend it but it clearly wasn'...