A Quiet Week

Not much has been happening over the last week or so. The weather here has been brutally cold with temps down as low as -30*C in Barnhartvale. We took the car up on Saturday to install the "Private Property" sign we made at the shop and to just enjoy the scenery. Robbins Range Road was pristine. It had been snowing overnight and there was 4 or 5 cm of fresh, powdery snow over everything. Our tire tracks were the only ones to mark the soft blanket of white. When we hit the first section of the driveway through the crown land 1/4 section, we realized that Jayson's crew had been busy for at least some of the week. All the areas that were wet and boggy last fall had been excavated and filled with crushed rock. It had not been compacted and was quite soft in spots. The underside of our poor little Suzuki SX4 made quite the racket as it scraped over the high spots! No harm done and it may have actually cleaned some of the frozen mud off the bottom.
We arrived at the newly-installed gates, installed the sign, and let Joey out to run up the driveway to the house site. She loves to be the leader and bounds quickly ahead of the car. We parked the car and walked up to the spring that will serve as our water supply. Under the fresh snow we found two enormous piles of crushed rock that Jayson will use when he "formalizes" our well.
Earlier in the week we received the bill from Tim, our septic planner. We mailed out a cheque to him and assume that he will do the same with our septic permit. We also got word from Tom at Linwood that the colour samples for the siding and roofing were in the mail to us. I left a message with the Owner Builder Permit people to inquire on the ETA of our permit as their website gives no indication of how long we were going to wait for it. I received a phone call from them later in the day informing me that it was normally between 7 & 10 business days after receiving my paperwork. That would put the ETA sometime later this week (March 3rd or 4th). Once it arrives and we receive the paperwork from Tim we can actually go and submit our Building Permit application with TNRD. We're kind of excited about that prospect as one of the first things they do is assign us a street addresss. Should be cool...!