Gull Lake Ranch: Merry Christmas 2012

Sunday, December 23, 2012

Merry Christmas 2012

It's been snowing almost constantly for a week, but today, December 23rd, it stopped! Okay, it started snowing again at 5 pm, but up until then we had none. We even saw the sun for a few hours dodging in and out of the clouds allowing our PV modules to make some power for the first time in 6 days. Everything looks beautiful! What a winter wonderland we live in! It was picture postcard pretty, with snow dripping from the over saturated branches of every tree. Rather than try and tell you how it looks, we've uploaded some pics so you can enjoy it right along with us.

Whisky wondering if we've brought him something to eat.

Mystery hoping for a treat.

The back side of the house. Note our snow-covered truck on the lower right.

What a beautiful paddock our horses live in!

Joey and Ben on the driveway below the house.

Looks like a postcard!

Carol and I both hope you enjoy reading our blog as much as we enjoy writing it. Of course, we'd like to post more often but life gets in the way. Living on and building a ranch in the hills around Kamloops means there is always something that we should be doing so time to sit and work on our blog comes at a premium. We'd like to take this time to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

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Chapter 2, High Country Living

After finding the perfect piece of property, we are now in the final stages of building our house. Not just any house, mind you. After much looking around (on the internet and on foot) we decided against a modular or mobile home and instead built a Kingsbury II, from Linwood Homes.
We have overcome many challenges along the way - no utility power supply; no septic system or well; and choosing to live in a relatively remote location more than 1,000 metres above sea level.
We acted as our own General Contractor and performed almost all the work on the home ourselves, once our builder did the basement and erected the house to "lock up".
All our efforts are paying off. With the siding and exterior trim almost complete, the house is starting to look like the image we had in our minds when we started.
Our journey has not been without a few bumps along the way as you will find out when you read through this chronicle. If you are considering a similar project we hope that this blog can help you avoid some of the challenges we faced.
With construction winding down we feel it's time to shift the focus of our writing toward our day-to-day lives. We hope you'll continue to follow us as we live off-grid in the high country of the interior of British Columbia, Canada.