It's a Journey

I feel as though I've been neglecting the marmot. The new house is consuming much of my attention, and it's a bit exhausting. We're learning a lot of lessons that we will almost certainly never need to know again, so I'll pass a few along here in case anyone reading the marmot wants to design and build a house. Here's a tip: If you're using a designer to draw plans, and an engineer or architect to sign them, make sure they use the same CAD software. Or plan to add about $1K to the cost of the review when the architect redraws the plans. It's a long story. I'll spare you. AKMA posted a wonderful story the other day. The weather today is remarkably similar to the weather reported on this day a year ago. Wet and rainy. The weather data in the current posts is correct for this location. It was nice yesterday, so I spent a lot of time outside with the weed-whacker, cleaning up here and there. The construction driveway has created a couple of islands where the mower can't reach, so we'll…