The Land - recent past to present

So now let me bring you up to speed with the most recent RSQ progress.  After the events of 2006-2007 not much happened except that we had rolls of insulation delivered and we stored them in the garage for many years.  We both were working stressful full-time jobs and didn't have the energy to devote to the homestead.  Then we started our family.  I gave birth to two babies out of five pregnancies between 2008-2014 (miscarriages as a result of uterine fibroids).  I share this because I spent a lot of time thinking about being pregnant, being pregnant, and recovering from being pregnant during the intervening years.  After Sister was born in 2014 I was positive that I did not want to go through any more pregnancies.  Due to continued medical issues I ended up having a hysterectomy in 2016... I give this bit of background because it reinforced the fact that health is a necessary precondition to any project.  My health, and having small children, are the main reasons why RSQ was on the back burner for a while. 

We visited the land in 2015 when Sister was seven months old.  We did some organization, stacked up the rolls of insulation that were taking up the main floor space of the garage and even put up one roll just to see how it would go. 

Insulation rolls in blue bags stacked

First roll of insulation on the wall

We purchased the insulation when we thought this building would be a garage with a bathroom.  Now we want to make it into a fully functional tiny house.  Another way to insulate the building would be to frame up the inside and put insulation behind the drywall. Our plan does include some framing, but not just for the sake of cosmetics.  Also, we want to use everything that we already purchased and we have a plan to decorate so that the insulation is not very noticeable.  So we proceeded with hanging the insulation, but realized quickly that we couldn't hang insulation with a baby in tow.  First there is the dust that the kids should not breath and secondly these suckers are heavy!  It is a two-person job and one of them can't be holding a kiddo. 

The next time we worked on the building was in 2016-2017 when Sister was two years old.  We rented scaffolding from the big box store on two occasions.  It took several trips over eight months to get the job done...

Husband on the scaffolding attaching insulation to the building

The first step in attaching the insulation was to lay it out and we used the scaffolding
and a ladder to raise it up.  The top of the building is 12' tall.

Yes, it's currently a big padded room. 

Our tent has been set up inside the building for a while.  We have a futon mattress
and all of our sleeping bags inside ready to use when we visit. 

We do have a bit more insulation to use on the end walls, but we need to get the framing for the lofts and rooms up before the insulation goes in.  In a future post I will try to share the floor plan we have drawn up.  

The current state of affairs is that we are storing our remaining possessions there so the building is very full.  I hope that on our next trip we can organize things and start to plan the next steps in this adventure.