nightshade
Lovin' The Homestead
okay so we have been fighting to even get the local power company to come out and look at our sit, give is a number, tell us what needs done where they are going to be coming in ect. Every day the story has changed from one thing to another. All week they have said we are coming up over the hill from the neighbors horse pasture.
They were told they HAD to call and make sure someone was going to be there so any questions could be answered and we could make any objections we felt necessary. They also had told us for three weeks that they would be trenching it because we live in the woods and they no longer go over head in the woods because maintenance is a nightmare.
Then decide Monday that they are going over head because it would be to costly for them to trench it since we are over 500ft from the nearest pole and that is what THEY do for free on a new construction is 1 pole and 500 ft or less of line. We spend all night til dark last night after work trying to see what all they are going to destroy going over head now. I cry a lot, more of why I was moving there gone they are now going to be able to see our house from the road and I get to stare at the neighbor's place from my front window across the field. But maybe it wont be too bad.
Okay so this afternoon we get a message on hubby's cell.
"That oh I was AT your site I have no idea where your house is setting because you have too many flags on the site for it to be clearly marked"
We had the I don't know where the house is going problem with them last week with them even though it was clearly marked by 4 flags one one each corner as the builder told us to do. So hubby out lined the entire house shape with flags and wrote HOME on the ground in it with orange landscaper's paint thinking who can be so dumb that they can't find it now. But the power guy says he could not find where the home was going.
"You will have to mark the definitive driveway because I went up a winding dirt road and think it was the right place but you have to mark the drive way because that is where we are going to come up." HE drove up the one lane wide drive way it was what he was calling the dirt winding road! And what do you mean that is where you are going to come up!!!! You said you were coming from the neighbors because it was the nearest pole!
HE goes on to say that they can no longer come from the neighbors field because on a location inspection they found they can not maintain it coming up over the hill so that is no longer an option. What the hell do you mean you can't maintain it you have not maintained any over the local right of ways for over 6 years! At this point in listening to the message I am livid and shaking. And it only got better.
"YOU as the property owner will have to clear the 40 ft! right of way for us to run the lines boarding your driveway. And it needs cleared so that was can maintain it properly (spraying and cutting off everything in the right of way at the ground once a year). Everything in the area needs to be cut off at the ground with no stumps higher then 3 inches and all brush, limbs and logs must be removed from the area completely."
This just happens to go right over our orchard, the last thing my dad and I did together before he died. It was started 3 years ago and every year we add to it. I have hundreds of dollars on this orchard and they are saying if I want power from the local company which is required by law here to obtain your occupancy permit, they all need removed. As well as a 30ft tall black cherry tree that I had to promise my dad before planting the orchard that I would never remove.
I can't even go solar and go off grid because the law here states that even if you produce your own power you must be hooked up to the grid, sell it to the local company and the purchase it back. NO grid hook up no permit to live in your own home on your won property!
The guy went on to say that "I will be in the office for about 10 mins yet before leaving for the weekend. If you have any questions or need me to come out there AGAIN to explain it to you in person you need to call so I can make arrangements to do so. I can pencil you in for Wednesday at 9 am sharp between other jobs that do need my attention if needed but you need to let me know. I will not be back until Tuesday so if you can call me while I am still here it would be best."
That was at 2:32 this afternoon we never got the message til after 3 o-clock. We measured the distance from where they want to come now it is 100 ft over the 500ft they pay for. They say we have to pay that and for the second pole that it is going to require out of pocket. It is $4 a foot for the extra distance and I could not get a quote on the pole because the person who takes care of that had already left for the long holiday weekend.
I have done nothing but cry all night. I have no where to move the orchard that I have worked so hard on and put so much money into. And besides that it IS the LAST thing I did with my dad before he died and none of this is suppose to mean anything. I knew that the entire moving thing was going to be super stressful I planned for that. But so far in the entire process I have pretty much lost all ability to make any of the decisions or have any part of the project my way or fitting my dream.
I had to give up my big truck patch size garden in order to fit the mobile home we went with because it had more floor space for less money to go single wide. I am thrilled with the more space but devastated by the loss of the garden I had already mapped out and greenhouse I have already purchase and now have no where to put. Yes we have 19 acres but it is heavily wooded, that is what we wanted. It was horribly timbered which removed most of the old growth trees all but those that were not strait for lumber. Crushed, smashed, delimbed most of the smaller young trees that were left behind. And made a huge brushy mess that it will take the better part of 10 yrs to clean up. I lost all my trees in what will be my front yard to the horrid that is where the sand mound is going to have to go. The lot that was cleared to put the house and garden is tear dropped shaped to do the natural slope of the terrain, we are on a large bump between to valleys. The open spot we cleared is the entire hill top there is no room to expand it.
The once beautiful place that my daddy said "this is where I want you to live" is no longer a beautiful place and every day even for all the back breaking work it is not getting better it is only bring more disappointment. I would hate to say it but it makes me wonder if I should just tell hubby I am leaving for the summer you do what you have to do. And when I get back and it is done, well what is done is done and my dreams of our home I had in head will have to just be dreams.
They were told they HAD to call and make sure someone was going to be there so any questions could be answered and we could make any objections we felt necessary. They also had told us for three weeks that they would be trenching it because we live in the woods and they no longer go over head in the woods because maintenance is a nightmare.
Then decide Monday that they are going over head because it would be to costly for them to trench it since we are over 500ft from the nearest pole and that is what THEY do for free on a new construction is 1 pole and 500 ft or less of line. We spend all night til dark last night after work trying to see what all they are going to destroy going over head now. I cry a lot, more of why I was moving there gone they are now going to be able to see our house from the road and I get to stare at the neighbor's place from my front window across the field. But maybe it wont be too bad.
Okay so this afternoon we get a message on hubby's cell.
"That oh I was AT your site I have no idea where your house is setting because you have too many flags on the site for it to be clearly marked"
We had the I don't know where the house is going problem with them last week with them even though it was clearly marked by 4 flags one one each corner as the builder told us to do. So hubby out lined the entire house shape with flags and wrote HOME on the ground in it with orange landscaper's paint thinking who can be so dumb that they can't find it now. But the power guy says he could not find where the home was going.
"You will have to mark the definitive driveway because I went up a winding dirt road and think it was the right place but you have to mark the drive way because that is where we are going to come up." HE drove up the one lane wide drive way it was what he was calling the dirt winding road! And what do you mean that is where you are going to come up!!!! You said you were coming from the neighbors because it was the nearest pole!
HE goes on to say that they can no longer come from the neighbors field because on a location inspection they found they can not maintain it coming up over the hill so that is no longer an option. What the hell do you mean you can't maintain it you have not maintained any over the local right of ways for over 6 years! At this point in listening to the message I am livid and shaking. And it only got better.
"YOU as the property owner will have to clear the 40 ft! right of way for us to run the lines boarding your driveway. And it needs cleared so that was can maintain it properly (spraying and cutting off everything in the right of way at the ground once a year). Everything in the area needs to be cut off at the ground with no stumps higher then 3 inches and all brush, limbs and logs must be removed from the area completely."
This just happens to go right over our orchard, the last thing my dad and I did together before he died. It was started 3 years ago and every year we add to it. I have hundreds of dollars on this orchard and they are saying if I want power from the local company which is required by law here to obtain your occupancy permit, they all need removed. As well as a 30ft tall black cherry tree that I had to promise my dad before planting the orchard that I would never remove.
I can't even go solar and go off grid because the law here states that even if you produce your own power you must be hooked up to the grid, sell it to the local company and the purchase it back. NO grid hook up no permit to live in your own home on your won property!
The guy went on to say that "I will be in the office for about 10 mins yet before leaving for the weekend. If you have any questions or need me to come out there AGAIN to explain it to you in person you need to call so I can make arrangements to do so. I can pencil you in for Wednesday at 9 am sharp between other jobs that do need my attention if needed but you need to let me know. I will not be back until Tuesday so if you can call me while I am still here it would be best."
That was at 2:32 this afternoon we never got the message til after 3 o-clock. We measured the distance from where they want to come now it is 100 ft over the 500ft they pay for. They say we have to pay that and for the second pole that it is going to require out of pocket. It is $4 a foot for the extra distance and I could not get a quote on the pole because the person who takes care of that had already left for the long holiday weekend.
I have done nothing but cry all night. I have no where to move the orchard that I have worked so hard on and put so much money into. And besides that it IS the LAST thing I did with my dad before he died and none of this is suppose to mean anything. I knew that the entire moving thing was going to be super stressful I planned for that. But so far in the entire process I have pretty much lost all ability to make any of the decisions or have any part of the project my way or fitting my dream.
I had to give up my big truck patch size garden in order to fit the mobile home we went with because it had more floor space for less money to go single wide. I am thrilled with the more space but devastated by the loss of the garden I had already mapped out and greenhouse I have already purchase and now have no where to put. Yes we have 19 acres but it is heavily wooded, that is what we wanted. It was horribly timbered which removed most of the old growth trees all but those that were not strait for lumber. Crushed, smashed, delimbed most of the smaller young trees that were left behind. And made a huge brushy mess that it will take the better part of 10 yrs to clean up. I lost all my trees in what will be my front yard to the horrid that is where the sand mound is going to have to go. The lot that was cleared to put the house and garden is tear dropped shaped to do the natural slope of the terrain, we are on a large bump between to valleys. The open spot we cleared is the entire hill top there is no room to expand it.
The once beautiful place that my daddy said "this is where I want you to live" is no longer a beautiful place and every day even for all the back breaking work it is not getting better it is only bring more disappointment. I would hate to say it but it makes me wonder if I should just tell hubby I am leaving for the summer you do what you have to do. And when I get back and it is done, well what is done is done and my dreams of our home I had in head will have to just be dreams.
