Improvements

With the advent of more extreme weather in our area -- mainly wind and rain; it has led to deeper thinking about preparedness and greater appreciation of how "solid" our house is compared to a camper.  Despite the camper/ tiny home being on the larger end of the spectrum (2 bed, 2 bath), the decreased insulation (regular and sound) becomes quickly apparent when a storm rolls through.  

I suppose I had greater expectations with respect to build quality.  That bubble burst a while ago and we've been busy designing and building additional protective structures to deal with diverting water to hopefully avoid future commonly known issues.  D estimates he has put in over 200 hrs in the construction alone with likely more in my planning.  

Thank goodness we are nearly at 100% completion -- It has been exhausting. Not only did we save money compared to lesser effective alternatives, we now have something that has been custom designed with weight, sheer and other forces in mind combined with esthetic.  It has been neat to combine D's previous construction experience with my architectural.

There's another capital project I'd like to do but not this year.  Had we not been under lockdown/stay at home orders and lost another month to rain, it might have been completed or at least started, but as of now, we are both spent and just want to enjoy the fall.  My mind has linked this place to work and I don't like it.

We were recently at 40 hrs without power out there from another storm, but not going to consider a generator.  So will need to consider editing what we leave in the fridge and freezer moving forward.

The challenge for me is trying to stop my brain from automatically and continuously thinking (and dreaming) of solutions like an annoying program running in the background of a computer.