Still waiting on the welder; Decision made.

The hummingbird still sits at the college waiting on the welder to do his magic.

I am starting the packing to move to the new rent house, which is annoying the cats a great deal. :)

After consulting with three people I trust to give me an honest opinion, I've decided that as much as I like the thought of having a tiny house, what I really will continue to need is a vardo. The original reasons I planned on building one still stand, and while I will not be able to make it to Gulf War this year, there still is the Texas Renaissance Festival which is ONLY 313 days away. Plus a great deal of camping can be done between now and then. :)

Thinking:

Ok,

I got a 5x14 trailer: The Hummingbird pictured previously.

It still sits and nothing has happened on the welding end of things.

So it's given me a moment or three weeks to think and ponder the following question. 

With the economy this bad, should I build a tiny house instead of the vardo?

With this question in my mind I wondered, what would going to a tiny house cost me, on first the trailer level and then the cost of construction.  So I started at the beginning. I wandered over to Tri-Tex and asked the question. 

To turn in the new trailer and reorder a 7x14 will cost me about 400 dollars, and then factor in the cost of getting the new trailer, tax, title and licensed...about 600 bucks...

So, I'm thinking.

Any comments?

A place to do the BUILD: HUZZAH

Ok,

As anyone that has been reading my blog knows, I'm living in the rent house from BROWN,

Where the landlord will not allow me to do the build. An additional problem with the rent house is that it is small, brown, within 20 feet of the back door of the landlord's house, brown, with in 10 feet of the small efficiency on the other side, brown, very Very Very loud 75 yards away from the rail road tracks and well, did I mention it is brown*?

So today I and my assistant were driving into town to go to lunch and there was this sign outside a house on Main Street: FOR RENT.

We stopped the truck and called the number and the lady that answered, was actually in the house cleaning up from the last renter.

The major questions that came up before we talked money.

Q: Are Cats a problem?  A: Bring them along. :)

Q: Can I put a trailer in the garage in the back and work on it? : A: As long as the City doesn't have a problem we don't.

At which point I was invited to walk through the house: 2 Bed : 2 Bath,  and asked for an application.

My assistant went off and had lunch, and I filled out the application.

After lunch I returned with the application and a check for the deposit.

Ms. Mary took a look at my application and the fact that I had money in hand and rented me the place!!!


I HAVE A PLACE TO DO THE BUILD!!!!

I'll pay for an extra week in January so that I can move the cats out of this house and into the new house but HAPPY DANCE ENSUES!!!

UPDATE: 1-14-2012 The keys to the new house have arrived! And so it begins...

*Brown: The exterior has been painted, the interior carpet was chosen as it was, the walls were installed, wood paneling, Dark wood paneling, the bathtub is green and the kitchen flooring is Brown.

Another step backwards:

So I went back to go back to work today, happy to finally see my humming bird ready for painting this weekend, if the weather holds and then I can start working on the subflooring. 

And what do I find?  A finished welding job?

Nope: hasn't even been started. The  last picture is still the correct image.

I'll call the welder sometime tomorrow and ask what is going on.

So instead of trying to start the build this weekend, I am now how many weeks away from starting.

AAAAAGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!