A Green Oportunity

Not a lot of posts in May, so I better get a good start here in June.

So, what's been goin' on for the past week and a half? Well, to be honest, not a lot. I made the decision to take down the rest of the wood paneling inside the house. It seems to me that having too much wood is not a bad thing. And hey, it gives me something to do.

That was last weekend. I wish I had some pics, but I left my camera at home and to be honest, it doesn't really look like I did anything anyway. Cailin came and hung out with me though. She helped move some wood around and played with Ann's old doll house which is sitting in the garage.

Oh, I suppose you might be asking what's going on with real construction. Well, we have our pre-construction meeting tomorrow (TH) with MOC. I guess we'll go over exciting stuff like where the dumpster should go and the change order process, but we'll also get a first glance of our schedule. Any bets on when this thing will be projected to be done? Ugh, I hope it's before Dec.

Oh, one exciting thing that's popped up. Well, for me anyway, is that MOC has a free resource who's going to be working with us on LEED for Homes and Minnesota Greenstar certification. Apparently, Mike Otto doesn't think any adjustments will have to be made to reach at least a basic level of certification and this free resource is looking to do exactly that thing.

I had kind of given up hope on the certification after all the cost cutting we did and frankly just got too tied up in that process anyway to spend me time on how "green" we could be. I'm happy though as it was something I looked a lot at after buying the house.