It seems like my dreams become dimmer upon revealing them to other, less open minded people. I don't think many people I know irl "get" what we're trying to do. And I guess I do gloss over it a bit with people whom I know I have no chance of convincing. So I'll say we're moving into the mobile home until we can build, so that glossy eyed look of bewilderment goes away somewhat. It makes me sad that most people don't understand why living sustainably is a good thing. Why being able to rely on yourself for what little you really need is so important.

If I told people we're going to add on a cordwood addition to the mobile home and that will be our permanent home, if would confirm to them our "freak" status and they would be even more convinced we have no idea what we're doing.

It would be so nice to have at least one person in my family or circle of friends "get" this. But I guess this all comes back to my approval seeking tendencies. I shouldn't need them to get it, I should just revel in the fact our dreams are going to be coming into fruition.

On the dream front, I hate how slowly things are going! I want to get this damned permit so we can move the mobile home and start putting in our wood floors and our drywall, our windows and cabinets. I'm tired of every single thing being so utterly slow. I'm still waiting on that drawing with the layout of the septic system. He finally said over a week ago that he needed the mobile home moved before he could do the drawing (and of course, he never told us that at any point prior). Well, uh, no, that's not the case. The Health Dept says that the home cannot be moved without the permit. So I get this guy a copy of the drawing we did with everything plotted out and I tell him to work from that. Hoping against hope he'll be able to and we can get this show on the road.

It's these kinds of things that take the sparkle out of the dream a bit.