No Driveway

Well our plans for a driveway didn't pan out, although we did make it to the property during the week. I determind True South (TS) as compared to the west edge of the property and found that TS is 6 degrees outside the propertly line from the corner. If you look at the figure to the left, the red line is the true north-south line. So you can see, that the property line is not quite aligned to TS.

In the end, I plan to rotate the house 10 degrees east of TS, which will open us up more to the east, which is where the mountains are. This means that we will be at a 16 degree angle to the property line and a 10 degree angle to TS.

At this point it looks like I will get the foundation ready (1" to 3" rubble in a 24" deep 14" wide trench compacted with each 4" to 6" layer) and then order the Adobe and work to build. If we can have this done by the end of September in 2012, we'd be happy. I will post the plans in a week or so.