Simplicity - less, less, less

As we pack our stuff to take up to Phelps Lane, there are certain things that will not be allowed into the new house. I am not going to take any unecessary appliances, like coffee grinders. I just ordered a hand grinder. When did we stop using hand ones to get electric ones? I actually have been using a wooden clothes hanger for drying my clothes instead of the dryer. They dry in 8 hours or less, so why do we need dryers. Rod does not know this, but will when he reads it here, but the dish washer up north is going to be sold on ebay. I have always hated dish washers; scrap the dishes, rinse them off, load the dish washer, unload the dish washer etc. Alternative, scrap, wash, dry, put away, in one cycle. DONE and put away The builder/current owner of our new house used a lot of green principles and in fact the new septic, (That he is having to install since the current one failed, wow are we lucky) will in all likelihood have green principles. More on that once we know what he installs. This cannot happen until after May 1st, since in South Hero you cannot use heavy equipment until after MUD season. So, nothing goes up unless it does not have an electrical cord, and unless we really need it. I want this to be a retreat so not too simple, but like Star Island, only what we really need. There might not be a TV although the house comes with 2 satellite dishes, one for broadband and one for TV. The only big problem from our house inspection, is a punky post on the south corner of the house. We may have to do some negotiations to get that paid for. An interesting "feature" of the house is a water drip so that the pipes do not freeze. Our first work weekend is going to be insulating the crawl space and caulking around all the windows and probably in between all of the outside and inside paneling. The inspector kept saying "this house is campy". Good thing that is what we were looking for. I am still very excited and hope is does fall apart because of the POST.