Met up with Elias Sharp to plan the driveway, which now will be placed more to the left, due to the big 42″ pipe that would make making a driveway on the right side more difficult.
This is how the driveway plan is now;

The plan is submitted to Comal County, and an engineer will come over tomorrow morning to check and discuss.
Probably it will require a 12″ pipe to allow water to flow under the driveway near Appaloosa drive.
A smaller pipe will be added further up the driveway, to prevent the crushed limestone to wash down with heavy rain.

In the afternoon, I solved a property tax problem by going to Comal County Office in New Braunfels; a fine I got because the previous owners had not paid up was lifted.

It gives a good overview of the size of the home compared to the lot.
The length of the driveway will be about 30 meters (100 ft)

Today (Thursday 23rd) the County engineer approved the driveway. It will take three 18″ arched culvert pipes made of corrugated metal to prevent rain washing the base (crushed limestone like stuff) of the driveway away. With some luck, both the pipes and the base can be delivered tomorrow.

Coming back I took a few pictures in Wimberley, the best known village near Uzuye Lodge.

The following images are from Wimberley square and Cyprus Creek, that flows through Wimberley.

The sawmill is a few miles down the road, where Neil Buie is making the dovetailed logs.
The logs are cut to size and put in place off the building site first.

Me in front of what will be the front wall. The Cedar wood is grey now, but will be sanded down when the Cabin is placed on-site,
so then the color will be more like the top log you can see here.

Standing inside the Loghome.

Shot at an angle. On this side the addition (not visible here yet) will almost double the first floor square footage.

Here you can see where the 2nd floor will be; the top three logs are walls for the 2nd floor.

On top of those logs there will be 4 of these trusses that will support the roof.
The Log home builder Neil Buie is posing to get a sense of proportion.

I encountered my first native inhabitant;

Today I was back on what I can now call my land for the first time. I had been there before obviously, but then I was scouting locations.
Now, as the official owner it is a nice feeling to be driving somewhere that I can also call home in the hopefully near future.
I made a few shots of views and the stakes, showing the borders of my lot.

The corners are now “staked”; indicated by pink ribbons;

Looking up from Appaloosa drive, this is what you see;

Now I know what a 42″ CMP is;

From the top the view is something like this;

From the lower part the view is like this;

through the snail mail I received the official approval for the house plans; 

Welcome to Ozuye.com. This blog will keep you informed on the progress of the build of Ozuye lodge, Warriors home in Texas.
Ozuye is Lakota for Warrior, which is the translation of the Dutch name of the owner of Ozuye lodge; Krijger. The Lakota Native American tribe lived in the the Texas Hill Country in the 14th century.