IT IS POSITIVELY IMPOSSIBLE IT TO GET EXACT RIGHT ANGLES ON A BIG ASS GIANT RECTANGLE THAT WEIGHS A THOUSAND POUNDS, in case you were wondering.

we rented a post-hole-digger, a beast of a machine, a giant cork screw you hold onto for dear life as it jackhammers through the ground. we dug 8 holes, 8 very annoying & exhausting moments of my life.

my dad dropped the posts in the next day, filled the holes in with concrete & mud, then cut them all off level. we're building it off the ground so that we can crawl under & add insulation later, should the bare floor prove too cold for NC winters (i.e. cheap bastards).

the space is going to be 12'x20' with a slant roof & a loft, kinda like the XT-house shown here. there's a habitat-for-humanity recycle store in pittsboro that sells used windows/sinks/light fixtures etc from houses they've torn down. super cheap stuff, plus you can find some really fancy crap if you're there as often as we are. i got a big glass door & a 6'x6' window for the front side of the cabin, plus a little crank window for the loft. we'll add two more windows when we build the side walls.