Ha, I don't know about extreme heat (I'm used to 40?C + summers!), but it will be a bit drier than the UK, that's for sure!
I'll have to get there first, which might take a month or two. And yes, I will setup a website and blog and keep a posting here now and then, too! I will still have loads of questions, of course, being a 'newbie' (at 58...)
Water-supply is reliable from the (covered) well (which will end up with pipes underground into the house with a pump) and I will setup filtered rainwater collection and proper drainage, too. The 'stove' is a bricked-in arrangement in the kitchen, the back wall heating the room behind. A slow wood-burner will be installed in the larger room against the inside wall. I'll see if it's possible to put a water-tank behind the stove and add a couple of radiators...To start with the ceiling will have to be insulated from the topside and flooring installed in the 'loft', which will also eventually get lagged under the roof, too.
No such thing as snowed in (I hope!), there's always been a way around that somehow, but again, we will see: And there's never a shortage of things 'to do' either. The 'front room' will initially be a workshop for all the projects to set up house with all the woodwork hand-tools + bandsaw, workbench, pillar drill, grinder and sanders (I'm a pattern-maker by trade) and My AC-TIG and gas-axe and jewellery-bench.
There will be plenty to get on with setting up veg and fruit and a few chickens and maybe geese (alarm-system!), sorting fencing and the 'guest-house', as well as building a real shed of decent proportions to work in once the inside is sorted, and a lean-to for the necessary enclosed vehicle. All probably after the next winter!
No sense in rushing anything!