Posted in Announcements on Jul 27th, 2007 No Comments »
We’ve moved most of our stuff to storage, I’m working on getting my office setup and we’ve got a basic camp setup on the property. We’ll be improving it as we go and pictures will likely follow next week but I just wanted to let everyone know that we’re here and it’s going well.
Posted in Pictures, Workshop on Jul 18th, 2007 3 Comments »
I’ve spent the last two weekends working on my workshop. The focus has largely been the roof rafters, but I did put up some wall sheathing to help keep the structure stable.
After having worked on the rafters, I’m very glad that our house will not have standard rafters with a bird’s mouth. I spent several […]
Posted in General, Pictures on Jul 14th, 2007 No Comments »
Look what we had delivered on Wednesday!
You don’t think this looks so great? Well, here’s the alternative…
Posted in Pictures on Jul 11th, 2007 No Comments »
I took some shots of our well when I was up there last weekend. It sure looks like a nice little package and I’m looking forward to running it.
This is the “front” of the well. The motor/pump controller is on the left, the tank is the blue bit on the right and our electical box […]
Posted in General on Jul 10th, 2007 5 Comments »
It was a simple task.
Install a new mailbox at our property so that we could start receiving mail after we move up there.
I borrowed a post hole digger and a pick.
I measured the height of the other mailboxes there and decided that 39″ above ground and 18″ below ground would give me a nice base […]
Posted in General on Jul 2nd, 2007 No Comments »
When we bought the property, there was already a well on it which saved us the cost and trouble of having one dug - especially because the well is 480 feet deep. About a week and a half ago, we had someone install a pump and pressure tank for the well. It’s a pretty neat […]
Posted in Workshop on Jul 2nd, 2007 4 Comments »
I was up again over the weekend, continuing construction on my workshop. This installment was walls.
This is the lumber that’s left from my drop after I got the floor built. I stacked it on the deck and covered it with a tarp before I left last time.
I calculated that I needed 47 studs for my […]