It was an usually warm weekend in the desert Southwest, so we decided to head to the property, and it turned out a great idea. What a beautiful weather weekend for us. Arrived Saturday morning, unloaded and got organized, then headed into Chino for some hay bales and ladder. Stopped and picked up a couple…
All posts in February 2015
Snow Bound (January 2015)
Stopped by the property after a great couple of day in the valley of the sun visiting Fred and Katherine. The weekend had been a winter weather event in most of the Southwest, and our property was no exception. You can see by the picture below, there was most definitely snow to be found. Of…
New Ranch Member (October 31, 2014)
“Here comes Rusty…”. Yes, we purchased a 20 foot shipping container. We had been tossing around the idea for some time, but once we saw this one local to our property, we knew it was the right choice. It has been somewhat modified (see the small windows and roof support) for another customer, but that…
Composting Project (October 2014)
We headed back in October to start work on our composting pit. We have decided to make two compost piles/pits and use one per year to build, while we use the contents of the other as fertilizer. We are doing two 4×4 pits, a foot into the ground. First stage is digging them out and…
Another Visit w/ Guests (October 2014)
A couple weeks after our “ship to shore” experience, we headed up again to our property, with a few special guests. This weekend we brought with us free labor, in the name of Rylee, Baylee, and our protector Lola. Although, by the end of the weekend Lola’s poor city feet had had enough. Weather…
Monsoon Season (September 2014)
I had been emailing back and forth with one of our ranch (larger ranch) board members about one of the roads going through our property that wasn’t being maintained, and we believed it should be. So, after bringing it up the work was about to be done. I mentioned to him that we might be…
First Visit (September 2014)
After officially closing on the property (Aug 28th), our first planned visit was the second weekend in September. Sheralee, Rylee, and I visited our new ranch to try and map out our borders. We used stakes and twine to mark out our perimeter (no entrenched bunkers…yet) for each side, and realized soon enough, it…
Land Found! (July 2014)
In July of 2014, we found the land that would be our future. We stepped on to that land and within minutes knew it was our future.