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Since I was off the first half of the week last week, I decided to head to the ranch on Wednesday last week. I could work remotely Thursday and Friday, and then get some stuff done after work and on the weekend. Upon arriving Wednesday I found that indeed the batteries were not being charged…
We made it back up to the ranch early Saturday morning, a beautiful day once again. First thing, of course, I check on is the solar…wha wha wha…and it is bad once again. Found a bad connection on the DC input of the charge controller…where I had melted wires/inputs on former charge controllers. Same thing…
We are back at it again, hopefully full force now…if the weather holds up. The weather this weekend was sunny and close to 70 degrees, just great…although it dropped to about freezing at night. The wood stove worked great, and having a nice big fire outside didn’t hurt either. We brought along our new weekend…
Well, finally made it back to the property after some heavy winter weather that made our roads impassible. Sheralee and I headed up on Saturday the 16th to drop off some railroad ties/materials for our new container to be dropped off and located. After stopping in Kingman to get the materials, we headed up to…
Hello All! A new year is upon us, and there are big things planned of this year, but we won’t really move to quickly for a few months in order to gather up our new plans and resources. Until then, we go up and enjoy our time there, working on small things that we need.…
We headed up to the ranch early Saturday morning, knowing that they had a dusting of snow the night before. The ranch roads were a little wet (muddy), but nothing major. When we arrived on the property we had a great dusting of snow, and it was already melting (into the water tank of course)…
After a long holiday break, and reworking our entire layout….based around some issues with our first wood stove install, we headed back to the property to remedy our issues and start anew. Our first stove install did not quite go as planned, well it did, but our plan was flawed. In our container there was…
Hello All, We headed up Saturday morning with the intention of doing nothing but installing our new Hobbit SE wood stove, now nicknamed ‘Frodo’. Our first stop early Saturday morning was hitting the HD store in Kingman, where our Duravent ‘through-wall’ chimney kit, and chimney section awaited us. We were there early, and picked up…
Guess what we have now? That is right…SIDING! No more house wrap flapping in the wind. This is huge for us, and we couldn’t have gotten it done without our friend John coming into town to lend a hand. He really is the ‘ladder king’. Thank you John!!! We arrived on Saturday to nice bright…
Sheralee and I headed up early early Saturday morning to the property. We knew there had been snow earlier in the week, but pretty much all gone, except some white in the shadows of trees. Very cool, but kinda chilly during the day.. Our first goal was to finish our entry way lighting. We came…