Hello All. Checking in after a productive weekend on the property. Now, it took us two weeks to make it up as the SouthWest had plenty of rain over the past weekend. Tried to make it up the previous Friday, but no joy on that one. Here are some pictures from the drive. Yup, that…
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April Fools Day was here (4/1/2016)
Made to the ranch Friday, late afternoon, with some guests in tow. Projects for the weekend were to pull the electrical out of the loft, wire in the bathroom, and build our new bed headboard/bookshelf. We also had some company with us Sheralee’s daughter and her friend joined us for the weekend. We really enjoyed…
New Compost Toilet & Bathroom (3/24/2016)
Since one of us is on a sabbatical, and the markets were closed on Friday, we headed up to the property Thursday afternoon. We had a couple things to accomplish this weekend, the main ones being building our new indoor composting toilet, removing the stairs to the loft, and removing the old front door and…
Grinding, grinding, and more grinding (3/11/2016)
I thought I had better post before heading back up to the ranch tomorrow (now today as I finish this) for the weekend. I went up last Friday with the intention of working through the weekend, along with Monday and Tuesday. I pretty much did, with some job ‘related’ getting in my way on Tuesday,…
First Really Nice Weekend (2/13/16)
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…
First Big Issue (1/30/16)
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…
Inside Work & Mobile Water Pump (12/12/2015)
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)…
Wood Stove (“Frodo”) Installation (11/21/2015)
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…
Siding is on!!! (11/14/2015)
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…
Utility Shed Build 3 & Solar Install
This past weekend I head up to the ranch alone. Sheralee had her work seminar weekend in town, so I decided to head up Thursday afternoon. I would work from there on Friday and still be able to get a good amount of work done. My goal for the weekend was to finish the utility…