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…
Closets & Doors (3/18/2016)
We headed up again this past weekend to do a couple major tasks. 1. Build out the closets, with shelving and coverings 2. Move the bed downstairs from the loft 3. Rebuild the bed frame downstairs, without the rails we had previously. 4. Finish cutting the door connecting our two containers. Upon arrival Friday afternoon,…
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,…
New Solar and Misc. Projects (3/2/2016)
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…
Wood Floors Part II (2/20/16)
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…
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…
New Years Weekend (12/31/15)
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.…
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)…