First off, HAPPY NEW YEAR! It has been a crazy end to 2016 and start of 2017. Going back to December, the last two weeks of the year, and let me start there. I worked remotely the last two weeks and spent that time on the property with Sheralee. The first weekend was wonderful, got…
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Cats On The Move (12/10/2016)
Well, it was finally time! Time to move the cats to the ranch. Sheralee and I left early morning Saturday after swooping up some cats for our 3 hour journey. All in all, it was a good trip, and somehow they arrived alive…whew. Being at the property is a first for all of them. They…
Batteries & Cat House (12/2/2016)
Hello all. Spent some time on the property last weekend, first working from up there on Friday and then doing some ‘project’ work Saturday and Sunday. First thing I did when I got there is start a dang fire, and break out my new EcoFan This thing is so very awesome! I mean to have…
Solar and Snow (11/25/2016)
Hey All. We were traveling around quite a bit this past long weekend. To the property, then to Phoenix for Thanksgiving, then LV to pick up a bed and stuff, then back to the property. Saw a lot of the same…terrain…over and over. ha. All worked out. We had a lot of things going on…
Back On Track (or Rails) (5/13/2016)
After a three week absence, mainly due to weather in Arizona and Mother’s Day, we finally made it back to the ranch. Last we were on the property, the annual road maintenance had just begun, how exciting. Well, not sure how far that went. With two weeks of good rain, the roads are back to…
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…
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…
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…