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.…
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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)…
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…
Utility Shed Build 2 & Deck Extension (10/2/15)
Well, it has been two weeks since my last update. We have been to the property, and very busy, but upon leaving the prior weekend, I forgot to capture our progress, so I decided to skip a week. We are back on track now, blog wise. After returning last night, it is time to get…
Utility Shed Build 1 (9/18/15)
Headed up Friday afternoon ready to start another weekend of projects. You could tell we had some rain throughout the week, but for the most part the roads were dry and easy to transit. Our water tank is probably at 1,000 gallons just waiting for me to get the power/pumping working! Can’t wait. So, in…
Rain Water Harvesting Phase 1 Wrap-Up (6/5/15)
Rainwater Phase I is now in the books. Meaning, the structure is built and the roof is on. Now comes Phase II, which is adding the plumbing and getting rainwater into the tank. Phase III comes later, which is how to get the water out of the tank for consumption. This past weekend we finished…