We headed up to the property this weekend, with ‘lofty’ goals. Yes, that is a pun, and definitely intended. We made it out of town in a record time and the drive was pretty uneventful, until we got close to Seligman, AZ. Massive thunderstorms overhead and a wall of water coming down from the sky…pretty cool to see, but maybe not to drive through. No worries, made it ok.
As we drove into our property, we ran into a group of three Javelina, kinda like a small wild pig…but not quite. Very interesting to see…we didn’t even know they were in Arizona, but apparently they are.
Since we loaded up the trailer with plywood subfloor, we had to run into town to fill up our 65 gallon water tank early Saturday morning. Someone tried to wrangle in a horse on the way out of the ranch, but no success once again. They really don’t want anything to do with us.
After heading to the water station we realized we weren’t the only ones for an early morning fill. We had to wait little bit for someone to finish filling what looked like a 1,000 gallon tank on the back of an old U-Haul pickup truck. For us, it is an easy $.50, and we are off.
Heading back up to the property it was time to get started on a couple projects. We wanted to insulate the stair structure flooring, so we used 3/4″ foam board and then spray foamed the cracked and any remaining areas.
That was just about it for Saturday. We also purchased a nice sun shade umbrella, which Sheralee got setup for us, and I did some wood cutting with my new chainsaw blade…oh what a difference.
Sunday morning we hit it hard early finishing the sub floor of the stair structure.
We set up our riser boards (2×12’s) to see what our new stairs would look like…and to get a feel of the area in the entry. All seems to be going according to plan.
We added some house wrap on the subfloor as we don’t really know when we will add the outside walls of the structure. The other project we did was made a temporary tent foundation, which I don’t have pictures of, but I am sure it looks great. This way whomever sleeps in our tent will be up off the ground and the tent won’t be subjected to any water…which there seems to be a lot of this year!
I started some wall framing, did the easiest one first of course. The front will have a 30″ door, and security door, and the back will have a 36″x12″ sliding window. That framing is coming. This picture really gives you and idea of how the space will work for us.
Speaking of rain, yes those are dark clouds coming, and yes right after this we got some major rain that came through. We think it was remnants from a big time thunder cell that went through Chino Valley a little earlier. We quickly packed up and headed to the water shed, which is a great rain cover. Sat in there for some adult beverages with chips and salsa….what a way to watch a nice thunderstorm roll through. A benefit of the storm though, we had some nice rain captured in our tank…and man that rain water coming in is cold!!!! So very cool to see.
That is it for this week. We are up again on Friday for some more project stuff. Hopefully loft sub floor and stair risers! Until next time!