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 the blog up to date on things. This entry will over the 10/25 weekend as well as this past weekend. The weekend of the 25th was the Eclipse/Blood moon weekend. When we got on ranch road, after 5pm this is what greeted us.
You have to use your imagination, and that isn’t a great picture, but the moon was just rising and HUGE! Unfortuantely, we would be driving back home that Sunday during the eclipse, and just about miss the whole thing. 🙂 Bummer…..well, next time I guess. ha!
When we went up on the 25th, we wanted to do a couple things, extend the deck again, install some plexiglass in the loft, and continue the shed with walls and siding.
First thing we did was extend the deck with another 4’x8′ 1″ piece of plywood. Added some blocking and support, then installed it.
The right side of the deck, from the patio door view, is on the cantilever part, and finally we can relax in comfort. Also notice the 2×4 bench/table Sheralee made. Fits perfectly. Oh, and the blue chairs…well, more to come on that later. ha.
Next we started on the plexiglass install and continue work on the shed. Sheralee stained the support where the plexiglass will go, and then we did this great epoxy install….what a mess! ha.
This is a picture of the stained 2×4’s that we adhered the acrylic plexiglass to.
Work on the utility shed continued on…
(this is the picture I forgot to take)
Friday, October 2nd, we drove up again. Last weekend it was near 90, sunny, and lows in the 50’s. Oh…a cold front came down from the North and now it was mid 70’s and lows near 40. Oh what a difference! ha.
This past weekend we completed the trim in the loft, looks great, continued the utility shed build, created the solar panel ground mount, and oh yeah…installed our loft roof, the for-real roof panels!! Awesome!
This is what it looked like, a couple layers of house wrap to let the rain run off. It worked well, but a real roof was long time coming. Sheralee did the install while I knee-knocked on the ladder when necessary.
We also installed a gutter drip edge in preparation for the gutter install after the siding is added. Getting closer for sure. What a great feeling of accomplishment.
We also continued the utility shed build, but first I wanted to put the solar panel mounting posts in the ground with some concrete.
I wanted to give it a good setting time, like overnight before I started the panel mount stand.
Sunday, I did the solar panel ground mount. It will be a two position mount, one for summer and one for winter. It’s current look is winter angle for better sun.
I then finished up the siding on the shed and started the battery compartment, which is a little hard to see in the final picture.
The solar panels came in last week, with the accompanying solar controller and mounting hardware. We also got our 3K watt power inverter. Finishing up a hardware list so I can start the install this coming weekend. Can’t wait!!! Our new refrigerator is just aching to be turned on and gobble up condiments! ha.
more to come next week…..