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What are you doing today, II

Same thing I did yesterday. Sitting in a Caterpillar pulling a soil finisher diagonally across fall disc ripped corn stalks.
This levels the ground so when we spray on fertilizer/herbicide mix we don't bury it in the low and high spots of a rough field.
The finisher also has a single disc in the front with narrow spacings to slice the crop residue and bury it.
Traveling at about 7.4 mph which is not slow by any means. In a wheeled tractor I would hate to say how bad the ride would be.
But on tracks the ride is boat like, as it bridges the high and low spots with the tracks.
Rain coming Monday night for several days. We need it badly, but I also want this operation done before then. We should be done and moved home some time on Sunday...
 
Pictures of the house site and JD 310 at Hippie Ridge.

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I wanted to dam the creek to make a small pond. However, conservation Dept was not co-operative and frankly I didn't have the time. Creek did it spontaneously.

More than 50 feet long, 20 feet wide not counting the cove and right now about four feet deep.

Water is spring fed and cold enough for trout and/or really tasty blue gill. It would not be at all difficult to move a few rocks into the creek at the natural dam and bring depth to 6 feet of clear cold water.

Believe it or not, this is where I used to ford the creek in my Jeep. Mother nature said "NOPE! Not here."


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The house will be set to the left of the shed. About 12 feet from the shed. That shed will be modified with a bathtub, toilet and vanity sink along with an over/under laundry. It will also house the incoming 220/110 Volt AC power supply from the local electric utility and the gravity water supply system.

A breezeway will connect with mostly glass walls and doors. I bought these units years ago. mostly slab glass doors which we can remove in summer and replace in winter. I have two slab glass door units for the west and east sides so it will all match. Sorta. Despite having collected much of the windows and doors over years, I hope not to look like the Crocodile Dundee shack in his movie.

The house faces west as seen in the photo which is shot to the west. There will be two sliding glass doors on either side of the existing front door. A deck in front of the house will allow views of the valley below at sunset. Also, from the Bedroom and Family areas.

It is an ambitious project, yes. But I'm up to it if given the time. After all, I am only 75.
 
Same thing I was doing last Thursday. Clearing f$&$&$*g snow. I don't mind in the winter when it's colder but this heavy wet crap can stop any time now. We've had a storm every week since mid March. We ended up with a foot of it. I did what I could with the plow truck this morning without making a muddy mess everywhere. The snow was melting and the driveway was a wet muddy mess then it rained last night turning to snow overnight. Lovely.
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Cooked some nice rare/med-rare Rib Eye steak with bacon scalloped potatoes, roasted tomatoes as side dishes. Tonight I'm off to the fencing club for our beginners tournament.
 
I've been extremely busy with work, but I like it.
Feeling better since the bug which got me down for a few days.
Another busy day here trying to get caught up on domestic stuff, but that can wait until tomorrow.
My eldest granddaughter Kasey is going to be 20 years old on Saturday.
Where oh where has the time gone?
 
Did a good bit of reorganizing the food storage, placing every boxed and bagged item into sealed bins. Each bin is a different category of food. So one bin is PASTA but another bin is PASTA MEALS (hamburger helper, mac & cheese, etc) while others are RICE, INDIAN, BREAD MIX, COOKIE & BROWNIES, etc etc etc. Labeled the bins. Marked the heavy bins with a tag that says HEAVY so the lovely Mrs_Bob calls for help. Also put the heavy bins on lower shelves.
 
It was raining all week and HippieRidge was a mess of mud. We had the tiny house ( a Forest River 22 foot minicamper) all tuned up to go out there but the roads were too unstable. Because of the mud the three 12 ton loads of gravel were not delivered, so nothing to do but put our chemicals for ticks and critters and some Brush Kill in the drive way.

Far too windy for a fire so Crumpy cut some trees down to thin the forest a bit around the house site. We have to clear brush and trees some 100 yards from the house for the frequent grass fires that pop up.

Except for the road coming into the property, we are ready for the prefab shell. Either I get ballast rock on the muddy areas or we wait dries up. Once that building is in place, I can postpone any interior construction until fall and move on to other projects.

A huge 36 X 16 deck andthe bathhouse, being paramount.
 
Yesterday brought us 3" of snow. Soil temps are in the high 30's.
Winter seems to keep us in it's grip. With rain coming mid week, this week will go with out any progress planting crops.
Must be the fault of Global warming lol..
Just pacing the floors wondering when the day will come to start planting.
 
300 H and H said:
Yesterday brought us 3" of snow. Soil temps are in the high 30's.
Winter seems to keep us in it's grip. With rain coming mid week, this week will go with out any progress planting crops.
Must be the fault of Global warming lol..
Just pacing the floors wondering when the day will come to start planting.
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Enduring the same dilemma for farmers since the dawn of cultivation. Sorry to hear that Kirk. Don't wear out the linoleum.
 
Spent the Easter weekend dodging rain drops. Too muddy to do tractor work.

Still,
Came into work today tired and sore.
As usual, typical Monday labor shortages.
Of 16 people on the payroll, only10 showed up today.
Never had this problem before. Literally, out of 16people at least two or three have, "something else to do" every day. I have never seen a work ethic like this.
 
Helloooooo.
Haven't been doing anything thrilling or worth talking about lately.
The job is going well, I'm keeping up and absolutely loving it.
Going to bed early is often a pain in the ass, but that comes with the territory.
That's it.
 
Happy Wednesday. Of course it's Wednesday. We have yet another SNOW storm coming later today. This time last year I was raking my lawn and opening up camp. We still have 3 feet of snow in spots. Oh well, things could be worse.
 
Wednesday already? WOW!
I spent yesterday evening working on the Cedar fence I put up last year. I am putting a 2X6 shelf on much of it at about four feet above grade. Mostly to stiffen it up. However, it will give the squirrels a run instead of the narrow fence top as their claws are damaging that. I will be putting a 2X4 valance under the shelf and adding LED lighting.

This will put soft light on the back gardens at night. Hopefully, being concealed under the shelf, the squirrels won't chew the wires as they have in the past.

Today is cold and raining so I doubt much will get done outside. I am sooooooo done with winter.
 
I ended up down on the 'merican side of the border this morning for a quick trip to pick up some brake rotors and pads for the f150. Why bother ordering from the states? Well, for just one rotor up here was $280. I needed both front rotors, pads, and new hubs. Cost would have been well over $1000 by the time I was done here.

So I ordered a set of hubs a couple weeks ago and went down last week to get them. When I went to install them, I discovered that my pads and rotors were shot. So I ordered those too and made a second trip down. It's only a 45 minute drive from my house. Total cost for hubs was $86 for both. And another $146 for the rotors and pads.

I was back home by 11:30am and immediately went to work installing everything.
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I missed being able to order things to the border and pick them up. The guberment up here previously had a mandatory covid test requirement (of course they wanted the more expensive test) for anyone returning to Canada for the past 2 years. They lifted that requirement April 1st.
 
Off to Hippie Ridge this weekend. Hopefully it has dried enough to get the tiny camper in.

My son will be moving his 36-foot RV there next week with plans to stay. So, I have to get the wiring in for his unit and reset the drains to the septic system.
 
I'm off now until Tuesday. Yay!
Today was an all staff inservice meeting as we're in the window for state inspection.
You know what that means.
Make sure it's all in order.
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We mowed the front lawn and cleaned house. Now I'm having a brew.
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Mowed the lawn? I won't be able to do that until at least mid June. We still have 2ft of snow and got 3" of rain yesterday. Roads are flooding everywhere and THE MAIN ARTERY highway that connects eastern Canada to western Canada is at risk of washing out only a few miles from my place. We're still dry here but the sump pump is going steady.
 
Helped my neighbour nextdoor pack for a trip to Cancun.
Nice lady.
She hates flying. Just like me lol
Made a super cheap supper, chicken a la king and green beans.
Watching the weather situation because it may storm heavily they say.
That doesn't really bother me like it used to.
El Cheapo good grub.
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Nice. Two of my band mates just left on a cruise. Wish I was there instead of dealing with flooding here.

Our second oldest son just finished driver's ed and is going for is license to drive alone on Tuesday so I took him out practicing in the vehicle he's going to be taking the test in yesterday during the monsoon rain storm. I figured if he's going to be able to drive alone, I want him to be able to handle any situation under pressure. Of course there were sections of the road that were flooded which he drove through as I walked him through it. Just last week I had him driving through near whiteout conditions with 6" of snow on the road to get to work.

My theory is that anyone can drive on a drive road on a sunny day. But many people panic and end up in the ditch as soon as there's 2 snowflakes in the air. I want my kids to be comfortable in any situation on the road.
 
Of the 17 people on my payroll, only 7, that's SEVEN," made it to work this morning.

Two said they weren't cut out or what we do here.
One simply did not show
Five claim they have a new version of Flu,,, whatever that is.
Two have a habit of missing Monday's

What happened to American work ethics?

Some here might remember the Japanize beating our butt's back in the 70's. President Reagan spurred us on to bear down and compete. And we did.
Making the 80's and 90's the most prosperous in our nation's history.

Now our gubmit says, "Don't worry, we'll send you stimulus checks."
Really?

Leadership matters.
 
We took the "Tiny House" a 22 foot Foret River with all the bells and whistles one could fit in a 22 footer. Plans were to place it in the spot where our old 32 foot Mallard sat for 15 years with a 30' X 10' deck.

Then my son decided to put his 32 footer next to the deck.

So,

Last Saturday the boss calculated another spot. After consideration of about five options she determined what has to have been the most difficult to reach with the Tractor, and it just barely fit between the trees but,,, but we made it work.

I carved out another space and loaded it with new gravel. Once placed we sat and watched the sunset from the new and considerably better location.

This will act as an over-nite place to eat and sleep until the house is set and finished

Pictures coming later.
 
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