At Home In The Woods

[radioman]

Oh, and have you thought ahead to how you are getting interenet, TV and phone to the house? Not just in the house but to it? Cable and Sat guys have a tendancy to not really care about how your house looks, and bolt their gear wherever they feel like it.

Anyway. Nothing sucks more than getting your house done and then having a bunch of wires running under the eaves.

Carl

OY OY! I can attest to this. I put new siding on my old house, planning on selling it, ended up being a landlord. I had new cable wiring put inside and hidden away, the cable guys came out and drilled holes right into the siding, I told them to wait for me to be there, but they did it anyway. GRRRR. All they had to do was hook up the original wiring and all would be good. Now I have cables stapled on the outside of the siding, holes drilled in new siding with no grommets or watertight protection. You have no idea how mad this makes me.

 

[EddieWalker]

High-quality semi-gloss everywhere in the interior, makes wiping up those little hand prints and crayon marks that much easier :thumbsup:

I disagree with semi gloss on walls. The shine to it reflects light and shows imprefections in the walls. While it might like your studs are all perfectly straight, they are not. And if they are today, at least one will move on you over the years, with the likelyhood that several will move on you. It's not much, and most people never notice it. The ones who do are the ones with shiny wallsy.

Flat paint hides everything the best and is why it's used on ceilings so often. Even with 5/8 sheetrock on the ceilings, that's where you notice the wave and shape of the rafters the most. Rougher texture and the dreaded popcorn on the ceiling hide allot of this too.

I use eggshell or satin on the walls and semi gloss fro trim and doors. This is very common and how most homes are painted.

Eddie

 

[dcyrilc]

Obed,
Keep your chin up. It won't be long and you'll be looking at interior paint and trying to decide between eggshell and off-white. LOL

Give our best to the misses and the little one.

See, it hasn't even been two months and here you are asking about paint.:thumbsup:

Glad to hear that things are going smoother for you.

 

[eepete]

If you've still got trenches open out to the power area, toss in a 3/4" black PE pipe for when you want to put something out there (driveway sensor, weather station). If all you've got is a little bit of the trench by the house, toss some pipe (or conduit or scrap pipe) in there in case you want to put something outside. Digging that up when you're all done will be extremely difficult.

Put the pipe in, a little sand or gravel near the end, marker tape 1' above it, measure and record the location.

Pete

 

[Obed]

Here's the only H&A picture I have so far.

 

[Obed]

Today I took the day off. It's nice to get a day to rest.

This morning the wife took a picture of this wild turkey that was 20 feet from our camper.

This evening the wife, baby, and I took a hike through the woods starting at our property.

 

[Obed]

Yesterday I took some pictures of the property now that we have some leaves. It certainly looks different now.

 

[Obed]

Yesterday I did tractor work all day. Lots of seat time!

I used the backhoe to break up some concrete where a concrete truck had rinsed out the truck.

I used the concrete pieces for riprap below the driveway culvert.

 

[Obed]

I scraped off a lot of gravel in places where I didn't want gravel.

Here I scraped off gravel from the front yard.

Here's where the electric, gas, water, and phone lines will cross the driveway. The transformer and yellow gas line are on the left. I scraped off the gravel so it can be re-used after the trenches are dug and backfilled. At $400 per load, I figured it was worth a little time and diesel to try to save some of it.

 

[Obed]

I needed to move part of this pile of topsoil in order to make way for the electrical trench.

The dirt was packed pretty hard and was causing me some difficulty digging it with the FEL. So I loosened it with the backhoe.