Labor of love....

[loghouse511]

I was going through some pictures,saw these and thought some of you may enjoy them. Please, don't think I am crazy when you see, what I undertook.
I am going to post, some of the pictures as, before, and I will post some after.
I do not type very well,so just bear, with me

 

[alakodiak]

LA, that building looks familar - where abouts in LA is it?

 

[loghouse511]

Big,Beautiful,Baldwin,County

 

[alakodiak]

I have probably driven past your place - wife's family farms all over Baldwin county but mainly in the F'hope area. Glad to see another LA member on the forum.

 

[loghouse511]

An old Dairy barn,well what's left of it

 

[loghouse511]

Alakodiak,

Yes, I live, in South Central Baldwin Count, not far from Fairhope

 

[loghouse511]

The first picture, is of the back of the house on the day I closed on the property.

The second picture, is of the front of the house same day

Third picture, future pond site.

 

[loghouse511]

First tree down. Progress?

 

[loghouse511]

The first 1 picture is a severely deteriorated log

The next is 1 that we cleaned up, we are going to fill it, much like you would a rotten tooth

 

[loghouse511]

Picture 1, taking old roof off off

Picture 2, new roof going on

Picture 3, looking a little better

Picture 4, decided to use 3/8 b/cx, treated plywood to get the look I wanted

 

[loghouse511]

I, am taking a shortcut. This, is the way, it looks today.

 

[teg]

Nice transformation!!! Love the pond...

 

[hobie]

Beautiful! Nice job! What a great place you've made.

 

[Bird]

Mighty pretty place now. You've done a great job. I'm curious as to how long, or how many man hours the transformation took.

 

[loghouse511]

Bird,

The hours, were countless. Like, I said it has been a labor of love and, it is

ongoing

Thanks, to all for your nice comments. I am humbled.

Ray

 

[loghouse511]

I found these, when I was rehabbing, the old dairy barn. I have never seen any in color.

Have any of you?

 

[OKnewguy]

I believe it all comes down to where the mud dobbers were getting there supply of mud. Maybe during the construction of your pond they got some of that dark red clay, and some of there older stuff is more sandy. All the ones that we have in central OK are clay red.
Dave
P.S. The place looks great! It takes a special person to see the potential in a place.