Somewhere along the line our electric fence controller that energizes the livestock electric fence got unplugged.  I first noticed it was unplugged a week or so ago, but never got around to plugging it back in mostly because I didn’t have the time to fix any shorts I knew were inevitable as a result of [...]

Filed under: Farm on September 27th, 2009 | 2 Comments »

The weather is finally beginning to feel more like Autumn.  After several weeks of abnormal highs in the mid 70′s to 80′s, the temperatures are getting more inline with the averages for this time of year, although it still continues to be a bit warmer than normal. We had the threat of rain for several [...]

Filed under: Building Construction 2009-10, Home, Home Projects on September 24th, 2009 | 7 Comments »

I cut a few trees down near the new building last week again and my McCulloch “Eager Beaver” chainsaw, coupled with a less-than-sharp chain struggled through two of them. It still runs great, but bogs down due to lack of power on some larger and harder trees, although I’m sure the dull chain was mostly [...]

Filed under: Home Projects on September 20th, 2009 | No Comments »

Work continues on the new building at a slower pace. The last few days they added rigid foam insulation to the insides of the foundation walls, installed drain tile outside the foundation walls, and then backfilled the foundation. Steve managed to find us some only slightly used sheets of 2 inch extruded polystyrene for the [...]

Filed under: Building Construction 2009-10, Home, Home Projects on September 19th, 2009 | No Comments »