tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52000386931994770042024-03-13T11:44:29.515-05:00Big Horn Basin WyomingFaye http://www.blogger.com/profile/14684673026389717730noreply@blogger.comBlogger85125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200038693199477004.post-6314544071878638632020-11-24T10:14:00.010-06:002020-11-24T10:24:00.202-06:00We have a big hole in the gound!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Well, we have a nice big hole in the ground. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The basement was dug Oct. 28 and as all of 2020 has been so far, this is another typical 2020 crazy thing.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The company that dug the hole is excellent, no complaints there but our contractor...well.....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">He didn't tell us until we got out there that he was contracting out the cement work.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We set this up in July 2020 and patiently waited until the builder was ready to begin, finally the middle of October he told us he's ready, we packed up, got out there asap.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">After the hole was dug we had 6 maybe 7 days of 60 degree weather and no freezing temps at night, we thought how lucky are we!! We waited 5 days after the hole was dug, no one showed up. Only to find out, evidently, no one was prearranged to do the concrete. By then the temperatures we going downhill in a few more days, a lot of extra expense for warming blankets, extra labor, etc. and still no word from the concrete people. So why didn't the contractor set up the concrete work for July, August even September before freezing temps since they knew they were not doing it themselves, the concrete walls can sit there for months until the contractor is ready. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">My husband then told the contractor to call us when he hears from his concrete man, 3 weeks later...nothing.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Oh well...maybe 2021 will be a better year (ha ha not holding my breath!)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FFj5BqSTRJs/X70rXkiBdSI/AAAAAAAAGWA/qSFmP8oAEukwFgcLkw6ktM-Yq3PSHx24wCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_3314.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FFj5BqSTRJs/X70rXkiBdSI/AAAAAAAAGWA/qSFmP8oAEukwFgcLkw6ktM-Yq3PSHx24wCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h300/IMG_3314.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;">Anyway, it's interesting to walk into the dirt hole and see the different layers of stones and calcified 'something', from floods long ago. I wish we knew someone who understood what we are looking at on those dirt walls.</p><p style="text-align: center;">The view is still pretty and when I walk on top of that dirt mound I can see approximately where the 2nd floor will be and even more beautiful views of the mountains and valley.</p><br /> <p></p>Faye http://www.blogger.com/profile/14684673026389717730noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200038693199477004.post-83642606079253075222020-10-17T09:39:00.001-05:002020-10-17T09:39:21.687-05:00Building up date and testing out how blogger has changed<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: center;"> Blogger has changed, it's been so long since I have used it so this post will be a test to see what happens.</p><p style="text-align: center;">We are still set to start building in Wyoming only scaled down a bit, no thanks to the pain in the back virus screwing up everyone lives.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Everything got pushed back so this Fall will just be the basement. Hoping 2021 won't be so insane as 2020 and we will continue with the house.</p><p style="text-align: center;">I'll take pics and post here, should be about 2 more weeks if all goes well.</p></blockquote>Faye http://www.blogger.com/profile/14684673026389717730noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200038693199477004.post-29184102185842287062020-08-01T13:45:00.001-05:002020-08-01T13:47:41.025-05:00Planning to start building this Fall<div style="text-align: center;">
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Sometime in Sept/Oct I'll start posting the beginning of the new house, hopefully if all goes as planned...I say it with hesitation because so many times, for years, we were ready to start but then something came up like housing crashing, insane health insurance prices now the damn virus is messing us up but we are going to start anyway and slowly. The house may not be actually built until next spring but we can start this fall with a basement and see how things go. (The house was slotted for this May 2020 but thanks to the virus it had to be postponed....again. 2020 has been a rotten year all around)</div>
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One more year and the fun begins!</div>
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We're slow but we're back at it again. Finally the kitchen cabinets.</div>
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We're still working out west. I haven't been posting because first off I didn't have a 'safe' computer to use online and second it's just been super busy. Way too many irons in the fire!</div>
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I won't go into detail but we do have the majority of the bunkhouse finished. </div>
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It getting closer, the husband plans to retire this coming year, we plan to start getting our house in order so we can put it up for sale and get ourselves moved to Wyoming for good! It's going to be a lot of work, 30 years of stuff to pack, and we're definitely not as young as we were when we started this, we sure can tell a huge difference, this year especially. Then we'll need to find a builder...a reliable one this time...and get started on building a house. We have a few suggestions, still need to talk to them. We know exactly what we want for a house but are afraid it will look a little out of place. On the other hand we have such awesome views that how can you not take advantage of that! It's one of the reasons we bought the property in the first place, and also that the longest side borders BLM land with endless trails and roads. We want porches, lots of porches, that will make the house look huge even though it's not but seriously I could spend all day out on a porch and when the sun sets and rises some times every direction is beautiful! </div>
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Yes, it's been a while since my last post here. </div>
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We are here and have been working steadily on this place but I haven't had the time to post about it.</div>
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Today's cooler rainy weather reminds me so much of 2 years ago, on this same date, the husband was heading back here but had to wait out the big snow storm in South Dakota because the freeway was closed.</div>
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I remember only too well sitting in the little trailer, on a very dreary day about this same time, wondering where the hired help was and if this bunkhouse would ever get finished.</div>
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I posted a pretty sad post that day.</div>
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Well I can happily say I'm in the bunkhouse on this cool wet day!</div>
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Nice and warm and toasty with the heat on as warm as I want it to be.</div>
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And even better...looking out my windows at the mountains! NOT at an unfinished bunkhouse!!!!</div>
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It didn't snow very much last night up there but there does appear to be a light dusting to the left, lower down and below the bottom of the clouds. The forecast is for more snow tonight and cooler temps but then later in the day it will clear up and be back in the high 60's and low 70's all week.</div>
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Hard to believe I put my feet in Shell Creek (running out of the mountains) to cool them off just last Saturday. We went for a ride that day, it was hot...98 in Greybull just about 37 miles to the south, today it's about 52 here.</div>
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We've done a lot but it still never feels like enough. We did put down more plywood 'plank' flooring.</div>
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I absolutely love how it's turning out! I wasn't sure but it far surpasses what I was even hoping to accomplish. It really looks like 6" wide pine plank flooring!</div>
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This next week I plan to stain and poly as many 'planks' as possible. We had hoped to finish the entire building but there were so many other things that needed attention. We started with the kitchen so that the husband can install the kitchen cabinets next summer, we have the vintage stove and vintage fridge, just need the sink and faucet. We have a cool vintage farm sink that was in the little barn when we bought the place but I forgot about it when they put in the plumbing...still asking the husband if he can make it work. Right now we have 2 banquet tables set up in the kitchen with everything piled on top including 2 hot plates, I do the dishes outside on the porch but it works and I don't mind it one bit because I have HOT WATER! What a treat after doing dishes in the trailer!</div>
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No trim around the doors and windows yet, I still need to poly the windows. I'd rather get the flooring all done so I can start moving in the rest of the furniture.</div>
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I did convince the husband to put up the curtain rods so I could hang the curtains because of the echo in here. I used the Pinterest painters drop cloths and I like it. I didn't even take the time to press them, the wrinkles don't bother me...I did wash them because I don't care for the funny smell straight out of the package. Maybe next year when we take them down to add the trim I'll give them a light press.</div>
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I just couldn't help it, I'm dying to get the furniture in here and fixed up all nice and cozy but there's no sense in bringing in too much since we still have the wood floors to put down.</div>
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But I did need a dresser so there was my chance to do something fun!</div>
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Sort of a shabby chic cowgirl look.</div>
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I'm mixing vintage shabby, crochet lace, cowhides, skulls and cowgirl country...go with what I like most, right?</div>
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I sew a lot so a button shade seemed fitting (in case you're wondering what the heck is on that lamp!) the link to a DIY on my vintage blog is <a href="http://wildrosevintage.blogspot.com/2014/09/vintage-button-lamp-shade-dyi.html">HERE</a></div>
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A view off our front porch, the sun was setting, it was snowing and the snow looked pink.</div>
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The next morning we decided to go to Cody and I snapped a few pictures while he was driving.</div>
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And here he is spray painting the final color called Timeless Ivory.</div>
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Every room is that color except for the bathroom which is a little more white, called Italian Lace by Valspar.</div>
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The entire place is painted and we have moved in.</div>
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We're using hot plates to cook on and the bathroom sink to wash dishes.</div>
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I stained the interior doors today, we used 6 panel solid pine doors in keeping with the pine trim to be done next year along with continuing the plywood plank floor which I totally LOVE! I can hardly wait to see the floors finished.</div>
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We plan to install kitchen cabinets next year along with my vintage stove, refrigerator and we have an authentic old farm house sink that was in the old barn when we bought the place.</div>
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My biggest decision now? What do I decide on for cabinets???</div>
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Do I go with white and stay with the vintage 40's/50's look of the stove and fridge or do I go rustic and use something like Hickory?</div>
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Up on top, Dead Indian Hill and you can see the winding road going down the other side. We are heading north towards Cooke City, Montana (photo below)</div>
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This was a trail used by the Nez Perce Indians while being chased by the U.S. Cavalry in 1877</div>
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<br />Faye http://www.blogger.com/profile/14684673026389717730noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200038693199477004.post-48451771672057693632014-09-05T12:47:00.001-05:002014-09-05T14:09:31.619-05:00Plywood "Plank" Fooring<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We hand picked through the plywood sheets for what we thought would look the best cut into 'boards'.</div>
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The husband carefully measured and made a guide that he could clamp down in order to cut boards all the exact same width.</div>
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I used Minnwax Golden Pecan for the windows and I like it but I wanted the floor to be a tad bit darker so I added drops of Minnwax Special Walnut followed with 1 coat of Polycrylic.</div>
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They have the same coloring as the Douglas Fir siding and I'm very happy with it.</div>
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We're both very happy with the result so we will continue this flooring throughout the bunkhouse.</div>
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We're placing it randomly and using ring shank nails and face nailing the planks, surprisingly I can't even see them in the photo!</div>
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He has a small area left to do but the base trim is dry and I'm just a little anxious to get that toilet back in there so that's what he's doing now while I do this quick post.</div>
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The new construction outfit finished up. We had to give in and go with textured walls because the guy that did the sheet rock last year did such a poor job. Now that the new people have explained the correct way to install it, I understand. Last year I didn't have a clue and the guy doing it evidently didn't either...which boils down to the original carpenter (that we let go) contracted that guy to sheet rock. Either the previous carpenter didn't know how to install sheet rock or he just didn't care to take time to explain it to the the man doing it.</div>
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The new people (Alotta Cronstruction) spent extra days here trying to fix the mistakes and really wanted to give me smooth walls until finally they just had to give in and break the news to me. They did a nice job of a light texture and knock down so I'm okay with it...I have to be!</div>
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And take breaks and enjoy lunch on the front porch with this view.</div>
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<br />Faye http://www.blogger.com/profile/14684673026389717730noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200038693199477004.post-65281785053594509592014-08-28T10:33:00.000-05:002014-08-28T15:36:51.769-05:00It's finally REALLY happening!!!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
What a difference from last September!</div>
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They'll spray texture the ceilings and spray prime everything.</div>
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I wanted smooth walls and was told by the last outfit that it can't be done...well it CAN be done when you have people who know how to do it!</div>
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These guys are great! It's a father daughter team, he's been doing this for 30 years.</div>
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How we found them? My friend, Joan, just happened to see them in a parade in town.</div>
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She knew we were desperate to find someone to finish the job so we called and they could work with our time slot so we decided to give them a try. I was worried because of the last guy who caused me to more or less not trust anyone but these people proved to me that there are trustworthy people still out there that can do the work and do it right.</div>
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There were a lot of previous mistakes that they had to fix but they didn't complain, they just did what needed doing!</div>
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Here's the bunkhouse as we left it last fall. You can see the front end of our small trailer to the right, that is what we have used for the last several years. Not that I don't appreciate it but it would be a really nice to move into the bunkhouse.</div>
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We have a cement floor in the back room which will be a storage room for me but will serve as a bedroom for now. I need to clean that floor and paint it before we start working with more mud. It will make cleaning up a lot easier after the texture is finished. Plus I have to haul out all the scraps of sheetrock so we can work in there.</div>
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The plan is to hire him to finish the taping, sand and spray texture the ceilings and he says he can finish the same week he starts </div>
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We need to try to keep costs down after last years problems. Frankly we are out of budget to finish so we really need to pinch pennies.</div>
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The very first thing we'll finish is the bathroom...floor, walls and all the fixtures.</div>
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The husband is a licensed electrician so he will finish the electrical and hang lights.</div>
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The gas company came in last year after we left and buried the gas line so we will have heat! Just need to hook up to the furnace.</div>
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I'm really crossing my fingers and holding my breath as I write this... that the new guy will work out, if he does there is a ton of others projects for him in the future.</div>
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This year we work alone, things are far enough along that we don't need help (well maybe a little...we have someone in mind so we can get the job done this year). </div>
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It's going to be back to normal this year, like it was a couple of years ago.</div>
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<br />Faye http://www.blogger.com/profile/14684673026389717730noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200038693199477004.post-31664312074500221632013-10-06T21:27:00.002-05:002014-08-04T18:59:41.169-05:00Time to leave the bunkhouse<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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You can't see it well here but the view from the inside is just beautiful both to the east and west and even the small mountain to the south.</div>
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Taping is still not finished and will have to wait until next year. Could be we will have to finish it ourselves but I'm trying not to think of it and all the disappointments we had this year.</div>
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The husband is on the way here. He needs to pump out the water in the water heater in the crawlspace because we have to shut off everything and leave it without heat. It's the first time leaving it after getting the plumbing inside.</div>
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He got stuck behind the road closures from the blizzard in South Dakota and Wyoming.</div>
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A few neighbors stopped by today and said goodbye, they are so good about keeping an eye on the place for us.</div>
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I packed as much as I could today and started to fill up the truck with stuff.</div>
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I have mixed feelings, sad to leave but glad this is over, it has been too long and too stressful. </div>
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But I still can't understand why the carpenter doesn't get it!</div>
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But I wanted to end on a happy note instead of all of this negative weird stuff that happened with pretty pictures and views of the mountains.</div>
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Most likely I won't post again until next year, if you want to see what I do with the rest of my time I have another blog called <a href="http://wildrosevintage.blogspot.com/">Wild Rose Vintage</a>, you are welcome to stop by and visit anytime!</div>
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Also, in case you were wondering, the ceiling beam did NOT go up. The carpenter started it at midnight Friday and it looked iffy to me, plus he was exhausted. He needed 3 men to do it but only had 1 helper, said he'd be back at 8 am the next day and didn't show up till 1:00 pm.</div>
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I cancelled out after waiting for 5 hours plus it was time to start packing to leave, he pushed it off for so long that now it was too late. I did not like how he was going about it Friday night and had no trust that it was going to stay in place. It was hokey and when I explained to my husband how he was going about it, my husband said no way! </div>
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It cleared off last night, woke up to frost and 35 degrees and snow on the mountains this morning.</div>
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I just don't want them to sit on the porch for another year.</div>
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I have 1 coat of polyurethane on them and still need to do one more coat.</div>
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You can see the peak where the beam will be...maybe...or will it become firewood?</div>
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He could have been finished a week ago but a few things came up and having to deal with the twisted wood has not helped.</div>
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That was the plan but it didn't happen last winter or spring or summer...9 months to get it done.</div>
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THAT was supposed to be done 2 weeks ago.</div>
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I just want to come back next year and NOT have to count on anyone else.</div>
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I have yelled and screamed and threatened, the husband has yelled and threatened, about every few days we have to kick up a fuss...why? I have no idea. It works a for a couple of days and then they slack off again.</div>
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<br />Faye http://www.blogger.com/profile/14684673026389717730noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200038693199477004.post-59085898104411231782013-09-25T16:43:00.003-05:002013-11-18T12:38:04.016-06:00Sad little house... maybe it will be finished next summer<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My husband had to go back home to get back to work, I'm stuck here trying to get work done....nothing is happening...I mean <u><b>NOTHING!!!!</b></u></div>
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It's raining, dreary and <i><b>cold</b></i> in my old little trailer.</div>
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It's 46 degrees right now, it will be down to the low 30's the next 3 nights.</div>
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I was supposed to be able to move into the bunkhouse by now.</div>
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No, it does not have heat yet but with the good insulation and tight walls a couple of electric heaters would keep it toasty and warm easily.</div>
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But NO...I am sitting here in the cold trailer wondering what's going to get finished....or IF anything will get finished!</div>
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My husband asked the carpenter to come over and help the man doing the sheet rock for just a few hours so that he can get it done...he says he will but he doesn't do it.</div>
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Why me??? He's the contractor.</div>
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Am I near tears...YES!</div>
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<b>THAT </b>is what put all of this behind!</div>
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Instead we got a referral for a man that said yes, I can do it, but when we got here he decided he didn't want to do it so we had to waste a week looking for someone else.</div>
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Why can't they understand it from our side. We planned for 1 year to come out here for only 3 weeks. We set this all up 2 months before we got here with the promise that it would get done. It's 4 weeks now and I'm still sitting here in the cold trailer looking out the window at my sad little empty bunkhouse wondering WHY! </div>
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<br />Faye http://www.blogger.com/profile/14684673026389717730noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200038693199477004.post-45187551473620194512013-09-18T21:09:00.002-05:002013-10-06T21:06:13.201-05:00Braces and Rock<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It looks finished now!</div>
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I have my toilet!!!! A genuine flush toilet! No more outhouse!!!</div>
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The husband had to go home to work so I'm here roughing it but do I mind?...not at all!</div>
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I'm having too much fun! I was out moving a dirt pile with the Bobcat this evening.</div>
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I looked over my shoulder and there was the moon just coming up over the mountain.</div>
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The air is crisp and clean, we've had a lot of rain which is unusual for here. Almost an inch on Saturday plus it's rained almost every day but it's spotty so there is always some blue sky somewhere. The farmers are going to have a muddy time getting the sugar beets out.</div>
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Things are much better here at the ranch!</div>
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I always like to take a walk through the Irma Hotel. It still has that feel of the olden days. All the original wood paneled walls, the original huge old bar in the restaurant, the big stone fireplace in the bar.</div>
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This is at the end of the 'lake'. There is a bridge crossing the Shoshone River which flows out of Yellowstone. We were only 40 miles from the east entrance of Yellowstone Park when we turned around.</div>
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The heating guy was here all day doing his custom work in his portable shop.</div>
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It's starting to look like a real home.</div>
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(Click on the pictures and you almost feel like you are there!)</div>
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Another cool thing, everyone and I mean EVERYONE has an American flag outside their home whether it be out here in the country next to their mailbox or in town because of 9/11. I have never seen a more patriotic area in my life!</div>
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Attempting to work on the bunkhouse. We've been here for a while and haven't accomplished very much this time.</div>
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This is a view last night as the sun was getting low in the sky, looking north west at the Gallatin Range off in the distance, you can barely make them out in this picture.</div>
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The plumber showed up this morning after being absent for 4 days without a word and driving us (me especially) crazy. Our little camping trailer's hot water heater sprung a leak last Monday night so we have been without hot water for 6 days and having to make a 10 mile round trip to get a shower...major frustration.</div>
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Hopefully he will not leave until everything is finished and I will finally be able to take a shower in the bunkhouse bathroom that has no interior doors which doesn't matter since the sheet rock isn't even in place!</div>
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Sheet rock has been ordered and is supposed to be delivered this morning first thing...it's now almost 10 am and no sign of it. Our first man to do the work never showed up so we are expecting a new man to do the job. He worked on the building of the bunkhouse so he should be good.</div>
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Our insulation inside was half done when we got here.</div>
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I am staining the windows, that's all I can do since I can't prime and paint the walls that are not there.</div>
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We made an effort to set all of this up at least a month in advance, that didn't work.</div>
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We spent all year buying and preparing to do a lot on the inside this year and we even hauled out a Bobcat to move the dirt piles to fill in the floor in the barn, that's not going to happen this year.</div>
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All in all it's been a very frustrating 12 days so far and the majority of the work we planned to do this year will have to wait for one more year...next summer. </div>
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I wouldn't be so disappointed if I didn't feel so old and that time is slipping away so fast, it puts us back one whole year!!!</div>
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This is us back in Minnesota, 2 trucks and 2 trailers full. The one in the distance has the Bobcat and this close one is PACKED full! Back when we had high hopes of getting tons of work done!</div>
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It was a long and slow haul through 100 degree weather (stressful for me towing of these trailers 900 miles for the first time especially down a 10% grade mountain to get here and I didn't even burn the brakes!). The husband ran over something sharp in the road at night, missed it with the truck but the Bobcat trailer hit it and gashed a tire. </div>
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1:00 and the plumber has not returned yet (he's been gone 3 hours...he was here for 2 hours and that's it so far!). The guy I talked to on the phone Friday at the lumber yard forgot to tell the guys they had a delivery of sheet rock first thing Monday morning, the truck just arrived.</div>
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The 'rocker' is here and so is our carpenter so sheet rock will go up today!!!!</div>
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As my friend in the grocery store said when I went to buy food this morning...Welcome to Wyoming!!! She went through all of this when she and her husband built their home here years ago.</div>
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All men are now accounted for!</div>
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I am inside the big trailer sanding and finishing an old $10 buffet that will be the bathroom vanity.</div>
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Just for our own future reference...5:00 PM...we have water! No toilet or bathroom sink, no interior walls but we do have water!!!</div>
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I'm almost finished with my vanity, one more coat of Poly on the top and we can set the sink.</div>
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8:30...got my shower! How nice to finally have a REAL shower!</div>
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Warm water and lots of it! Could have been warmer but I didn't wait the entire time for the heater to fully warm it up. Nice that we have no neighbors since there are no shades over the windows and no interior walls or inside doors!!!</div>
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Things are looking up tonight!</div>
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It's almost completely finished on the outside.</div>
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Even so, I like this shot that really shows the views and the new snow on the mountain...way up there on top. And I love our old corral fences.</div>
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You can see way to the left (above) a wee bit of the trailer that we have been staying in while out there. It's nice but I will gladly welcome a REAL shower and no more outhouse to share with black widows.</div>
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The south side, plans are to fill the wall on both sides of that window with old fashioned hollyhocks and they love the climate in Wyoming.</div>
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Not the best pictures of the front (facing east). Still a mountain of dirt to deal with next summer.</div>
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We chose dark green shingles for the roof, we were going to go with pole barn tin but our carpenter and the lumber yard more or less said we won't like it. Okay, I'll listen to them. I'm happy with this so it all worked out.</div>
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Steve still needs to add brackets on each side of the porch posts but other than that his work is finished outside.</div>
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He'll be adding the insulation and sheet rock this winter so that next summer I can get out there and paint the inside. The bathroom will be the first room to be finished!</div>
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I'll need to dig through my older photos in order to keep posting now and then this winter. But next summer I will be back at it in full swing!</div>
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<br />Faye http://www.blogger.com/profile/14684673026389717730noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200038693199477004.post-30719617507340659552012-10-29T16:59:00.001-05:002012-10-30T08:31:44.087-05:00We have windows and doors!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
They are really coming along, I wish I was there!</div>
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He has the roof on both porches and the doors and windows are all in.</div>
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It sort of looks like it's sitting in a hole but it's the slope of the land. The slope has been deceiving for me. The barn is a little lower and the real house will be on this side (south) of the bunkhouse and up a little higher yet.</div>
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We lined up all the buildings in a row at the widest part of the property for the views. This way we can see both east and west from all 3 buildings, always. That's where the best views are. To the east are the Big Horn Mountains and to the west is Yellowstone. To the north are the Pryor Mountains in Montana but since the neighbors already have a forest of trees, they pretty much block everything except in winter.</div>
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On the other hand, their trees are nice because it brings in a little greenery and most of all... the birds.</div>
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Eventually we'll plant a few trees.</div>
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Still the remains of that dirt pile out front and it will have to stay that way a little longer.</div>
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The shingles are on the roof all ready to go.</div>
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(Pictures are a little dark, I think the sun was going down when he took the pictures)</div>
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He has the horizontal siding on the gable ends which I really like rather than running the vertical siding all the way up. I think this makes a nice change.</div>
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(Actually, they are already done but I'll save those pictures for next week.)</div>
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Sadly, I am no longer here but our carpenter is taking pictures with his cell phone as it progresses.</div>
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His wife has been emailing them once a week.</div>
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The roof is ready for shingles and both the front and back porch roof is up.</div>
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(Look at that blue sky! Isn't that beautiful!)</div>
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Still a lot of dirt to move but the husband can use all of it and then some for fill inside the barn.</div>
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It still needs the porch floors but that will come soon.</div>
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The windows and doors are now on and I'll see pictures in a day or so.</div>
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Next week they'll add the trim around the doors and windows and also the battens on the siding so that it resembles board and batten.</div>
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The septic is going in next week along with hooking up the well and burying water to the bunkhouse.</div>
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I'm loving this Douglas Fir, I plan to continue using it inside for the flooring and the trim.</div>
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<br />Faye http://www.blogger.com/profile/14684673026389717730noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200038693199477004.post-46134175408653716002012-10-06T16:26:00.000-05:002012-10-06T20:42:04.918-05:00Sunset and the bunkhouse...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
The evening before I left Wyoming...</div>
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Our fences to the East</div>
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The concrete is our little bridge over the canal.</div>
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This was as far as they were when I left. They had the front porch posts up.</div>
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The front porch roof is on and they are almost ready to put on the shingles. </div>
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(That's the husbands pole barn in the background.)</div>
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<br />Faye http://www.blogger.com/profile/14684673026389717730noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200038693199477004.post-61043464088107765192012-09-29T21:51:00.002-05:002012-10-06T15:51:40.159-05:00Fall is here and the porch roof<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
It is beginning to feel like fall here now. It took a while, I believe it's been a warmer than normal fall.</div>
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So I took a short ride and found some fall color</div>
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This is the beginning of the porch roof. He will cover the top of the rafters with roofing.</div>
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He has one side almost ready and then he still has the other side of the bunkhouse porch roof.</div>
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And tonight as the moon came up over the mountain.</div>
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