update :O) finally.

 

No words needed lol

 

 

or here either, except that it would be nice if it was warm too :O(

 

getting ready for the foam to be sprayed!!

 

looks  funny but it really works great..

 

and then the sheet rock going on the rest of the walls.

 

here I have been mudding and taping the walls.  Theres allot of screws there :O(  hence, allot of mudding and sanding :O(

 

The foam really is some great stuff, it sound proofs it and makes it really easy to heat too. I have been using a little buddy heater to keep the chill off in the house,  left it on one nite to dry the mud and it was 37 degrees in the morning but in the house it was 76 degrees!!!   I'm really happy with it.  The guy that owns the company said I would b e happy with it in the winter but the summer is when I will be truly impressed with its insulating ability's. said that it will keep cooler than a regularly insulated house by a long ways and be cheaper too.  I hope so. 

  So this is what I have been doing mostly, putting up sheet rock which all of the walls are done now, going to town one of these near days and buying the last of the sheet rock. Them last pieces will be for the ceiling.    

 

I have also fixed all the gas lines in the house and they are ready for the propane to be hooked up. Just have to get the propane tank updated :O(    Oh yea, I have to put in the stove pipe and hot water heater vent pipe in still too but that's not going to take much.  Things are coming along pretty good, just time consuming.  But its getting soooo close :O)  

 

 

oh my :O) its been a while.

 Well to begin with, no I'm not dead :O)  

 

I have been busy though, between work and the shouse I don't have a lot of time anymore :O)  But things are coming together with the house. The spray in insulation guy will be here this week to spray the roof ceiling and the three wall on the inside :O)  yay!!!!!!!!!!!   Once that is done I could by all rights "move" into it.  Not going to though, going to wait so I can get the ceiling put in and get all the walls sheet rocked as well. Debating rather to wait until I get done with the mudding of the joints and screw dimples and painted or just say piss on it and move in and work around things as I go :O)  Really getting excited about getting moved in.

 

Nothing has really changed for me, still doing the same schedule, work, work and oh yea, :O) more work.   Been really busy at work, everyone is trying to get all their concrete work done before bad weather sets in so that makes us busy trying to keep their rock bins and sand full. Makes for a good paycheck but short days to get things done on the shouse.

 

this is the first load of sheet rock, so far I have put up  28 sheets.

 

 

The very first (actually second ) sheet that I cut and hung.  Yes, I messed up on the first one, put a perfectly good plug inn hole right almost where it needed to be lol  when I sat it up there and realized what I had done (cut on the wrong side of the line) I thought to myself that this is not the way to start out sheet rocking....

 

standing in the bedroom taking a pic into the bathroom.

 

standing in the wood stove area.

 

 

 

standing at the front door, kitchen will be too the right, and the living room is too the left.  doorway on the left is too the bath room and the doorway straight in front goes into the bedroom.

 

pantry and closet plus storage.

 

oops,  just a repeat pic.

 

I found these imprints in the  osb board I was using for a work table. guess someone forgot to pick up some bolts after they had works on the press..  thought it was neat.

 

In other unrelated things, the other day I was driving to the quarry and I saw hundreds, and I mean hundreds with no exaggerations of hawks, they were on both sides of the road in a cut bean field.

They were all facing south for the most part. I had never in my life saw that many hawks gathered together in one spot ever. Tried taking some pics with my phone but they didn't come out very good. 

Still alive :O)

Hey there all :O)  truly sorry that its been so long since I have been on here updating the blog.  Its been a busy time, it finally stopped raining awhile back and I have been really busy hauling materials for the ready mix.  Trying to make up for the really really short pay checks during the rainy time.  Its been nice to be busy and making some good money so I could buy more stuff for the house. 

 The kidney stone is still with me :O(  flairs up once in a while. Just something that I have to deal with when it happens.  Other than that I have been really good, no colds or anything but the usual aches and pains.

 

  I got all of the stud walls up, all the electrical done but put the porch lights up but I have to repair them first and then sand blast them so I can repaint them. They are some antique lights that I took off a old house. They really are cool looking, will have to take a pic of them. A before and after picture.  I insulated the west wall today, and I bought most of the gas line stuff I need the other day but still need to install. after that, I will be able to call the spray in insulation guys and have them insulate the interior of the house and the interior roof of the shop.   very costly but worth it I believe.  Then I can put the rest of the ceiling boards in place and get busy with the sheet rock. 

  its been hot here lately, summer came back that's for sure.  Looking forward to fall weather, trying hard to be moved into the house before winter really sets in. I know that it  wont be done by any means but it will be enough to live in it :O)  will finish as I go.  Still need to put the stove pipe for the wood stove in also. oh yea, the dang end gable vents too.  You see, there is still allot to do lol 

  The house is really starting to take shape and is getting closer and closer to the move in date :O)  getting excited about it.  Still a ways off but I can see light at the end of the tunnel :O)

 

 

 

 

The wall dividing the house from the shop. all closed in and waiting for some siding.

 

just the insulated wall.

a shot from the corner of the house showing the west wall and bathroom.

more insulation shots. theres my air conditioning unit in the lower left corner of the pic.  :O)

the coach was given to me by a friend, they were going to toss it out so I took it. the bedroom is behind the couch.   the kitchen will be where the couch is actually sitting.  Will be a galley type kitchen. 

 As you can see in the pictures, there are allot of plug ins lol  a lot of them...  Wont have to worry about not having any place to plug something in that's for sure :O) 

 

Again, sorry that I haven't been posting as much, just been busy with work and the house. I will soon have a Internet connection of my own in my own house :O)  I will be able to keep you all updated a lot easier.  Got to go all, be safe and be patient waiting for my updates. :O) 

 

Oh yea, got some deer hanging out at my place, a couple of squirrels and even one black squirrel.  The ground hog is still living under the van trailer, it comes out just about every morning to get a drink of water out of the stone watering trough my grand father made years and years ago. I honestly don't know just how old it is but I'm 47 and its been in the family a lot longer than that.  I think they are cool so I make them for others as well.   anyway, better go for now.  :O)  like I said, be safe all :O) 

Thoughts

You know when I started this blog, I really didn't have a clue about what I was going to be putting on here or what I was going to say :O)  I just wanted to show people the many different things that I found in my travels and adventures.  I have put some really boring things on, some interesting stuff (too me anyway)  and have mused about things also.  Right or wrong its been me all along. 
  I was looking back on it and I realized that for the most part, I gloryized it  (not sure if that's the right word or not but it will work)  by that I mean that I was just writing about the good stuff for the most part. I wasn't  writing about the mess ups or the emotions that I went threw at times.  The scared what the hell am I doing, or the depressed times of missing my family and the few friends that I have.  Being so excited and angsous when I knew that Peggy and gary would be there. :O)   Even the times that I would be out in the boonies for weeks at end and go to town to get groceries and do laundry, the everyday mundane things that people put off or dread I found to be moments of joy and happiness.  Not because of the action of doing them lol  no way, but the fact that I would be in town and see people. To talk to others about "the weather"  The lack of rain.  Just to be socal again. 
   I met some really odd people, some good people, some not so good people but for the most part, decent people.  I learned  how to be by myself and to enjoy it. Not so much some of the other times,  Its one thing to talk about going to the outer edges of civilization, to be one with nature, or to live frugally.  They all have their ups and downs, Its the learning how to be that way is the trick. 
  I miss being "out there"  I miss the traveling, seeing the sun rise over the mountains or on new horizons. The sun sets that make me wonder what's over there?  or just the simple act of sitting in the lawn chair watching the wind in the trees.  Believe it or not, the wind in the trees blowing the branches, making the trees sway back and forth is a very relaxing deal for me.  or watching a lizard sun itself lazily until a bug comes into striking range, and in a instant it flashes into action with movements so fast that you cant see what's really happing. Then just as fast as it happened its back to being rock still and sunning itself again as if nothing had happened. :O) 
  I really don't know where I am going with this :O)  just rambling I guess, some will critisize my "airing my laundry for all to see"  but who really cares?  does it matter?  not really. 
  A while back I started a diary, I started it out of nesessity honestly, for a record of where and when I was doing anything anywhere anytime.  Things got straightened out but I have continued writing in my diary, its on day 556 now.  Its got everything in there from what I did on each day to what I had for breakfast lunch and dinner lol to wanting to strangle the cat for shit that it does.  I have written about friends, family, dreams, fears, happiness, losses, gains, pain, you name it, if it happens in life to me, its in there.  If you want to see into ones life, start a diary and be open and honest about it. Be honest to yourself when you write, tell it like you see it. Once in a while go back and reread it and see what you can find out about yourself. Sometimes you might not like what you see about yourself but maybe, just maybe you will be able to make changes in yourself for the better :O)   Other times, its a lost cause to change something's.  better or worse, sometimes its just who you are no matter how hard you try to change something about yourself that you don't like. That's when you have to just accept that part of you and live with it.
  As you can see from my blog and this, that these last few years have been a time of learning, forgiving, accepting, and moving on. Its a journey of finding out just who I am and where I want to be.  Its not that I have been clueless all these years, its just that I have tried to be what I believed others wanted me to be.  To do the right thing, to do the acceptable thing, to follow the norm I guess.
  I have had people tell me that I was a fool to spend a lot of my money going gold prospecting for the 2 summers I went, laugh at my idea and the building of my house out of a tin building. I also had people tell me that they wished they could do the same thing.  so who's right and who's wrong?
   I have come to the conclusion that it really doesn't matter what anyone thinks of another's ideas, its what YOU think of YOUR ideas.  right or wrong, its all yours.....

  well, I believe that I have said enough lol  yes, you have been following a lunatics blog all this time lol   Just kidding, just ask me and I will garantee you that I am not a lunatic :O)     Be safe all :O)



         Great, spell checks not working.  oh well, I cant spell for shit.  You probably already know this :O)
 

Random pictures of colorado.

 

Just alittle stream on one of the many back road trips in Colorado

 

Honestly, I don't remember where I took this picture, in Kansas though.

 

The Arkansas river North of Buena Vista on the R.R. tunnel road that goes by Elephant rock also.

 

This is just one small part of the Cache Creek Flume that the gold miners built back in the 1800's to divert water around the side of the mountain.  Was quite the hike, if you go to the Granite Cemetery and look to the south you can see.

 

 

ouch

A person should really pay attention to the sewer drain pipes sticking up out of the concrete floor..  

 

 

things I have been up too.

 

The wall dividing the kitchen from the bedroom. not quite finished yet :O)

 

The begging of getting ready to make a hole in a perfectly good wall  lol

 

give a red neck a saw saw and a skill saw and he can do anything :O)  Nephew helping me for the day. or was it me helping my nephew for the day?  :O)

 

Tadaa!!!   a hole!

 

The bedroom window and kitchen window installed.

 

looking good :O)

 

One day while I was working on the house I happened to notice something moving in the yard.  upon closer inspection this big guy is what I found...

 

 

water bottle is there for a size reference.  was pretty big.  When I first saw him he was headed to the southwest. I walked around him 4 times making him turn circles to keep me in sight. I stopped with him facing northeast, the way he had come from and be danged if he didn't turn back around and head back south West!!  He new where he was going too I guess lol