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Hey all . I am still alive and kicking.  Haven't really been up to much, just work work and more work. I do have alittle new though. I bought a washer and dryer for the house .  :O)  Now I can do laundry at my very own house. Right now its a exciting being able to do laundry but give me a few month and its going to be a different story lol  In the process of scrounging up some pipes to make me a cloths line outside too. No need to heat the house up even more this summer drying cloths inside than I have too.  Besides that I like the way cloths smell and feel after being dried outside :O)

I live on a gravel road but with the very few cars that go by in a day it wont hurt a thing.

 

  Yesterday was my daughters Birthday, she is 29 now.  Happy Birthday Heather.

 

  I have gotten the garden ready for planting, hope to have a good one this year. wont be a lot of stuff, corn, tomatoes, radishes, squash, some peas and carrots maybe,  don't want to get all crazy with it since I wont have a lot of time to keep on top of it. I don't like a weed patch garden.  I'm also planting a asparagus patch too. 

 

  Like I said, really haven't been up to much at all just working to pay for the washer and dryer and putting some in the coffee can :)  

My aunt  whom I love very very much lol  told me that she would teach me how to can everything too. They had chicken on sale the other day, I should of bought a bunch of it but didn't have extra money at the time.  Next time I will and I'll have her help me :O)  well people, I'm just rambling so I will talk with you all later, I will be getting the Internet hooked up at my place one of these days and then I can keep up with my blog a lot better. until then :O) be safe all. 

blog problems

Hi all, Don't know if this is going to work or not. Iv been having major malfunctions while trying to sign into my blog. And no its not me :O) at least I don't believe it is but could be lol 
  I still haven't been up too much, did some work on the house, cut firewood, Its been coder than a witches ----- one week then the next its like summer.  Iv been working off and on when I can, ready for the weather to break. 
  Working on getting Internet into the house, that will be nice to be able to blog whenever I want and too surf the net whenever. I do miss having that kind of information handy.
  Planning on either going to Nome Alaska this summer or just a trip too Colorado, need a break from everything. Need to do alittle traveling :O)  sure do miss that but it awful nice to have a home too :O)  Guess I want my cake and to eat it also. 
  Here a while back the prices of propane sky rocketed!!!!!  freaking ridiculous was up too 520 a gallon for a short while, its down too 2.79 a gallon as of the other day but that's still way high as far as I'm concerned. So glad that my house is so well insulated. I had 250 gallon put in on Nov 5th which brought the gauge up too 48 % looked at it yesterday and it was reading 28% . not too bad for using it for the hot water heater, heat back up furnace and the cook stove.  I'm happy with it. now to just wait until propane gets cheaper and then fill it up this summer when it is cheaper to get ready for next winter.
 
  Planning on putting in a garden this year, not a real big one just one that will help out some with the grocery bill and be manageable for just me.  Going to be planting a few tree also. Thinking about getting some bee boxes also. nothing like some honey on your toast in the morning :O)  As soon as the ground in workable I'm going to work up a plot of ground for a asparagus bed, love that stuff, could make a meal out of just asparagus :O)    Getting things together to build a chicken coop as well, got to have some chickens and also some peacocks.   Got to find some pipe so I can build me a cloths line also, be cheaper than using the dryer.
  well, got to go, between surfing and here I have run out my too hrs at the library using there Internet, she giving me the look :O)   hope all is well and have stayed warm this winter, talk to you all again soon I hope,  Be safe all :O)

PS  While I was out running around in Colo I took and wrote my blog address on some dollar bills (I know, its illegal) I wonder if any of my readers have come across any of them?  If you have, would you message me maybe?  thanks :O)    later all.

hi all :O)

 Well, what can I say. I haven't been up to anything constructive at all.  Sad to say but its the truth. Since I moved in to the house I have been lazy. Fat man lazy. Drive a stake beside me to See if I have moved lazy..   eat sleep poop lazy lol   sorry, kinda graphic there but its the truth. :O)  I have been working off and on at work but not on the house and I feel kinda guilty about it but I guess not enough to get off  my ass and get busy....  Iv been just enjoying lounging around, doing dishes, flushing a toilet, sleeping in a bed (even if its home made and redneck)  :O)  I have cut firewood on several occasions and have done odd ball things off and on with the house. I ought to be finishing up the mudding sanding and painting in the bedroom but I haven't.
  Like I said earlier, I have been LAZY LAZY.  It feels so good though lol  I have been thinking about getting busy though :O)  That's a start isn't it???

  I am very happy with the house though, its actually becoming my home very quickly. getting stuff put up on the walls, pics ect.  the wood stove works really good, matter of a fact it works alittle too good most of the time. The insulation that I had sprayed in is the best stuff I have ever seen. On days that it was in the - degrees I still had the window opened up alittle and the front door open and the glass window on the screen door cracked open a few inches as well.  People probably think that I'm stupid when they drive by and see the windows and door open lol  since I have moved in which was dec 22, I have burned maybe 1/2 a cord of wood. That's it. :O)  I had the propane tank partially filled when they fixed it. It was at 48 % and I checked it today and its at 32%  I run the hot water heater, cook stove and the propane wall furnace with it. cant remember exactly when I got it fixed but its been atleast 2 or 2.5 months ago. or longer.   Im really happy with the way it stays warm. I just hope that it works just as well this summer in keeping the heat out and the cold in :O) 
  I was also worried about rain noise, wind noise but I don't. the wind was blowing 30 mph constant with 45 mph gusts and I would just barely hear the gusts of wind. 
 Its been cold warm cold warm again and then mon and tues its going to be in the teens. Typical Kansas weather lol  Iv been working off and on this last week and next week.

  going to cut this short, sorry, will make up for it with my next post. I just really wanted to get on here and say hi to all my readers from all over the world :O)   Be safe all :O) 

update :O)

  Hey there everyone :O)  been awhile again but I am still here. I've been really busy of late, cold weather had motivated me immensely lol   I do know that I'm not done with the house at all but got it close enough to move into it on the 22 nd. :O)  gave myself a birthday and Christmas present this year that I wont be forgetting anytime soon.  Such a amazing feeling it is to be moving into a brand new house (unfinished)  that you have built yourself. :O)  Haven't been working much, too cold but I have been working pretty much none stop on the house. 

 

I moved into the RV on Feb 5th 2011 and then moved into clayts and Penny's fifth wheel last Dec and then on Dec 22nd 2014 I moved into my house :O)  I am so happy with what I have accomplished. Its a very good feeling to tell people that I built my house, I didn't buy it, didn't have someone else build it, it has my blood sweat and tears in it.... 

 

 

 

 

 

all the sheet rock is in place, mudded, sanded, and getting ready too primer and texture the ceiling.

 

start of the primer

 

ceiling is primered arms were sore and tired from all the sanding and mudding and sanding and even more sore after the primering.

 

painting the walls now, the ceiling is textured at this point as well. 

 

my wood stove. It doesn't take much of a fire too make it hot in the house. the house with the insulation that I had sprayed in is amazing...  to say the least..   for a month all I used to heat the house with was a 20000 btu vent less heater and I had the water heater going too and it only used 25 gallons of propane.  at 1.69 a gal comes out 42.25   I don't feel that is too outrageous.  considering there was some really cold days and night during the month.  allot of going in and out of the house and having some of the windows open allot of the time too.   now that I have the wood stove going I will be using even less propane.

 

seem odd to see a picture of a sink with dirty dishes in it :O)  but there is such a joy I feel when I get to use the sink With running water thank you very much :O)  No more heating water on the sink to do dishes :O) 

 

That's a picture of my cricket dog and two pictures of my dad on either side. 

 

and this is the kitchen, still need to put this end of the counter top on it and build the wall around the outside edges of the counters, and some flooring, and a kitchen light, and some other stuff too but who's keeping track anyway?  :O)

 

 

 

Okay, laugh now and get it out of your system :O) this is my bed. Yes the mattress is resting a a cut down piece of plywood and its resting on yes, sheet rock mud buckets..  6 of them to be exact. :O) but you know what? It works just fine until I go back to work and start making some more money. I don't mind my redneck bed and the cat doesn't seem to mind either :O)

 

here is one of the essentials also :O)  I bought a TV the other day :O)   need a entertainment center to put everything on and in but not yet.    

 

yuuummmmmm    enough said :O)

 

breakfast, listen closely and you can hear my arteries hardining and plugging up :O)  but damn its so good..  Every ones gotta die, might as well go happy ..

 

Fat cat hogging the couch and her front feet are on the tv control as well.     and That is carpet in front of the couch too :O)  a friend and his wife had some extra carpet hanging in their barn and they brought it over and gave it too me :O)  Thankyou very much mike and anita :O)  already have it down and its really nice :O) 

 

The kitchen again, the space on the left of the stove will have more shelf and counters tops that will go to the lazy susan and around to the frig.

 

our little snow storm we had last week.

 

the chimney for the wood stove. clayt came over and helped me that day put up the chimney and then we put counter tops on in the kitchen. Thanks for the help clayt :O)    thx

hi all :O)

 

Well all, all I can say is that I have been busy busy busy plus a nap or two here and there lol

As you all can see I have been busy with the house, was working allot too but with the cold weather things have really slowed down. Works out in my favor for being able to have lots of time to work on the house but not so good for the checking account.  Currently I am hanging the last of the sheet rock in the bedroom and large closet. I should be done tonight or fri at the latest.

I'm in at my sisters today making home made rolls and deviled eggs for tomorrow. I should soon have my own kitchen going :O)  going fri or sat to pick up the cabinets and order the counter tops, paying alittle extra to have the store cut and put the ends on, I have never cut or worked on counter tops so I chickened out lol  they will have 2 45degree corners that will need to be cut and I know that it is most likely beyond me and my skill saw :O)  So I'm getting pretty excited about all that is happening with the house. 

  about a week ago the propane guys showed up and we upgraded the tanks valves and lines, wasn't too bad. No leaks so I guess I did good. Was worried about that. They checked all the fittings and appliances then turned the gas on and lite the hot water heater, cook stove, and the vent less 20,000 btu heater. That little heater heats the place just nicely.  700 sq ft and on the mornings that its 10 degrees outside its 65 inside and that's on the lowest setting and it comes on for a short while then goes off for a long time. The insulation is working great. The only problem I have had is that the house is too tight. I was having a prob with humidity until I cracked a window open, just barely mind you. Didn't think it would be enough but it was. went from 68% too 32% in a matter of a few hours.

So now I have a flush able toilet, and shower that I can use with hot water :O)  yeeehaaaa  .  its the simple things in life now that make me smile big.  So now I can take showers at my own place now. So Thank you so very much too my family that put up with me for so long taking showers at their places.  Thank you so very very much you all.  Never will you guys know just how much that has meant too me.  Thank you again.

 

Now I am in the process of still mudding taping and sanding the sheet rock joints. uuuuggggg.  but will be worth it when its finally done. Trying hard to be giving myself a present for x-mas.  A house too live in :O)    plus a bigger tv...  

  maybe some carpet too but rugs will work for now.

I need some suggestions on paint colors, I am not a interior decorator.  I know a person that is great at that stuff but....   all I know is that I want it to be relaxing colors, nothing harsh or dark. 

 

 

 

 

that's the begging of the ceiling sheet rock job. the dark thing in the ceiling is the chimney piece that goes to the bigger chimney on the outside for the wood stove.  I have to still put the other pipe in but will do that as soon as its sanded and painted.

 

 

That red thingy is the Sheet rock jack, its worth its weight in gold if you ask me lol  ex specially if your doing it alone..

 

My new vanity and vanity top. doesn't match anything else in the bathroom but I like it :O)

 

the ceiling in the living room.

 

ooops got two of the same pic

 

this is the before sheet rock

 

 

the after sheet rock, it was a major pain in the ass to be blunt.  and it was my own fault too.  it would have help if the room was square lol  as you can see by the towel that I have been using the shower.

 

this is in the bedroom today, the one piece is attached but I had to leave and make rolls so when I get home I will attach it and put some more up yet tonight. once these two room are done I am DONE with hanging the sheet rock :O) 

 

I really haven't been doing much else, just work and work.   Got to go for now, rolls need pulled out of the oven and get back home to the sheet rock :O)  I hope everyone is doing great and that you all have a wonderful thanksgiving and be safe :O)

2 years

 

it was 2 years ago that I lost the company of my little friend, I still miss her terribly bad. Cant seem to get myself in the frame of mind to have another friend.  Not yet anyway.  

Miss you and love you Cricketdog :O) 

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)