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| Bluewrenn |
Posted - Mar 02 2007 : 07:42:52 AM
Heather and Megan - I'm working on both hats at the moment and hope to have them finished and mailed by the beginning of the week. Just wanted to let you know that I have not forgotten you two. Things have just been crazy here - running off to pick up a travel trailer this morning, then hopefully off to finish building the two beehives this afternoon. And hope to squeeze client work and knitting in between all that! And plant some beans in my starter box.
Update on ranch: still waiting on the road guy to come work on the road - he was supposed to do the road last Friday and still hasn't shown up. But hopefully he will soon as we'll keep bugging him until he does. Then the well guy can come in and do the well.
Today we are going out to look at a 33 foot travel trailer and hopefully we'll be setting that up on the property this afternoon. If all goes well, I'll be working on finishing the painting in the barns and setting up the warehousing racks so we can start moving truckloads of our stuff down this weekend.
It's also Irish Fest in Dallas, and that's our anniversary celebration each year. The story is - we got married on Leap Day in 1996 and there was an ice storm that year, so no honeymoon. Instead we went to the irish fest and hubby bought me some nice jewelry. Now, every year for our anniversary, we go back to the Irish fest and he buys me a piece of jewelry. Nothing big, but something to commemorate the year, kind of like charms on a charm bracelet.
If I can find a place to board the goats I want to buy, then I'll be purchasing five Angora does this upcoming week also. I haven't wanted something so bad in a very long time... well, not counting the farm itself, but I really want this and I'm hoping that things will work out so I can get them. It just depends on whether or not I can find some place to board them while we wait for the road and water guys to finish up. Once that's done, this farm girl is moving home and shop to the farm!!! (Yes, I can pack and move an entire house in a few weeks when suitably motivated!)
And once I'm there full time, I can get a ton of stuff done. Esp. if the well is in, as the location of the well is dictating everything we want to do.
So that's my update!
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| Bluewrenn |
Posted - Mar 02 2007 : 8:55:44 PM
Well, we got the travel trailer - it's a 1978 Holiday Rambler and I'll tell you all about it in a bit, but before I do that I have to tell you about moving it.
Moving it was an ordeal -my husband and I nearly lost our lives today... The only thing to save us was my husband's heroic calm and ability to pull it out of a total fishtail. And the fact that we had not gotten on the bridge in front of us yet. Oh my gosh - I'll never pull a big RV like that again!!!! Someone was definitely watching us from above because it was seriously scary!
But this is the story -
While we were driving down the road, something underneath snapped and one of the back legs fell down and threw the whole trailer into a fishtail... When we tried to slow it down, we had problems because we were going DOWN a hill and the road was all curvy and such. Luckily everyone on the road saw what was happening and got OUT OF THE WAY!
After what seemed like forever, we finally got it stopped without hurting anyone and pulled off into a service station, tied up the offending leg, and checked everything out. Since we have no idea of what we were doing, we decided to take it to the nearest mechanic, if the thing was even driveable.
So we got directions to the nearest RV dealer and luckily he wasn't that far. So very carefully, we crawled up the road to the dealer. We had them take a good long look at it and had a bunch of stuff done to it. Finally a couple of hundred dollars later, they basically said that the trailers brakes were shot and that it was too heavy for our truck to move it safely without the brakes.
So, since it was such an old trailer, did we even want to bother fixing it? They couldn't give us an estimate for what it might take to fix it - which was probably a bad sign.
But a bigger truck could possibly pull it safely if we just wanted to move it to the property and weren't planning to use it for traveling. (Which we aren't. It's going to become a permanent building on our farm. Esp. after today! LOL!)
After much discussion as the cons and pros, we decided to go ahead and keep the trailer as it is without trying to fix the brakes. And we ended up arranging for them to deliver it to our property for us. (Get this - these dealer felt so bad about the couple hundred of bucks they charged us for what it took to find out the brakes were bad, that they are going to deliver it for the cost of gas and $20. We'll pay them more though - but how nice is that???)
Anyhow, I get to go meet them at the property tomorrow. Whew!!!! But we have a temp. living space on the farm!!!! Yippee! And later on, when the actual house gets built, it'll either become an office or guest housing.
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Anyhow, let me describe this trailer, because as troublesome as it was to move, we got it for a very good price. I think the brakes probably just dried up over the years that the trailer sat there without being used. (The dealer confirmed this for us.)
Anyhow, the trailer is a 1978 model but has only been used 4 times in its lifetime and only had a couple of owners, both of which never had the time to actually take it out. It's also been redecorated this past year.
It's about 30 feet long, with 28 feet as living space. It has a 3/4 sized fridge, not a half one, and has a small freezer. It has a four burner stove and a full oven which has never been used. A full bath with shower/tub. A huge bed in the back, at least one bed in front, and more storage space than I have EVER seen in an RV - and believe me, we had time to look through a ton of them while waiting the two hours it took to work on our RV. In fact, the dealers had never seen so much storage space. It was everywhere.
Anyhow, the thing came fully loaded - a tv, radio, VCR, dishes, towels, sheets, the entire kitchen's contents, etc... everything in it stayed with the RV. Even a full bolt of cloth that matches the curtains in case we need to make new ones.
And to top it all off, I made a new friend who is a farm girl herself, and I'm sending her the link to Mary Jane's Farm! So she may be coming to hang out with us! Yay, Yelonda!
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| windypines |
Posted - Mar 02 2007 : 11:02:55 AM
Good luck Erin and I hope the guys get moving. Just a thought on the well drilling. Does any one witch for water down there? We had 2 well drilled here. The first, just put it there. Well we still had crud for water. The second we had witched by 2 different guys. They picked the exact same spot, and did not know anyone else had done that till afterwards. We are total believers, especially with the price of wells. Have fun. |
| Lavender Cottage |
Posted - Mar 02 2007 : 07:50:01 AM
Wonderful reading your update! :) Love the line about "pack and move an entire house in a few weeks when suitably motivated." All the best-hope your road guy gets your road in! |
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