Snake Farm
Ol school snake charmer!
I posted a thread about three months ago about building my daughters house and several of you expressed interest in a thread about it and Tripper said put it here in the build section......So...here we go with my latest build! Yes it's a bit off topic but it's occupying all my time at the moment so it's all I have to offer.
I've been a little slow in getting this thread started but frankly I'm off to a slow start on the house. We have had the wettest spring/summer here that I can remember, including a forty day period earlier this spring in which it rained a total of thirty days! So needless to say I'm way behind at this point....hope I can make it up somewhere.
I know everyone likes pictures so for the next few days I'm going to post up a bunch of pics with short captions until I get caught up to where I am currently. Then I'll try to keep things updated weekly.
First a little background. My son-in-law is a mechanical engineer working in natural gas compression and transmission and my daughter ran a successful photography business until the spring of 2008. That's when they developed a five year plan for themselves and my daughter shut her studio down and they hit the road in this rig....
.....this would be their home for the next four to five years as my son-in-law worked various compressor station building/rebuilding projects up and down the eastern third of the US. Then they would settle down, build a home and start a family.
Then in the spring of 2009 to mine and Mrs. Snake Farm's delight they purchased about four acres that joins our property here on Paradise Road. Knowing they would be settling down close by made the rest of their time away more bearable for us.
So, after being back home for a few months living in their one bedroom apartment above the photography studio, and the birth of our Grandson last September, in January of this year we started to clear ground for their new home.
View of new home site from the shadow of their current home......
Must have built 50 of these.......
Some days the weather cooperated........
And some days it didn't......
Cut enough firewood to heat my shop for the next 3 or 4 years.......
Also cut 60-70 saw logs and had my uncle saw them into lumber.......
Cut approximately 100 trees of various sizes including this big Poplar......
To be continued.....
I've been a little slow in getting this thread started but frankly I'm off to a slow start on the house. We have had the wettest spring/summer here that I can remember, including a forty day period earlier this spring in which it rained a total of thirty days! So needless to say I'm way behind at this point....hope I can make it up somewhere.
I know everyone likes pictures so for the next few days I'm going to post up a bunch of pics with short captions until I get caught up to where I am currently. Then I'll try to keep things updated weekly.
First a little background. My son-in-law is a mechanical engineer working in natural gas compression and transmission and my daughter ran a successful photography business until the spring of 2008. That's when they developed a five year plan for themselves and my daughter shut her studio down and they hit the road in this rig....
.....this would be their home for the next four to five years as my son-in-law worked various compressor station building/rebuilding projects up and down the eastern third of the US. Then they would settle down, build a home and start a family.
Then in the spring of 2009 to mine and Mrs. Snake Farm's delight they purchased about four acres that joins our property here on Paradise Road. Knowing they would be settling down close by made the rest of their time away more bearable for us.
So, after being back home for a few months living in their one bedroom apartment above the photography studio, and the birth of our Grandson last September, in January of this year we started to clear ground for their new home.
View of new home site from the shadow of their current home......
Must have built 50 of these.......
Some days the weather cooperated........
And some days it didn't......
Cut enough firewood to heat my shop for the next 3 or 4 years.......
Also cut 60-70 saw logs and had my uncle saw them into lumber.......
Cut approximately 100 trees of various sizes including this big Poplar......
To be continued.....
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