Homestead journey

[backlash]

If I had to pick one machine for a homestead it would be a bobcat.
There are so many attachments for them is amazing.
You can get a cement mixer for one.

 

[DrJenner]

@Pearl it has been, and now raining off/on, windy today. Weather is so schizophrenic
@backlash for sure, this Bobcat is awesome. ours is old (1970s I think, maybe 1980s), but still works and we don't want to replace it.

 

[DrJenner]

Now that we have permits, the culverts are going in. Foundation for Quonset hut is done and we are ready to put up the walls.
Bobcat was down for a week so it set us back a bit.
Culverts are overkill but it’s what the county wanted.

 

[Pearl]

Now that we have permits, the culverts are going in. Foundation for Quonset hut is done and we are ready to put up the walls.
Bobcat was down for a week so it set us back a bit.
Culverts are overkill but it’s what the county wanted.

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Yay on the permits!!

 

[DrJenner]

Evening everyone and thanks for the kind messages of concern.
Everything has been ok (health wise), we moved off the property in January when there was a huge freeze and the windows in the RV were icing over. I woke up one morning and it was 40 degrees in the RV despite the heater running full blast all night.

We moved into a townhouse in town, just a few minutes from the hospital I work at. Hubs goes out to the property every day and I try to garden as much as I can. Kids are moved back to the area, so a lot has been going on there as they are both in these transitions in life. At the beginning of the year, one of my colleages wound up having emergency cardiac bypass surgery and another one had a baby so we were down 2 people. Needless to say, I ended up working a ton. That is all straightening out now, and am hoping to get re-caught up again soon.

As far as the property goes, permits have been held up for the cabin (go figure). We've got another shed built and the cover for the saw mill. We've been widening the road and the culverts are in. Our son has moved out to the property for the summer and that has been really helpful.

 

[Amish Heart]

Good to see you again

 

[DrJenner]

Good to see you again

Thanks Amish. Hope all is well with you and you are getting some well deserved peace.

 

[Peanut]

Yes! Very glad to hear from you @DrJenner ! Sounds like you've had more chores than hands. Keep us posted!

 

[Spikedriver]

Glad you're back, Doc!

 

[Bacpacker]

Good to hear from you DrJ

 

[bkt]

It's great to hear from you!

 

[LadyLocust]

Hello there my friend. I was up your direction for a few quick hours last weekend . Thought of you while in those beautiful trees

 

[Pearl]

So glad to see you!! You had us worried!! Thank you for the update, glad y'all are ok!! Hopefully summer and the permit people treat you well!! Thank you for being such a dedicated doctor!!

 

[Alaskajohn]

Glad you are still here with us! Keep plugging away at your plan!

 

[Tommyice]

Welcome back Doc! Sorry about the cold setback but very good to hear from you and that the homestead is progressing.

 

[Tirediron]

Glad that you are back, hope that your permits get sorted, bureaucrats are enemy combatants and should be treated as such,

 

[DrJenner]

Glad that you are back, hope that your permits get sorted, bureaucrats are enemy combatants and should be treated as such,

oh man I could tell you some stories. Hubs is fit to be tied. If it's not one thing its another. Shoulda bought property in Idaho. Haha

 

[DrJenner]

Hello there my friend. I was up your direction for a few quick hours last weekend . Thought of you while in those beautiful trees

oh wow! Good weekend to come up, it was warm. I have a new phone number, I'll send it to you.

 

[DrJenner]

Thanks everyone, didn't mean to cause worry -- I appreciate you all checking on me.

 

[Amish Heart]

Glad you're doing well. Our daughter is outside of Seattle, and tells me what a pain everything is in the PNW.

 

[DrJenner]

Glad you're doing well. Our daughter is outside of Seattle, and tells me what a pain everything is in the PNW.

we just got back from that area, wasn't a bad drive since we left at 6:30 am. Haha
Everything is overcrowded and expensive, bought coffee and breakfast at Starbucks on the way out and spent $27 for 2 coffees and 2 breakfast sandwiches. Ridiculous.

 

[Amish Heart]

Yep. I hear about it. She's in Marysville, outside of Seattle. She's been to our place twice recently, and loves it, doesn't want to go home. Hoping to get her husband out for a visit, soon, we'll see. Sounds like even grocery shopping there is an experience. She says alot of Canadians come and shop there because it's not too far and it's cheaper, but she still pays way too much for meat.

 

[DrJenner]

Yep. I hear about it. She's in Marysville, outside of Seattle. She's been to our place twice recently, and loves it, doesn't want to go home. Hoping to get her husband out for a visit, soon, we'll see. Sounds like even grocery shopping there is an experience. She says alot of Canadians come and shop there because it's not too far and it's cheaper, but she still pays way too much for meat.

Yeah my step son and his wife live in Woodinville. The cost of everything is crazy. thankfully the east side of the state is a little better.

 

[Peanut]

Yeah my step son and his wife live in Woodinville. The cost of everything is crazy. thankfully the east side of the state is a little better.

Haven't heard that name in ages. I used to eat at a bbq restaurant in Woodinvillle. I think my hotel was one exit up. Behind the hotel is where they launched the hot air balloon rides over seattle. I was there working on catscans. Think i ate at every place in woodinville at least once, only a few. The bbq was the best place to eat by far, ate there several times.

 

[EastenerWesterner]

Yeah my step son and his wife live in Woodinville. The cost of everything is crazy. thankfully the east side of the state is a little better.

Hey DrJ. Missed you the past couple years. You had some nice plans you shared. Too bad a winter in a camper didn’t work.
I am developing a smaller place with only a state in between us in a more favorable climate for a homesteading thing.
Busy DVM wife has gotten into freeze drying and canning. She will have a nice room in the workshop for that and her cast iron hobby when I am finished

 

[DrJenner]

Hey DrJ. Missed you the past couple years. You had some nice plans you shared. Too bad a winter in a camper didn’t work.
I am developing a smaller place with only a state in between us in a more favorable climate for a homesteading thing.
Busy DVM wife has gotten into freeze drying and canning. She will have a nice room in the workshop for that and her cast iron hobby when I am finished

Thanks EW - yeah I definitely miss the milder winters in the south. Hope your plans are going well there!

 

[Pearl]

Thanks EW - yeah I definitely miss the milder winters in the south. Hope your plans are going well there!

Hello there!! Been missing you!!

 

[Bacpacker]

Welcome back Dr J