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More demo pics

July 28th, 2008 | 1 Comment

Well, the demolition is going pretty well in the front room of our homestead house. That room is being gutted first because there was a leak upstairs at one time (around the 2nd floor front door), and it really did a number on the front wall. As I mentioned before, it was pretty disgusting in [...]

Even deer have an emergency alert system

July 24th, 2008 | No Comments

Yes, it’s true, as Dave and a co-worker found out on Monday. They were on break, watching other deer with binoculars, when this one appeared and decided to stare them down. Dave got out the camera and recorded what ended up being a broadcast of the deer emergency alert system. Turns out that when a [...]

And so it begins…

July 19th, 2008 | 3 Comments

Yes, we’ve finally started demolition work on the house! This first picture was from Thursday, when Dave got rid of some of the rotten front wall to see what was going on back there. I was actually surprised to see that there wasn’t any kind of mold. That wall had some decent water damage because [...]

Dumper in the Dumpster

July 13th, 2008 | 3 Comments

Our biggest project at the homestead this weekend was installing a new toilet. The old one was permanently dirty, didn’t flush very well, and had a large piece missing from the tank lid (probably about 1/4 of the lid). The worst part was the missing piece of tank lid, as it allowed the water in [...]

We already need another one

July 4th, 2008 | 4 Comments

Keep in mind, this is still just trash left behind by the previous owners. We haven’t even started any demolition work yet!

Taking a dumpster

July 1st, 2008 | 2 Comments

That title should bring up some interesting results in the search stats. As promised, here’s more info about the clean-up. Earlier this year, we’d found a company who would bring a Dumpster up to the homestead for a considerable amount less than other companies were quoting us. We finally got the first one (probably many [...]