This old house. Is kicking my A$$

Waaaaayyyyy happy for you, brother Randy, sounds like a sushi celebration might be in order! Wooooooo hoooooo!

 

So I managed to remember to take pictures!! Hunter and I took a load of stuff over to the house today and I brought the camera!

Im gona load them into a album on photo bucket and will share a link if anyone wants to look!

 

Heres a link to a slide show of about 50 pictures. http://s1101.photobucket.com/user/HHHKnives/slideshow/House and shop If it asks for a password. Type in houseandshop

Just to make this fun and because I can.. Lets play a game. Wheres HUNTER is the name of it.
As your looking at the images keep a eye out for my son Hunter. If you see him Remember the picture number.. Then. PM me Wheres Hunter in the title.

The first 3 people who message me with there shipping address and the picture number and shirt size will receive a T Shirt!!!

 

Beautiful property Randy!

 

Thanks Jason, I cant begin to tell you how blessed I feel.. Although Its been a HUGE undertaking and at times I have even felt like Why did I buy this stupid old house. (maybe not in them exact words!! lol ) Yet when I walk out back last week and pick that first ripe pear and take a bite/ Then turn around to see the the beautiful trees and everything else. I quickly realize this is the life and how awesome this place is and is going to be! Next year I will actually have some time to work on the yard. and to whoop the apple trees and even this beautiful pear tree into shape.

 

and room to plant more! plus a garden!

I would love to have a large property in the country. Room enough for a couple horses.

 

Well, Its finally happening. THE MOVE! Im so excited and tired and sore all at the same time. lol Over the last few weeks. Lisa (God Bless her) has been packing and going through everything in this house. Not a small task.. As she did this. I moved many loads of boxes to the new house! So alot of the small stuff has already made the move and is in boxes waiting for us!! Tomorrow, the truck will be loaded and ALL the large stuff is moving. So. This weekend we will be living at the house!!!!!!!! 10 months in the making!!!

I know its not over yet. As I am sure after we move in. Ill find a number of small things that will need attention. Par for the course.

This week has been 100% dedicated to working on the new shop. We made HUGE progress. First, we had to stud out all the walls to accept insulation and drywall. Then managed to add gutters to the shop which I hope will all but solve the water issue I had. I don't know If I posted about this here, But when it rained the other day. The floor of the shop started to get wet. and I watched this water/moisture creep along the concrete slab. After researching a bit. I found a few products designed to seal the concrete in a manner to all but stop water from coming through from underneath.. In the process I also found that adding gutters to direct the majority of the rain water away from the slab would also aid in stopping the wet floor issue. So I did both! applied this super sealer that's suppose to "fix" the floor and seal it enough for me to finish it off with a surface coat of epoxy. and applied gutters to the whole building with extended downspouts to get that water far away from the slab! Gota have a dry floor/shop..

So at the end of today. All that's left B4 I can move into the shop, is drywall!!!! I figure a few days at most and the board will be hung and finished as much as I plan to finish it!!

God is GOOD!!! ALL the time!
Randy

 

Big weekend ahead of you.
Hope it goes smoothly for you!

 

Its official. We have made the 1st part of the move successful. We are now at the NEW HOUSE!!!!!

Friday we made the move. a solid 14 hours of work!! +

Sat we rested! lol by necessity not because we wanted to. Lisa and I both were totally HIT from the initial move and just needed a day to recoup.

Next week will be finishing the shop and moving it all here!

Thanks and God Bless
Randy

 

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Awesome Randy!

 

Thanks guys!

 

Wood fireplace!?
Got a spare room?

I love fireplaces

 

Fido does not seem nearly as stressed about the move as you have been.

 

Damn, dude...... That fire place sure lookes cozy comfy!!!

 

Making some progress in the shop. Happy to report. That after almost 2 days of straight rain. The shop floor is dry!!

Electrical, Check,
Insulation, Check
Lighting, Check..
Dry floor, Check. Dry wall, Check!
Ventilation, Check, Check.
Heater, NEXT
Move in all the tools!!!

 

Just about ready to move the toys in, nice!

 

Yes sir! A few more full days of work and I can start working on that!!

 

This is going to be good!

 

And project, "move it all" has started!! If everything goes to plan the roar of the forge and Sparks will be flyin by this time next week or B4!!

The new GRINDER is alive! This is one I picked up about a year back thats been sitting in Jr's Garage waiting for me!! Its a 14", 3hp Variable speed BEAST! Running at approx 7800 sfpm.

Butch and I were talking about the possibility of converting this into a BIG wheel grinder. swapping it out for a 36" wheel.