The happening at the ranch...

Been kinda busy out in the sticks, I've had to work every other day the past two weeks, so Its been non-stop activity for the me. We've completed the roof on the saloon and the porch. We've also hooked up the wood stove, and finished the floor. In the house we've completed the wiring for our flat panel LCD TV and DVD player (been 18 months since we've used our TV, and unless we run a generator, we've watched family movies using a 7" portable DVD player) if I've calculated this right, with our solar panels we should be able to watch TV all day if we wanted to, or at night we should have at least three hrs of TV time without running the batteries down too much. By this time tomorrow we'll know for sure.
Also on the home front, on Monday the temp dipped down to the magical number of 19, causing us to not only freeze water in the traps of our gray water line, but also bust the cold water line to our kitchen and extra bathroom. Hopefully the hot water side will be ok the rest of the winter, and not give us any troubles.
Since it is way late, and the day will start at sun up, I better go and get what little sleep I can.

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Ya know it's cold...

When you wake up seeing your breath, inside the house! Woke up to 34 degrees inside this morning... Which is warmer than the 19, it is outside! Just how did a Southern Californian end up in a frozen arctic?

So with that I must go check on the fire again.
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Winter already...

We've had some real cold days lately, colder than normal, and its been hanging around awile... And today is no exception. In fact its snowing this morning! Thankfully we have the new stove in the saloon installed so work can continue inside at least. Got to love living in the high desert.

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The porch...

I'm calling this "the porch" because this is massive...

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Happy Thanksgiving!

In a total food haze... But had a great time stuffing our face.

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Happy Thanksgiving!

I hope everyone is planning on having a great Thanksgiving and is keeping warm this cold eve. It is currently (midnight) 24 degrees here on the ranch, and it's expecting to drop into the teens by sun up! Needless to say the stove is cherry red and keeping us warm tonight.

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In the weather...

Repost...

It shows a slight chance of rain in the forecast, and we had over 400 square feet of bare sheeting! So although I was feeling under the weather we had to get the roof done... So with that chore out of the way, we started on the front porch...

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