Clean-up in the mid-valley
Clean-up in the front yard (west side of house)
Yanking out planter boxes
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Clean-up in the mid-valley Clean-up in the front yard (west side of house) Yanking out planter boxes Video below of plans for the main barn and some work done to date. 2010_01_10_Barn_Work from Ed Soehnel on Vimeo.
Jan
10
2010
2009_12_Travel_CaliforniaPosted by ed in GPS-Maps, Travel, Uncategorized, tags: Arches National Park, California, Grand Canyon, Monument Valley, Snow, TravelOur road trip over Christmas included a 1 day 17 hour drive to California to the parents house - 4 days there - and a 3 day return trip through the Grand Canyon, Monument Valley and Arches National Park. Photos and a Google KML map below. Colorado to California California Grand Canyon Monument Valley Arches National Park Click to download a Google Earth KML file of our route.
Nov
02
2009
2009_10_29_October_SnowstormPosted by ed in Property, tags: Greyhound, Kubota, Snow, Tractor, VizslaVideo of me plowing the driveway. 2009_10_29_October_Snowstorm from Ed Soehnel on Vimeo. Video of the dogs playing. 2009_10_29_October_Snowstorm_Dogs_Playing from Ed Soehnel on Vimeo. Pictures below.
Oct
25
2009
2009_10_25_Driveway_and_Snow_and_NACS_ShowPosted by ed in Property, Travel, tags: Erosion, Las Vegas, NACS, Snow, Timber, TractorThere are 2 pieces to this video. The first one was taken in August before I had started working on the driveway. The second piece was taken this weekend following completion of phase 1 work on the driveway, which was to channel water off of it to stop erosion. 2009_10_24_Driveway_Work from Ed Soehnel on Vimeo. Pictures below of driveway work as it was getting completed. Pictures from recent snow storm. We received about 6 inches. Pictures from the NACS show in Las Vegas October 21 2009. I flew in day before to setup booth and worked the first day and flew home in the evening.
Sep
03
2009
2009_09_03_Summer_Outdoor_ActivitiesPosted by ed in GPS-Maps, Property, Training, tags: Biathlon, Biking, Hail, Lightening, Rock Climbing, Running, Tornado, WeatherThis past summer was not quite all about working on the new house and property. I did take some time in outdoor activities. Biathlon Since the property did come with a little shooting range on it complete with timbers as a backstop, no doubt I take advantage of that little gem. I try to get out once per week and usually take my .22 biathlon rifle and do some running and shooting. Some targets below I scanned for safe-keeping.
Rock Climbing
I’ve owned a pair of rock climbing shows for 20 years. They have never gotten much use. I don’t own other safety equipment, so my rock climbing has always been staying very close to the ground and going horizontal versus vertical (called Bouldering). I really enjoy it and I now do it at least once per week on our big rock chimney. Maybe after I get our main barn repaired, I can build a climbing wall on it.
Local Area We have not checked out our local area too much for hiking and biking activities. I am slowly building a map of stuff I find via online research. In the future, we’ll start to do more of these activities.
Weather I am a weather nut and love Wunderground for all the weather data and maps it puts at our fingertips. We’ve had a very active summer thunderstorm and monsoon season, so its been pretty wild watching storms come rolling through. The house was hit by lightening twice (minor damage the first strike, but after that, we installed lightening rods), we were hit with 1 inch hail in one storm and I saw a tornado funnel cloud. It did not touch down, but was my first tornado experience. I took two images of local area thunderstorm activity from Wunderground. The little black squares represent lightening strikes. The second image shows a storm that was bearing down on our house and the purple triangle represented a tornado signature. The storm veered north and ended up missing us and also weakened.
Jul
26
2009
2009_07_26_House_ProjectsPosted by ed in Property, tags: Contractor, Retaining Wall, TractorHere’s a summary of house projects over the past month. Contractors Done Below are images of the the interior of the A-frame section of the house following completion of work by the contractors. We are mostly moved in and unpacked. Work was completed in early July July 4th Holiday Weekend Project The main project over the July 4th weekend was digging up all the plastic that was embedded underneath lose rock. The plastic was used to help channel water runoff from the roof away from the house. Since we replaced the roof and added gutters, there was no need for this plastic. Below is some video of the work. 2009_07_04_Yard_Work from Ed Soehnel on Vimeo. Retaining Wall Another project this month included removing more plastic and building a small retaining wall. Video below. 2009_06_18_Home_Retainer_Wall from Ed Soehnel on Vimeo. There are lots of other small projects and work we did, including painting and work on the driveway to control water runoff. Video and pictures on all that to come, as we are not finished. |