tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29625863505763558692024-02-21T15:17:05.837-08:00The LehrmansOne family trying to live differently.FarmerAmberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04744733257061570682noreply@blogger.comBlogger174125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2962586350576355869.post-26224058979475260642019-07-14T18:58:00.001-07:002019-07-14T18:58:35.707-07:00Moving into summer - the garden's bounty<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The busy of the growing season continues here on the farm.<br />
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The headline event for this week was our wonderful neighbor, Kyle Rohr, bringing his tractor and brushhog out to mow the farm. Normally we would bale the hay, but his baler wasn't working and we didn't want to mess with finding someone else, so he agreed to just mow it instead. The farm looks so much nicer with all the growth knocked back AND we can confirm to the county that we are continuing to follow our plan to prevent the lespedeza from multiplying. <br />
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The garden has started to really produce now. We dug all our potatoes this week - yukon gold, red pontiac and white nordland (I think) - and came away with about 100# of spuds. It isn't our best harvest, but it also isn't our worst. We only planted 3 beds this year (we've been planting 6) so not a bad showing all in all. We're also harvesting blackberries, currants, goji berries and our first ripe peaches! The peach tree we planted way back in 2012 is completely loaded with fruit this year. It is also infested with moth larvae. Its so disappointing to see such beautiful peaches and know that almost all of them have worms in them. Then, tonight, I also saw June Bugs munching away in big clusters on the ripe fruit. Sigh. I did some research on the moths and I think next year I'll put up some sticky pheromone traps to see if I can limit their damage. I'm also picking up all the dropped and caterpillar infested fruit to feed to the chickens. If I can't enjoy the peaches, at least I can enjoy the eggs! I've read about a molasses trap for june bugs but haven't tried it yet. Maybe I'll give that a whirl this week. Learning how to manage not just an organic orchard, but a no spray orchard is a priority for the next couple of years.<br />
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First squash, blackberries and a peach!</div>
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bed #1 potato harvest air curing</div>
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The same neighbor who mowed for us has a couple of piles of cow manure that we're steadily moving into the lower garden. We picked up 2 trucks full yesterday and got one of those unloaded. There were SOOOOOO MANY GRUBS! I swear that every shovel had 2 or 3 grubs in it. We collected all the ones we found as we unloaded and dumped them in with the chickens. They were in heaven! And, yes, between fruit, scraps and grubs our chickens are totally spoiled. <br />
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scoop of manure being dumped into the truck</div>
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Chickens going to town on a pile of grubs</div>
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It was also time for our regular battery maintenance on Saturday morning. We have to monitor the water levels in all the battery cells to keep them running at their best. In the summer time we're finding that we need to monitor them every 2 or 3 weeks. In the winter, it is less often. We pull each of the white caps off and top off the 3 battery cells underneath with distilled water, then replace the cap and go on to the next cell. The whole thing takes about 10 minutes. This time, while we were working, a tiny toad hopped into the ratchet set! He was too cute not to take a picture.<br />
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Jacob topping off batteries</div>
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A froggy friend visiting our work </div>
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The most amazing thing for this week was that I got to spend all day Saturday on the farm. There were no errands or functions or anything else to take me away. It was a solid day of working in the garden, spending time with Jeremy and focusing on doing the work I love to do. I need more of these days. It is good for my soul and body to do real work that I can see, to connect with this piece of the earth and to connect with my family. <br />
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The summer solstice has just passed and the earth has begun
its slow tilt back toward the winter solstice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The days that have been lengthening since Christmas are now shortening again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The change isn’t pronounced yet – the hottest
weather of the year has yet to come and the sun still shines well into the
evening – but for those that live in relationship with natural systems it means
a subtle but real shift in the year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
spring rush of growth is done and the trees and other plants have started
storing their winter starches and ripening their fruit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The greens turn from vibrant and light to
darker and more deep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The change isn’t
just in the plants though.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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The humans in this system also know that a shift is happening.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The summer has only just begun but for the grower,
winter is coming already.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The rush of
spring planting and planning is over; the garden is growing; summer crops are
getting their legs and setting first fruits while spring staples are fading. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For us, we will celebrate the start of summer
with food – creamed peas and new potatoes are the meal that says summer for us
and we have eaten it every year that we have had a garden big enough to grow
them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The meal is bittersweet and
delicious – a celebration of the start of the harvest season and also a
reminder that time is already running out to get food put up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are thankful that we don’t have to count
only on what we grow for our annual nourishment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The safety net of modern society and the
grocery store make the rush to put up the harvest a little less pressing and
stressful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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I’m finding this year more than many others that the
solstice is also bringing an introspection.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>At 40, I relate to this time of year more deeply.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am now at or just past the solstice of my
life – I am not getting stronger or taller, I have spent my youthful energy and
now am settled into my life’s pattern.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
feel much like the trees with my arms stretched to familiar sunshine enjoying
the built up years of work already done while still trying to reach a little
farther into the warmth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It has been a
good first 40 years by any measure, but the celebration is bittersweet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My children will move on from me soon and the
house will feel empty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While I can still
do a hard day’s work now, I know the time is coming where I will have to slow
down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My knees and shoulders already
tell me that I am not the 25 year old that started this journey so many years
ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know my winter is coming even as
I celebrate my life’s summer.</div>
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I think in some ways this is the greatest gift of living in
relationship with the land.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The annual cycles
of birth, growth, maturity, decline and death are comforting in their
familiarity and humbling in their inevitability.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As I walk with my plants and animals through
this cycle, I know that I too am going through the same cycle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know my own mortality deeply. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know that there is no way out of my own
physical decline and eventual death just as there is no way to avoid the coming
winter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I will celebrate the summer
harvest as I celebrate my own growth to this point and all that it has
created.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I will watch as each crop
declines just as I will one day not be able to keep the pace I do now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I will watch the leaves turn in the fall just
as my hair and skin will change and are changing already.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I will see the first frost kill the last of
the summer crops just as one day I will have to stop doing things I love.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The world will go to sleep under a blanket of
snow and I too will sleep one day with only memories to remind those who know
me of what I was once like. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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These changes are inevitable and ultimately welcome.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When we focus only on one time of year or of
life, then we miss the beauty of the others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I would not want to have a year without the autumn leaves or the crisp
mornings of fall and I don’t think I would consider my life fully lived if I
did not get to enjoy the young adulthood of my children and celebrate their life’s
spring with them, perhaps offering some wisdom gained from my own spring and
summer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I look forward to the coming of
age of the trees I plant this year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I will
walk more slowly under their shade than I do now and I will need help to care
for them, but what a wonderful autumn to my life to see their flowers in the
spring time and their leaves in the fall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>While I don’t look forward to the cold of winter, I do enjoy the wood
stove and the time to rest with family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I hope that the winter of my life will be filled with the warmth of love
and the deep rest of a life well lived.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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As I stand on the farm on this year’s solstice and recognize
my own life’s solstice, it is profoundly grounding and real.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I feel immersed in nature’s rhythm and I am
enjoying my small part in this great dance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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FarmerAmberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04744733257061570682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2962586350576355869.post-38303917309371500102019-06-20T05:51:00.000-07:002019-06-20T05:51:45.289-07:00First fruits<br />
Last weekend was the final weekend of KPI's first PDC at Heartland Farm in Pawnee Rock, KS. The drive out early Friday morning was beautiful and peaceful. I enjoyed several podcasts on the way.<br />
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Every group of students that comes through the PDC touches my heart in a new way. This group was special in so many ways, each and every one. Their design presentations and work on their designs was a great way to wrap up the course and I hope they are all as proud of what they have learned as I am.<br />
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We have been trying to wrap up some projects that have been lingering since last year. The biggest of them is finishing the revamp of the garden area. We put sides and mulched paths in about half of the garden last year and the result was well worth the effort. We found that by burying wood in a trench alongside each bed and then putting deep wood mulch in the aisles, we watered significantly less last season than we would have normally. To try and capture those benefits in the rest of the garden, Jeremy and Jacob spent a couple of days building bed sides for the remaining garden beds. Now we need to finish shaping the beds into their new forms and then get the aisles mulched. To that end, we had another load of wood chips dropped close to the garden.<br />
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Speaking of the garden! The green peas are ready and oh so delicious! We rarely grow very many of these because of the time required to shell them, but they are a real treat when they're in season. Hopefully, we will have our summer meal of creamed peas and new potatoes this week sometime. That seasonal meal signals the end of spring and the beginning of the summer garden bounty for us. <br />
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For only the second time in our gardening lives, we have a great crop of onions coming on! Normally, we have very small bulbs but this year they look amazing. We think the difference is using manure to amend the bed prior to planting. Typically we use compost but going forward we will try to put manure in the root crop beds and see if that makes a difference. These aren't quite ready to pull and put up, but they're getting really close. <br />
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Another first, the orphaned grape plant in the garden has grapes set on! Its hard to see in the picture, but there are several bunches of grapes growing on this vine. While we aren't completely sure of the variety, we're pretty sure its a wine grape. That will mean seeds, but that's not the end of the world. I hope to have time to do some work in the main vineyard this year to see if we can revive some more of the survivors there. <br />
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In an effort both to help the fruit trees develop and to smother out the lespedeza that is endemic to the top field, we are prepping for sheet mulch in both fruit tree areas. This week Jacob mowed the pasture around our top field fruit trees. Soon, we'll get cardboard and have another load of mulch dropped off to start sheet mulching under these trees. That should rapidly convert the soil's structure to be more fungal which will support the health of these trees. It will also let us inter-plant some more food plants with them like blackberries, raspberries and currants. This space can't be cut for hay anyway due to not enough room between the trees and the property line, so a food forest planting is a much more productive use of the space than its current form.<br />
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Speaking of fruit trees in the top field, the 2 plum trees finally made plums! These first ones are ripening early due to worms in them, but its still nice to see ripe fruit from the trees we planted back in 2015. There are more on the tree that aren't showing signs of worms, so we're looking forward to some plum snacks soon. The black ice plum in the lower orchard is absolutely loaded with fruit too! It is an older and larger tree than the 2 that produced these. We also have many plums set on both the Arkansas plum we grew from pits and the sandhill plums along our front swale. I'm hopeful that we'll have enough to make plum jelly and syrup this year. Plum jelly is a family favorite - sweet and tart and rich - and we haven't had the fruit to make it for several years. Hopefully 2019 will be the year!<br />
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Plant sales are a weakness. An advertised sale on chestnut tree seedlings led to 24 little trees getting planted into a garden bed for this year. Aren't they cute?! There are 3 each of 5 named varieties and then 9 chinese chestnut trees. After these little guys get a year to put on some more size, they'll be moved into their final place on the farm. Hopefully by then I'll know what that final place is...<br />
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The water garden continues to evolve as well. We've added a floating lilly, some more fish and a floating fern to the ecosystem there. It is wonderfully serene to sit and listen to the water, watch the fish swim and see the flowers around it bloom. This lily is particularly beautiful right now.<br />
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The early summer is always a magical time on the farm. The vegetables are growing - the spring crops are bearing and coming out, the summer crops are really getting their legs under them, the fruit is swelling on the trees and it isn't unbearably hot yet. As we continue building the farm this season, there is so much to enjoy and be grateful for. <br />
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<br />FarmerAmberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04744733257061570682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2962586350576355869.post-22766888089903930902019-06-11T09:52:00.000-07:002019-06-11T09:52:12.371-07:00Spring on the FarmAfter rain that seemed like it would never end, things are getting into full swing here. The house is basically done (very minor trim left) and we are fully focused on growing more food on the farm.<br />
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The first new thing for this year was trying to graft our own fruit trees. Amber grafted 15 plum trees and 11 of them took! Of the 5 pears, none made it though. We did get to keep 2 grafted pears from the Permaculture Grafting workshop this spring, so we have 2 new pear varieties growing in the nursery. Along the way, Amber managed to slice her finger pretty seriously also. Pay attention to knife safety! It matters! <br />
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Grafts right after they were completed above and scion wood leafing out of a successful graft to the right.<br />
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On April 27th, we hosted the last field session of the KU Permaculture class Amber teaches. To prepare, Amber cleared out the southwest corner of the property in preparation for sheet mulch and planting as a food forest. There was a lot of scrub sumac and wild grape to remove as well as weeding to do along the existing swale planting. The area is marked by 3 volunteer mulberries along the fence line, the swale to the west, a black walnut and sandhill plum on the northwest and an Arkansas plum we grew from a plum pit on the northeast. Once the area was mowed, it was ready for the field session!<br />
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Over about 3 hours, the group laid down cardboard, manure and wood chips over the entire area. Then we planted oregano, rhubarb, irises, daylillies, fernleaf tansy, peony, echinacea and tulip bulbs. An elderberry bush got added later to the center of the area (it didn't make it in time for the field session). It was a wonderful end to a fun semester! <br />
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At the end of May, we hosted a graduation party for Jacob. It is incredibly hard to believe that he is that old, but here we are! Part of the preparation for the party was cleaning up some of the remnants from the house construction. The space by the driveway that has been the wood yard since 2014 was at the top of the list because we needed parking space. This is what it looked like when we started over the weekend of May 11th.<br />
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This is what it looked like when we finished. <br />
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It was an exhausting weekend moving all the remaining wood into consolidated piles elsewhere, stacking the pallets up on the pallet pile, cutting out all the sumac and dogwood saplings and then mowing the entire area. It is wonderful to have it done though! We didn't have enough time to take down the concrete form shed, but getting this area done makes a huge difference to how the house looks as you drive up. <br />
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Right now, we are enjoying the last of the spring lettuce and
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The cabbage is growing well under its row cover. Hopefully we'll have some nice heads to make sour kraut from and eat over the next few months. Here's a peak under the cloth at the end of May. <br />
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We finally found a tree service that will deliver wood chips to us at the farm. We have so many projects planned that will need wood chips! This really is a huge time saver for us. The first load of wood chips got dumped by the house and is being used to mulch the "yard" and the new garden area. The second load went to the area along the bottom of the drive way. The plan is to plant this narrow strip with fruit trees in the fall (the ones that were grafted this year hopefully). <br />
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With the extra time now that we aren't milking, we finally got to do some landscaping around the house. Amber and the kids built this flower bed with a small goldfish pond over the last couple of weeks. The flowers are all perennials, so hopefully we can enjoy them for many years to come. The pond pump is solar and seems to be doing very well so far. We added a dozen feeder goldfish this past weekend and after a couple of losses, the rest are making themselves at home. <br />
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Last weekend, we stumbled onto a mother turtle laying eggs on the path down to the garden! It was beyond cool to find. I've also never seen a turtle that big that wasn't a snapping turtle! It was a red-eared slider water turtle. After consulting with a turtle expert I work with, we put a protective cage over the nest so that predators can't dig it up. We kinda hope to catch the babies when they hatch and maybe get a pet turtle out of the deal too. <br />
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This past weekend, along with finishing the flower bed, we also did some garden maintenance. The unmulched paths in the garden were way overdue for mowing and the blackberries were getting smothered with weeds. Jeremy spent Saturday morning mowing and Jacob and I attacked the blackberry row. Here it is just as we got started.<br />
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And this is the finished product. You can actually see the blackberries! The piles of weeds in the aisle give some indication just how much stuff we pulled out of the row. <br />
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After we finished weeding, the 3 of us harvested mulberries from the new sheet mulched area. We were pleasantly surprised to find that one of the three volunteer mulberries is a white mulberry! Our neighbors have a white mulberry that must be the parent of this one. The berries are so sweet and the trees were just covered in them. It was a reminder of the natural bounty around us and how with just a little care, nature will provide in abundance. <br />
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Last night, I picked up 4 volunteer peach trees from a co-worker. They were grown from pits of a naturalized peach tree on their property, so we don't exactly know what we'll get from them. The parent trees are very hardy and produce tasty peaches, so we have hopes that these will do the same. For the moment, they are heeled into an empty garden bed along with some irises that need a different home. Eventually, they will help start a second row of fruit trees in the top field or they will go into the new area along the driveway. In exchange, I will give her a pair of the plums I grafted this spring. Yay fruit trees and barter! <br />
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As I walked back to the house from heeling in the peach trees, I was met with a gorgeous field of wild flowers. Life on the farm is beautiful in so many ways and sometimes it just catches you when you don't expect it. We hope you are enjoying the beautiful spring as much as we are! <br />
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Carmel w/ 2 buck kids ($400) - 50% boer / 50% Kiko 2 year old out of Winona above. Had a single last year and twins this year with no issues. Friendly and easy to handle. Her kids are growing very well and she is a great mother to them. <br />
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year and twins this year with no issues. Friendly and easy to handle. We milked her last year so she could easily be a dual purpose goat for a family. She produced over half a gallon of milk a day for the season last year. <br />
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Hermione ($200) - Yearling. Successfully birthed twins but we didn't get there in time during the cold snap and lost them. Very easy to handle and friendly. 75%
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I am happy to answer any questions about these does or their kids. Please reach me by email at jajlehrman@yahoo.com or by phone/text at 785-393-1572.<br />
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We decided to order a butcher block top for the kitchen island. We found one very reasonably priced through MSC Industrial supply. Everything on the order looked perfect and it was set to arrive the same week as the counter tops were due to be installed. I planned to take that day off work to finish the butcher block while the other counter tops were being placed - it was going to be perfect! I should have known it wouldn't work out that way. When I checked the tracking information online, I found a note that the butcherblock delivery address was illegible and it was being returned to the MSC distribution center in Georgia after it had made it all the way to Kansas City. Then I had to wait several days and make SEVERAL phone calls to get them to re-ship one to us. It finally arrived and after a light sanding with ultrafine grit sandpaper, I sealed it up and it is beautiful! We love it!<br />
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With that finished, we started digging out all the rest of the boxes of kitchen stuff that have been in storage for well over a year. Our pie plates, cookie sheets, bread pans, cookie cutters and a host of other kitchen tools are all carefully stored away in the new kitchen cabinets now. <br />
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Then it was time to get the last lighting circuit done (finally). The dining room light was first. We found this fixture at the Habitat Restore several months ago. It reminds us of Jeremy's grandparents cabin light fixtures so it was a natural fit for our house. With it complete, I turned to the other 2 light fixtures in the kitchen. It took a bit of work to get all the wires run, boxes built and lights mounted, but the result is just what we wanted. <br />
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Out of all the rooms in the house, we put the most thought into the kitchen and it shows. We spend most of our time at home in the kitchen - our lives revolve around food in so many ways that it is only natural for us to spend most of our waking hours doing some form of food work. Despite having a very small house (less than 1000 sq feet all told), 6 people can work comfortably in our kitchen. We're looking forward to it finally being the center of our lives again (instead of our lives revolving around building a house).<br />
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The list of things left to do before the house is completely finished is getting very short. We need to get the oven vent hood installed, build the linen closet upstairs, install the cedar trim around the window and door wells downstairs, install the cedar chair rail in the living/dining room and do all the trim work downstairs. Those aren't simple tasks, but given where we've come from it is a very manageable list of things to check off. Jeremy is well into working on the cedar for the window and door wells. Some of those boards may make their way into place this week even. I am working on the plans for both the vent hood and the linen closet. Its getting very close.<br />
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With the reduction in things still undone, our lives have continued returning to normal. We put up the Christmas tree on time this year (the weekend after Thanksgiving). We are making and decorating sugar cookies again this year. It has been several years since we really did that for the holidays and it feels so good to bring back that holiday tradition.<br />
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As another bonus, now that we have finished more of the weather stripping around the doors and capped off all the input pipes around the foundation, our little house is staying nice and warm with just our little wood stove! FarmerAmberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04744733257061570682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2962586350576355869.post-75114656744746794032018-10-02T07:31:00.001-07:002018-10-02T07:31:44.871-07:00Back in the garden! And a little more house...What an amazing year we have had so far. We finished the last of the tile in the storage hallway and we got some more outlets operational in the dining room and kitchen. Then it was time for a break from the house, so we shifted gears to the garden! <br />
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Beginning in the spring, we started prepping garden beds. First, we had to dig all the weeds out of them. That was a job! We also moved our asparagus patch from the bed along the hoop house into 3 garden beds in the main garden. In the process of dividing up the original 12 or so asparagus plants, we ended up with 80 separate crowns! That filled up our 3 beds and we gave some away. I love self-reproducing perennials.<br />
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We decided to build sides for the beds this year out of some of the live cut boards we weren't using for the house. We also dug hugel trenches along each bed. The trenches got filled with old logs and wood chips up to the level of the aisles. The idea is that the wood will soak up water when it rains and then release it to the garden bed during the dry periods. I have to say that the strategy worked. Even though we had drought weather for an extended period this summer, we only watered the garden 3 times and it was still one of the most productive years we've had for the limited crops we planted.<br />
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I have to say that it felt absolutely amazing to be back in the garden again. The smell and feel of dirt, little seeds tucked in and then growing into plants taller than I am, the joy of the first ripe tomato...these are the things that brought us to the farm to begin with. It is wonderful to be back at it again.<br />
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In addition to the usual annuals, we also bought and heeled in 50 root stocks for pears, plums and cherries. We hope to graft off of our existing fruit trees to these root stocks to increase the orchard.<br />
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We set up the chicken coop this spring also and stocked it with 10 laying hens. We lost some in the summer heat and had to replace them, but overall the girls are keeping us in plenty of eggs. It is wonderful to have farm fresh eggs again! <br />
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The garden harvest was very rewarding. We didn't plant as much variety as we normally would, but we still canned over a hundred quarts of tomatoes, green beans and soup. It was another return to normal to get the canners out. It was also an awesome opportunity to really test out our 6 burner propane stove! It was an investment, but so worth it to be able to put 2 canners and a large pot of tomatoes on the stove at the same time!<br />
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Along the way, we did finish the beetle kill pine wall boards in the living room and dining room. We still have to wrap up the upstairs landing with them, but we got to check 2 more walls off the list as finished. I think it turned out really well! <br />
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We also hired out the building of the kitchen cabinets. They were delivered and installed last week and they turned out perfectly! The doors and drawers are made out of the douglas fir we had milled from Colorado and we finished them to match the staircase. Now we just have to do the counter tops and then we'll have an actual kitchen again. Woo hoo!<br />
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I also finished the end wall of the laundry room and Scott got the electrical taken care of so that we could finally get a washing machine. No more laundrymat!!!! <br />
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And along with those finishing details, we got the laundry/utility lights wired and installed and got the light at the top of the stairs wired and installed. With a little more electrical tie up, we were able to have actual operating lights everywhere except the kitchen and dining room. <br />
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The stairs were the last holdup for getting the rest of the downstairs floor tiled. Because the tile pattern is centered on the front door (right in front of the stairs) and there is already a section of tile there under the wood stove, we had to begin the new tile on that side. With the stair feet locked down, we could finally put down the rest of the cement board. <br />
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Ultimately, we did tile in 4 phases to account for having to move stuff around on the first floor. First, we did the north 3/4 of the living room. Why 3/4 you ask? Because we still had to be able to get from upstairs to the bathroom and the kitchen while the tile set up, so we left a path without tile on the south side of the room and at the base of the stairs. This stage didn't get grouted immediately because we thought we would finish the dining room and then tile all of that side at one time.<br />
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Once that set up, we shuffled stuff around and did the tile in the dining room. Here is where our former plan kinda crapped out. We had to move stuff onto the living room tile to be able to clear out where the dining room tile had to go. Sigh. So we got the dining room done, grouted and sealed, then did the stuff shuffle again. <br />
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We decided to try a blitzkrieg day on Saturday the 3rd - finish all the tile in the main bay was the goal. That included putting cement board down in the kitchen, tiling the entry and south 1/4 of the living room and doing all the tile in the kitchen. Despite our best efforts and a very long day, we still had half the kitchen left when we had to call it a day. We still considered it a success though and we got to have Matt Jolley out to help again which is always fun. I grouted all the new tile and part of the old living room tile (that wasn't covered by stuff) on Sunday and sealed it up on Monday. Woo hoo for finished floor!<br />
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Weather was a constant concern through this process. The tile saw has to be set up outside which means that the weather has to be above freezing and not super windy. That limited the days that we could lay tile pretty significantly. Because of that, I took a day of vacation on a Thursday to finish laying tile in the kitchen rather than wait for another nice day on the weekend. Doing the other half the kitchen required installing the floor outlets first though, so Scott and Jeremy worked Wednesday night and got those installed. They were even able to place them so that the landed inside of the grey diamonds in the tile pattern! The result looked really nice when it was all grouted and sealed. With a solid day of work, Jeremy and I got the rest of the kitchen tile down. I couldn't do the grout the rest of the living room and the kitchen until Saturday, but I got it done just before bedtime on Saturday evening. Unfortunately, that meant cleaning up the grout lines in the living room without great lighting and while tired. When we looked Sunday morning there were several spots that needed patched so I did that on Sunday. The tile was finally sealed up and ready to have things put on it by Tuesday. <br />
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Finished tile </div>
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Floor outlets inscribed in the diamond</div>
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And with that, the downstairs suddenly got to be organized! The couch went to its final home in the living room, the buffet to its home, the piano and dining room table to their homes. The refrigerator is still waiting for the last electrical in the kitchen to get tied up, but finally being able to spread things out has made a huge difference. <br />
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We still have to wrap up the tile in the storage/utility area that was left from Christmas, but we're almost done with the floors downstairs. Hopefully that will happen in the next few days. Jeremy has already started cutting trim to finish out the spaces and I am eagerly looking forward to finishing up some other small projects that have been on the back burner while we focused on tile.<br />
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These milestones really bring home the length of the journey we've been on. Most of the time, we just put our heads down and keep plugging away at whatever is next on the list. It often seems like an endless list - a never ending treadmill of work on the house - then we get a moment where something goes back to being normal again that has been off for a long time. When we finally set up the couch again and sat down we realized it has been 6 months since we've had a couch to sit on. When we used a light switch to light up the living room instead of a lamp or headlamp, when we did the first load of laundry at home in so long, something started changing. The house felt more like home, more like "normal". We started to feel like our old life was coming back after a long hiatus. It feels good.<br />
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There's still plenty to do before the house is actually finished, but these little steps feel pretty huge to us. We've even started talking through the garden for this year! The light at the end of this very long tunnel of house building is getting brighter. Finally. <br />
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Another sign of the normal annual cycle of farm life arrived in the middle of January - kids! We had 6 does kid in the span of a week in January in the coldest weather we have ever kidded in. As a result, we lost our first kids - a really nice set of twins from Rosie. They were already frozen when we went to check on the goats. It is so hard to lose any of them. The other kiddings went well and all the mamas and babies are doing well. We had 8 kids from the other 5 does (3 sets of twins and 2 singles) and the cuteness has been irresistible ever since. We will have 2 or 3 more does kidding in another month or so, but for now we're enjoying this round.<br />
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First, we got the water heater working. I was elsewhere for this event so it didn't get photographed, but man was that first hot shower at home amazing! Finishing the vent stack for the water heater also enabled us to finish out the last of the laundry room/coat closet. We started by hanging the last drywall in that space, then moved on with the usual mud/sand/mud/sand exercise.<br />
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We got it primed and painted before the holidays, so I spent the time just before Christmas putting down cement board and laying tile in the laundry. For anyone not local, we have been in a deep freeze since just before Christmas eve, so getting the tiles cut for this work involved a very cold Jeremy running a tile saw well past dark while I carefully laid out tile and marked cuts. We ended the evening of the 22nd with all the tiles cut for the laundry and the first couple of rows in the coat closet. We couldn't keep going - it was just too cold to keep cutting - so the rest of the coat closet will get tiled later.<br />
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We were up early the morning of the 23rd to lay tile before we left town for Wichita. We were supposed to be there for lunch, so the race was on! I managed to lay all the tiles we had cut and Jeremy was amazing and cut a couple of re-do's and a couple of extras so we got a little more done than we thought we would. Here's what it looked like when we left town:<br />
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When we got back, I knocked the levelers off so we could walk on it more easily. There was one tile that didn't stick in one corner that I had to re-lay, but the rest of the floor was solid. Woo hoo! I felt pretty good about that for my first attempt at laying tile. I got the tile grouted the day after Christmas and I think it turned out pretty well!<br />
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As my Christmas present to myself, I sealed up the coat closet studs and installed the coat hooks. I think our family must have 20 different coats and jackets that had been strewn around the house. It was driving me more than a little bit crazy! I feel much better now that they all have a home.<br />
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The coats have a home!</div>
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Meanwhile, Jeremy worked on the stairs for most of December. You saw the rough cut treads in the last post. Each of them got sanded 3 times, shaped, cut to length, any cracks filled with wood epoxy, sanded again and then Jeremy got to start on the runners and go through all of it again! Once everything was sanded and test fit, he put 2 coats of tung oil on them and it really brought out the grain and beauty of the douglas fir. The result is so worth the weeks of work! We got them installed on the 22nd, although they were held together with pipe clamps. The treads will get pegged into the runners just like the knee braces everywhere else in the house. It was so nice to finally fold up the ladder we had been using to get to the second floor!<br />
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Assembling the finished stairs </div>
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Now we are working on finishing the last of the sanding, mudding and painting downstairs and moving on with tile! Bit by bit, it is getting there. FarmerAmberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04744733257061570682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2962586350576355869.post-67730702498651422372017-12-08T14:27:00.000-08:002017-12-08T14:27:41.334-08:00Heat!Getting the wood stove installed and ready turned out to be a fairly involved process. First, we had to get the corner finished and tiled. Thanks to some amazing help from Chris Kesslering and, of course, Scott Dunn, we managed to get that done! The backsplash is slate and the floor tile is porcelain.<br />
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Scott working on the slate backsplash</div>
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Chris working on the floor tile </div>
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The finished corner!</div>
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We wanted to put the wood stove on a platform to make it easier to load, easier to sit by the fire and to gain some storage underneath. From that vague description, Jeremy created an amazing piece of incredibly functional and sturdy furniture. First, he made the pieces out of 3/4" furniture plywood.<br />
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With the pieces finished, it was time to assemble the platform! Once it was together, Jeremy tiled the top of it and then made cedar trim to match the other cedar details in the house. The finished platform is perfect!<br />
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Platform assembled and tiled - ready for the wood stove!</div>
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Finished platform with cedar trim</div>
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In the midst of working on all this, we found a really cool wood stove on Craigslist. It is unlike anything we've seen before but it was the right price and so we decided to give it a try. With the platform done, we set the wood stove and started piping the flu. Over the course of a few hours and with more help from Scott Dunn, we got the flu installed. Let me tell you, after a week of temperatures in the 50's in the house, that fire felt amazing!<br />
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We had been "heating" the house with candles and terra cotta pots for a couple of weeks. It was more than a little cold! <br />
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Jeremy and Scott making the flu connections</div>
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Here is our cool little Morso stove. It has been remarkably functional and efficient, not to mention being beautiful!<br />
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With heat in the house, we were finally able to get back to focusing on the stairs and the rest of the downstairs. Before the stairs can go in, the tall walls in the living room had to get the drywall finished, be painted and have trim installed. We also had to get the ceiling fan installed in the living room so that the rolling scaffolding could get taken down to make room for the stairs. First, we did drywall. I finally got to cut my teeth with a mud knife in addition to my already developed sanding skills.<br />
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Between Scott and I, we got all the drywall in the laundry room, dining room and living room finished and sanded. I spent Thanksgiving day sanding drywall and masking off all the wood for paint. <br />
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On the Friday after Thanksgiving, my Mother and Stepfather, Connie and Frank Bondurant, came up to help for the day. Mom, Catherine and I managed to get all 3 rooms primed and painted while Frank, Jeremy and Jacob got 2 walls of drywall done in the kitchen. As a bonus, we harvested the 15 rabbits we have been putting off for the last month. It was an amazingly productive and exhausting day.<br />
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I got to paint the tall wall (19 feet) and look down on the other 2! </div>
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Catherine had fun with the super extension roller.</div>
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Here are 3 of the 15 rabbits we harvested that day. It went fast with 3 of us! </div>
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We were all pooped after all that. A sit down was in order!</div>
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Since then, we have completed the trim on both tall living room walls and Jeremy has started work on the stairs. The stair runners are 3x10's and the treads are also, so this will be a serious staircase when its all done!<br />
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Treads cut and ready for sanding. </div>
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Here is the template for the runners in place. </div>
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We got the ceiling fan hung on Wednesday of this week so we can start disassembling the scaffolding finally! It will be nice to have the space back and not have that very visible piece of construction equipment sitting in the living room anymore. Getting up on a wobbly ladder on top of wobbly scaffolding was a bit intense though. Everyone was happy when that job was done!<br />
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Ceiling fan going in!</div>
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Next we will be working to finish the stairs, get the propane connected to the hot water and get the storage/utility room ready for tile. Bit by bit, it's coming together!<br />
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While Scott and I worked on flooring upstairs, Jeremy cut our leftover car siding into trim for the upstairs. This way it matches the ceilings and the beams and we don't have to buy more stuff.<br />
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Once the trim was made, he moved on to finishing out the windows. We used cedar boards milled from trees we cut off of my mother's family farm (where she was born) to finish out the deep window wells and do the window built in shelves in our room. They are absolutely beautiful thanks to Jeremy's amazing attention to detail. There is something really special about being able to tell my kids that when their grandmother was a little girl, she probably played around the trees that are now in their windows. You can read the story of us cutting those trees 5 years ago here: <a href="http://thelehrmans.blogspot.com/2012/11/logging-again.html">http://thelehrmans.blogspot.com/2012/11/logging-again.html</a><br />
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Sealing the boards after they were cut to fit.</div>
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The first finished window!</div>
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While Jeremy was busy with that, Scott and I hung the ceiling fans in the bedrooms, finished out the rest of the upstairs electrical and hung the doors. Doing the trim was somewhat tricky in that our beams are not square thanks to the trees growing on the side of a mountain. That meant that the trim around every beam and collar tie had to be custom cut which was a very fiddly, tedious process. The end result is beautiful though!<br />
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Doors hung</div>
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They were predicting a very cold couple of nights and we really wanted to get the kids into their rooms and out of the RV before that happened, so we were all in on getting the rooms done. We just made it! The kids got to sleep in their own rooms for the first time on the first near freezing night of this fall. Whew! Then we started moving the rest of their furniture in and put the finishing touches on Jeremy and I's room. <br />
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Our room with actual furniture!</div>
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With everyone in a more stable sleeping place, it was time to get the power on to the house. We had been running our refrigerator and a single lamp off of an extension cord from the outlet in the shed since August. Now that we had all the circuits upstairs and in the bathroom tied off and ready, we started the process to cut power over to the main house panel. First, we dug a trench and laid the heavy gauge wire in it inside of electrical conduit.<br />
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Then we killed the power to the power system in the shed - inverter, batteries, everything - to make sure no one got hurt. Then my amazing brother took care of connecting the wires to the appropriate ports on the inverter and in the house while the rest of us buried the conduit. <br />
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Then it was time to flip the switch! As you can see in the sneak preview above, it worked! There was much rejoicing that we didn't have to keep wearing head lamps around the house to see. It was a pretty awesome feeling to get to pull the extension cord out of the house for good!<br />
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Due to the impending cold weather, getting the place for the wood stove ready to go became the next top priority. The first step was to finish out the electrical by the front door since we needed to close up that wall. That involved installing the outside light and outlet. Scott and I knocked that out in about 2 hours last Wednesday.<br />
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Outlet and door light</div>
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Now we are focusing on getting the corner ready for the wood stove. It is going on a platform which Jeremy is busy building. One step at a time, we're getting there. It is starting to feel a lot more like home now though. <br />
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FarmerAmberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04744733257061570682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2962586350576355869.post-54427654347213577002017-09-26T11:00:00.001-07:002017-09-26T11:00:09.228-07:00Working on finishing rooms and plumbing!The last month has been busy. When we left off, we were continuing the work on drywall upstairs. Since then, we've finished the upstairs drywall and painted all 3 bedrooms. <br />
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Catherine in her very blue room</div>
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Jacob in his white room</div>
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Since we had the painting done in the bathroom already, I went ahead and built the built in shelves behind the bath tub so that I wouldn't have to work around the toilet later. It was a tight fit, but I like how it turned out!<br />
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Our amazing friend, Dan Saunders, came out to help with the PEX connections in our plumbing lines and to extend our propane line closer to the water heater which was awesome. When it was done, he set up an air test on the water lines. We pressurized the system to about 80 psi and.....it leaked. Crap. The search was on! We found 1 PEX connection leaking, 1 solder joint and 4 threaded joints leaking. Unfortunately, the threaded joints were all for the shower which meant I had to carefully disassemble the shelves in the bathroom so that they could be done over. Boo! Luckily, the came apart with only 2 pieces breaking. <br />
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While Dan was working on plumbing, Scott was busy with tile. He did a beautiful job on the floor and the shower surround. I almost can't believe we have such a beautiful space in our home. <br />
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Floor tile complete and waiting for grout</div>
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After all the leaks were fixed, we re-pressurized the system and it held steady at 100 psi. Woo hoo! I re-installed the built in shelves and we went to town finishing the bathroom. In the course of a day, Scott got the toilet mounted, vanity installed and the vanity sink plumbed except the drain (didn't have the right size trap kit). <br />
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Bathroom with all the furniture!</div>
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I polished off the drain the next day (last Sunday) and got the pocket door installed, so the bathroom is looking almost done now! We just need to do the trim around the door and the ceiling. Then the only thing stopping us from a hot shower at home is a vent for the water heater! Maybe this weekend...<br />
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Finished pocket door</div>
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Last night, I started laying the floor in Catherine's room. We're using snap together hardwood/composite flooring in a dark oak. It looks really nice and is pre-finished which is a huge time saver. The bedrooms lack finished electrical, ceiling fans, flooring, trim and doors. While that seems like a long list, it isn't much when you consider where we started. <br />
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Beginning of the floor in Catherine's room</div>
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Parts of the house are starting to look like a house! <br />
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Along with the progress on the inside, Jeremy got all of the windows and doors pointed so that they are completely water tight. Woot!<br />
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Jeremy pointing on the west wall</div>
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Drywall beginning in the bedrooms</div>
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Completed eave wall</div>
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Along with drywall, we have been working diligently to get the bathroom ready. We managed to find an unfinished solid maple door on clearance at Menards, so I spent some time putting a nice tongue oil finish on it. I think it turned out pretty well!<br />
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Sealed bathroom door</div>
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The next step in the bathroom once the tub was in was to install the bathroom fan and lights and then close up the ceiling to hide the duct work. The bathroom is the only room where the beams are not exposed. <br />
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Completed bathroom ceiling</div>
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With the ceiling in place and all the plumbing roughed in, we installed the greenboard on all the walls. In a testament to how much we now appreciate the little things, we celebrated that the bathroom had walls! <br />
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The same day, we finally got to put up the car siding wall in the living room. Eventually the stairway and some built in shelves will cover this wall, but for now it is the only visible and finished wall in the entire house! Scott and Jeremy were a little slap happy at the end of it. <br />
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Our final milestone happened yesterday. We finished insulating the exterior walls with pink foam. That meant we could finally get all the little bits of foam out of the house and start hanging sheetrock in the living spaces. Woo hoo!<br />
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We have help coming today to work on sheetrock. With a little luck, we'll get all the tall pieces up on the walls. We should also get the first round of putty sanded such that later this week we can start painting in the bathroom. That is super exciting as it is one of a very short list of steps before we can do tile and (finally) have a functioning bathroom in the house! Its all about the little things for us at this point. <br />
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Then we moved on to more framing. First, we framed the walls around the bathroom so that Scott could get the electrical and plumbing going there. Then we did the walls upstairs around our room and between the kids rooms. It was so awesome the first time we could stand in the space and actually see the walls!<br />
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Completed upstairs interior framing</div>
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We weren't done framing yet though. All of the exterior walls have to have boards attached as a fir wall to mount the final wall covering to. That process took a while. We also had to cut channels in the garage doors for any wires that had to cross studs since the fir wall is only 1.5" deep. <br />
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Fir wall in Jacob's room</div>
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We also had to do the pocket door for the bathroom. It was the first time we had every done a pocket door and it was, thankfully, not too bad. That finished the last of the bathroom framing!<br />
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While we worked on that, Scott worked on the plumbing. When he assembled the vent stack, I got to climb up on the roof to do the roof cut and seal. Did I mention that I hate heights? It was actually ok. Having the scaffolding available to set up and Jeremy there to help hand stuff up to me made it so much easier. We also discovered that rubber cement painted on the soles of tennis shoes gives great traction on a metal roof! That will come in handy since we have a couple more trips onto the roof to make before we're done (water heater vent and finishing the chimney).<br />
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With the fir walls finally done, we started insulating the exterior walls. The rigid foam insulation both boosts the walls to around an R35 and gives some extra rigidity to the drywall since we built the fir wall on 24" centers. It does take some time to cut it to fit for each cavity though. We aren't quite done with that step yet.<br />
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Meanwhile, Scott has gotten almost all the water lines in! We finally got to set the tub in position permanently this week. <br />
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There's a bathtub! And we don't have to pick it up again!</div>
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Technically, we are ready to start hanging drywall in all the bedrooms and the upstairs bath now. Talk about an exciting feeling! We still have to finish insulating and doing the last couple of runs of electrical in the walls before we can button up the downstairs though.<br />
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First sheets of drywall are on site!</div>
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Lastly, Jeremy began trimming out all the windows and doors this week. They are looking great! More importantly, this is the last step before we can submit our "finished house" pictures to the county to get our certificate of occupancy. <br />
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As always, the work continues day by day. Each day there are small milestones - a washer drain is done, a door is trimmed, a new section is insulated - and over time it adds up to real progress. It is a long slow process though. Each new milestone feels great, but there are still so very many of them to get through. Every day, little up.<br />
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FarmerAmberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04744733257061570682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2962586350576355869.post-74737555207185075202017-06-20T08:20:00.000-07:002017-06-20T08:20:05.161-07:00We have (interior) walls!Picking up where we left off... <br />
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Once the gas line and all the electrical runs were in the floor, we put down the rest of the subfloor. It was heavy and slow work, especially the parts I did by myself. A 4x8 sheet of 3/4" plywood is rather heavy! We had to leave one corner open because in the process of building the stone walls we managed to break a drain pipe in the slab. We had to repair it before we could finish the floor and, naturally, the repair required a mail order only part, so that corner had to wait an extra week. <br />
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Subfloor except for the broken pipe area</div>
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We kept going though! Over the weekend of June 10th, Jeremy and Scott framed and installed the 2 downstairs walls. The bathroom, laundry space and a storage space all go into that corner and the electrical was held up until it was installed. As with all the other parts of the house, Jeremy and I changed our minds about exactly where the walls were going the night before they went up. LOL. <br />
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Scott assembling the wall</div>
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Jeremy standing the wall up while I attach it to the south wall</div>
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The finished corner room</div>
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Jeremy spent all day on Monday leveling the floor joists on the east end of the loft so that we could put down the car siding that makes the ceiling in the dining room and kitchen and the subfloor for the kids' rooms. He finished it up on Tuesday morning, then we started laying floor on Tuesday evening. By the end of the week, we had the subfloor in and the garage panels installed and it felt like a real loft! Catherine was enjoying 4H camp, so Jacob was clutch on getting the garage doors and car siding installed. I don't know what we would have done without him. <br />
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View from the kitchen of the new ceiling on Tuesday night</div>
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Subfloor in the loft</div>
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The finished and the unfinished loft areas</div>
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One problem we had to solve was how to support the dividing wall between the kids' rooms. It falls directly between 2 floor joists. We didn't really want it to just be resting on the subfloor and garage doors, so Jeremy and Jacob imbedded wooden sleepers in the garage door layer that span the gap between joists. This way the weight of the wall will be supported on the sleepers which are supported by the joists. Problem solved!<br />
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Sleepers in the floor</div>
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The parts arrived to fix the drain on Wednesday and I did the repair on Friday night. We already had the subfloor cut and ready to go, so it only took an hour or so to get it all closed up and ready for us to finish the first floor framing (except the tall living room bay).<br />
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This past weekend, we did a lot of divide and conquer. Jeremy and I and the kids worked on finishing the frame out in the bathroom so that we could be set up to do the loft floor for Jeremy and I's room. We also decided to turn what was going to be our closet into a half bath instead. It will be nice to not have to go downstairs in the middle of the night. That does add to the complexity of the plumbing rough in though. Scott is taking the change well, thankfully. <br />
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Speaking of Scott! While we worked on framing, he worked on the electrical panel. He got all the floor runs tied off and then started pulling wire through the downstairs walls for the kitchen and bathroom. It was a very productive day all the way around.<br />
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Sunday, Jeremy and I enjoyed a very pleasant, 80 degree Father's Day working on the house. LOL. Jeremy got the joists on our side of the loft leveled for floor and I framed in the front wall of the kids' rooms. Then, around 4 we went to town to buy all the stuff for the bathroom. A tub, surround, vanity and toilet later, we have a bathroom sitting in boxes in the (will be) living room of the house. It was an expensive day but felt really good to be buying finishing stuff finally.<br />
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This week, we are pushing toward getting the walls up around the downstairs bathroom so that the final plumbing and electrical rough in can happen this weekend. Jeremy and the kids are also putting down the car siding in Jeremy and I's room and then the garage doors. It's really starting to look like a house inside!<br />
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Once both eaves and soffits were installed, we started putting the roof pieces on. When I say "we" I mean mostly Jeremy. I tried really hard to get on the roof and help but my fear of heights got me in a big way. Instead, I ferried everything from the ground up to Jeremy for a long, hard weekend as he walked the roof. Each metal piece had to be carefully aligned with the ones already on the roof which meant he had to be at the peak and I had to be at the eave to line it up and then tap it in place with a rubber mallet. It was slow work, but it looked exactly the way we wanted when we were done!<br />
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Jeremy on working on the north side roof - he's my hero!</div>
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It took almost a full day to get the chimney box installed correctly and then cut the roofing panels around it. The result is great! The bucket (in case you're wondering) is to keep the rain out until we put the finished chimney stack on.<br />
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After the roof panels and chimney came the gable end pieces. They wrap all the way around and then have soffit covers like the north and south eaves, so they took a bit of work to get right, but it looks great now. Last came the ridge cap! In the picture below, you can see the first 2 windows installed also.<br />
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The roof got finished on 5/10 just before a rain storm (note the grey clouds in the pictures above). Next came buttoning up the rest of the outside which meant windows! Luckily, there aren't very many of them in the house, so it didn't take too long to get them installed. We also found 3 nice exterior doors at the Habitat Restore and painted them to match each other. Installing them in our very non-standard house took a bit of work, but they look beautiful now.<br />
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The white house wrap you see will be covered with cedar siding made from the cedar trees we harvested at my uncle's farm in Arkansas and some we got from western Kansas at some point in the future. For now, it sheds water so we moved inside.<br />
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In the in between time on the roof, Jeremy, Matt and my brother, Scott, managed to get the floor framed in and a section of subfloor installed so that we had a solid place to put things in the house. Now we run into another unique challenge from the building method we picked. The interior walls are only furred out (1.5"), not full studs, so any horizontal run of wire that goes through an exterior wall has to get routed into the garage doors. Also, all the light switches and outlets have to get routed out because they need more than 1.5" of clearance in the wall. Our answer? Sharpies. We drew all the wire runs on the wall with all the outlets and notes for what was supposed to go where, then Jeremy cut out all the channels and boxes.<br />
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Finished subfloor in the living/dining room and windows!</div>
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At that point, Scott could start pulling wire through the floor. Again, since we don't have a lot of interior walls and horizontal runs take routing, most of the main power runs have to go through the floor and then vertically up the exterior walls. All the floor runs also have to go in before we can finish putting down the subfloor which has to happen before we can do the rest of the wall framing and....you get the picture.<br />
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Wire to the panel - the only actual normal framed wall section in the house....</div>
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While Scott was pulling wire, I started on a section of wall framing on the existing subfloor. The studs are 2x4's on their side that are screwed into the garage doors and to each other to make a solid wall system. The window makes the picture a little dark, but hopefully you can get the idea.<br />
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The first stud wall! </div>
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The other thing that has to go in the floor is the gas line. Luckily, we know a master pipe fitter who volunteered to do the line for us. Thank you, Dan Saunders!<br />
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Installing the finished assembly</div>
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So that brings us to now. We have a few more wire runs to go in the floor this weekend, then we'll start closing it up. It's coming together!<br />
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We got Catherine on the roof while putting up the decking</div>
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Finished decking from the inside</div>
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The first layer of tar paper protects the decking from moisture </div>
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The roof is insulated with the same garage door panels we used on the walls. There are a total of 3 layers or 6" of garage doors on the roof which makes for roughly an R45 roof system. Unfortunately, they take a lot of time and work to cut to fit and get all the way up on the roof, so the insulation process took a couple of weeks.<br />
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Layers going up</div>
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All the seams are taped to prevent air infiltration and we installed toe boards to help with walking on the roof. The metal is a bit slick!</div>
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So that's where we are! We have one more side of tar paper to do plus the chimney box. Once that's in place, we'll (finally) be ready to install the metal roof!<br />
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Due to some very high winds preventing us from working on the roof earlier this week, we moved inside and started getting ready for the inside finishing. It took a bit of work to clear out the combined detritus from the walls and roof, but the first floor is clean now! It felt like an important milestone when we removed the 3 tiers of scaffolding that had been standing in the house since we finished the walls. We can't wait to finally start on the inside!<br />
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Cleaned out first floor</div>
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As always, there are people to thank for all the progress. Matt Jolley continues to be a huge help. We couldn't do all this without his near constant aid. Our friend, Jule, has leant his much needed expertise on the roof also. Its an amazing community and we continue to be humbled by all those who have stopped to lend us a hand!FarmerAmberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04744733257061570682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2962586350576355869.post-62613457788500913652017-03-21T10:17:00.000-07:002017-03-21T10:17:03.422-07:00Raising the timbers - finally!We took a nice break after we finished the walls. We were exhausted and it was the holidays which made for a good excuse to recuperate for a few weeks. With the new year came renewed work on the house though. <br />
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We had unseasonably warm weather for January and February which helped tremendously! We got to seal up the beams with linseed oil on the ground instead of doing it once the house was enclosed. That saved a ton of time! Jeremy also came up with an awesome idea to use a sprayer to put the linseed oil on since we needed a nice heavy coat anyway. We mixed boiled linseed oil half and half with mineral spirits to help with penetration in the wood grain and did 2 coats on all the beams.<br />
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First we had to create a wind break to work. Thank goodness for old concrete blankets!</div>
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A birds eye view of the sealed beams part way through</div>
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First coat on rafters outside</div>
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Finished beams in the house</div>
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Once they were sealed and ready, we had to do the final prep on the walls. We imbedded foam blocks in the concrete everywhere that a beam needed to fit in the wall. We now had to remove the foam and do a final leveling coat of concrete on the bottom of each pocket. That was a pain, but the beams needed a nice flat surface to rest on so it was necessary.<br />
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Then came the big day! Well, actually it happened over a couple of days and with amazing help from our North Village community. We can't say enough about Dave Schmidt and Tim O'Brien for donating their experience to the effort and, of course, Matt Jolley and Doug Dubois were there to help get all the beams in position. We rented a hand crank lift to get the beams up to the right height in the walls and that worked even better than we'd hoped. It was well worth the money to not have to try and lift them all up by hand...especially the 22' long beam in the middle of the house!<br />
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Lifting the first beam</div>
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Lifting the 22' summer beam</div>
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Thank goodness for the lift!</div>
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It fits!</div>
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Jeremy with the finished ridge beams</div>
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The first rafter pair</div>
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Here we stopped for the first day - 2 rafters up!</div>
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A close up of the center beam of the house with all the pegs installed</div>
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A look at all the rafters plus some of the soffits</div>
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View from the inside before we started the roof</div>
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Once the beams were finally up, we took a breather and started sealing up the car siding we are using as decking on the roof. Again, the warm weather made it possible to do this work on the ground instead of in the air after the wood was installed. <br />
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On Saturday, 3/18, we started on the roof with a work party. We were blessed with many helpers from the community - Susan Jones, Matt Jolley, Evie Schliffe, Ben Stallings, Robbie, Jewel, my brother Scott Dunn, and our whole family. They say that many hands make light work and I would add that many hands that know how to build things makes for even lighter work! In about 5 hours on Saturday we managed to get the soffits hung for half the house and about half of that span decked. The work continues!<br />
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Where we left the decking on Saturday</div>
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Matt and Ben on the roof!</div>
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The progress continues this week. There's rain predicted for the end of the week so we'll see if we have enough of a roof on that it doesn't rain in the building! <br />
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Jeremy at the north west corner</div>
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The east and south walls</div>
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The west and south walls</div>
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Once we had the forms off and got to see the finished walls, it gave us new energy to keep going. The next project was an enclosure to set up the shopsmith and a table saw to do prep work on the wood for the house (tongue and groove flooring and siding). Luckily, we had a bunch of 2x4's with siding already on them on site - concrete forms! Jeremy set up this temporary shed with our concrete forms over the course of the last week.<br />
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Finished concrete form shed</div>
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Then, yesterday, we moved the 5 rafter pairs for the house into the shed to be cut to length. Once these are ready and we finish installing the sill plates, we'll be ready for the frame raising! Step by step, we'll get there eventually.<br />
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Rafters in the shed</div>
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On Monday, 11/28, we filled the second lift on the east gable. <br />
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Jeremy and Matt Jolley working on the wall (I mixed concrete)</div>
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On Tuesday, Matt and Jeremy moved the forms up and finished the east wall (woo hoo!).<br />
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At this point, we knew we were under the gun. The forecast was getting colder and our window for getting concrete to set up properly was getting really narrow. We had 3 lifts to finish on the west wall before it got really, really cold. Because of that, Jeremy worked after dark to get the rocks cut to fit under the roof line Tuesday night.<br />
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On Wednesday, Jeremy, Matt and Tucker Saunders set up the forms for the first lift on the West wall and got the first 2 sections filled. It was a very long day in the wind and cold. These guys are my heroes!<br />
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Saturday morning we were all working by 9AM to finish the second gable lift. We hoped to get the forms set for the last lift before the day was done, but we didn't quite make it. Fortunately, the weather was mild and not windy. Matt brought his son, Sebastian, out too and he, Tucker and Catherine had a good day working with us. We finished the day with the second lift done and the forms staged for the last lift.</div>
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The peak is particularly challenging because all the rocks have to be custom cut to fit under the roof pitch and the sill plates have to be set precisely. It took an inordinate amount of time to get that little triangle done, but we wrapped it up about 4:30. The very last thing we did was build and pour the pedestal that the center post sits on in the center of the house. </div>
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Jeremy on the wall with me at the start of the day</div>
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The view of the kids making concrete from the top of the scaffolding</div>
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The pier in the center of the house</div>
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And so, almost 4 months to the day from when we took the forms off to look at the very first lift, we put the last stones in the wall. We began this journey in July with Jeremy and I casting the very first corner. It has been a tremendous joy to work with my family on this house and it was very appropriate and poetic that it was just us there to set the last stones. <br />
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Throughout this building project, Catherine has been stuck with an almost invisible but incredibly important job - making wire ties. These little bits of twisted wire sit under every rock in the wall to give it that much more grip in with the rest of wall. Over the house project, she made literally thousands of ties. Here she is with one of the last batches.</div>
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I can't write a post about finishing the stone walls without saying thank you to a lot of people though. Matt Jolley has been a life saver giving of his time and experience to get us through these last lifts. Tucker Saunders has been clutch and invaluable with his constant positive attitude and willing to do whatever needs done. Chris Kesslering gave up his days off to come out throughout the project throughout. To all the folks who came out for a day or two - Susan Pauls, Nancy Ward and family, Scott Dunn, Doug Dubois, Sara Lehrman, Tim O'Brien - thank you for helping us through some tough days. Scott Dunn gets a call out for welding our door lintels late into the night so that we could keep building on schedule. A special thank you goes to Tim O'Brien and Otto Lehrman for loaning us scaffolding. I have no idea how we would have done this without it! Thanks to Erin Schmidt for taking the kids to school and bringing them home so that Jeremy could get a few extra hours in each day. This was really a community effort and we appreciate everyone who pitched in. I'm sorry if I missed anyone, but know that we are deeply grateful for all of you! </div>
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The first running water at the house site!</div>
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We started moving forms up for the last full lift on the 14th. As the work gets taller, everything takes longer. We are tremendously grateful for the loaned scaffolding that is enabling us to do this work at all. There's no way we'd get it done with ladders! <br />
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With the forms set, we started pouring on the north wall on the 16th. This was particularly exciting because this lift finished the north wall! We set bolts in the wet concrete to hold the sill plate and screed the concrete as level as we could. It felt amazing to actually have a wall completely done!<br />
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We spent Thanksgiving weekend continuing the work. We finished the lift on Friday and set the forms for the first lift on the East gable end. With completion of the South wall, we have 2 walls completely done! <br />
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The north wall revealed!</div>
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On Saturday and with the help of my brother and his daughter, we managed to finish the first gable lift. This introduced some new challenges. The rocks on the edges are cut to match the roof slope and we have to continue setting bolts for the sill plate along the angle edge. Our solution was to set the first layer of sill plate with the bolts already installed in smaller sections. The second layer will be continuous to tie it all together. At this point, the working platform is a solid 12 feet in the air and every bucket of cement has to get pulled up on the end of a length of ratchet strap, emptied and then tossed back down. We are like a little hive of ants running around moving materials up to the wall and then cycling them back down again!<br />
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Sill plates on the gable end</div>
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Sunday was mostly a day to rest due to rain, although we did start setting the forms for the second gable lift (of 3). One more pair of forms to set in the morning and then we'll spend the rest of the day laying stones. With a little luck and a lot of work, we'll get that lift done and be on track to finish the East wall on Tuesday before the weather turns on us. <br />
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The sun is rising and Jeremy and Matt are already putting rocks in the wall</div>
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Jacob and Sebastian ran the 2 mixers for the morning. Jeremy and Matt stayed on the wall. We had another family come help around 9:30, the Wards (Nancy, Mark, Stewart and Electa), and the 4 of them divided up between helping get materials on the wall, sand around rocks and filling buckets of materials for the mixers. Susan Pauls arrived a little later and jumped right in too! We kept a good system going and managed to finish the rest of the west wall and all of the south wall in a little over 3 hours!<br />
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Electa and Stewart on the left, Jeremy in the middle, Mark and Matt on the right. Everybody on the South wall!!</div>
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Unfortunately, after our lunch break around noon, the Wards had to leave. We scaled down to 1 mixer and Amber started mixing. Susan was a huge help until she had to leave at 3 or so and we finally finished the East wall as the sun was setting. <br />
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Susan filling sand buckets for the mixer (Amber)</div>
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Putting the finishing touches on the East wall.</div>
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As a bonus (that I forgot to take pictures of), my cousin Jessica Bartlett came up to visit too! It was amazing to get to see her again. I only wish I'd had more time to talk and catch up.<br />
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We are officially 12 feet tall! The process of moving forms up for the final full layer has already begun and continues all this week. We are racing cold weather and pushing to get the stonework done!FarmerAmberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04744733257061570682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2962586350576355869.post-27245681136617043712016-11-03T17:44:00.000-07:002016-11-03T17:44:26.940-07:00Building update - 10 feet tall!Sorry for the radio silence - we've been pretty focused on the stonework for a while now. <br />
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When we last left the story, we were at 2 feet tall. As we were enjoying the first 2 feet of stonework, we started working out how we were going to move our forms up the wall. We quickly realized that the easiest thing to do would be to make another set of forms (so 2 complete sets) so that we could always stack the new form on top of the one we just filled. Since each layer is wired into the wall, as soon as the concrete sets up it is locked in place. That way we don't have to create some kind of stilts to prop up the forms while we lock them in. So, we stopped and spent a week building a second set of forms.<br />
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This time, we made almost all of them without the plywood face. All of the new forms then went on the inside of the building where we have garage doors to stop the concrete from coming in. This saves a TON of weight when moving the forms up and made assembling the new forms go much faster. Then we had to re-set the original forms around the stonework we had just completed so that we could stack the new set on top of them. From there, we have been leap frogging forms up the wall!<br />
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Setting up the second lift</div>
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We have found that we can do approximately 1 linear feet of stonework per person working per hour.. That means that one 2 foot lift around the 104' of perimeter wall for the house takes about 100 person-hours of work to complete. It takes an additional 60ish hours to cut the garage doors, move the forms up, level them and lock them in place. That brings the total labor required per lift to around 160 hours. There are 7 full lifts in the house, so you start to get an idea of how much of a time commitment it is.<br />
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You can see the stones sitting over the forms where we finished the first corner to 4 feet tall.</div>
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The first couple of forms set up for the third lift</div>
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The inside of the house set up for the third lift. You can see the open front forms here.</div>
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Our amazing friend, Doug Dubois, came out to help us get to 6 feet tall!</div>
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Jeremy carefully lays out every stone on the ground before it goes in the wall. We call it the county's biggest game of tetris.</div>
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Forms up for the 4th lift</div>
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We put steel headers over every door and window to help support the stonework. Here they are primed and ready.</div>
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Setting forms for the 5th lift.</div>
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Inside of the house at 10 feet tall. You can see the stones sticking up where we've already filled the forms for this lift.</div>
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Moving forms up for the 6th lift!</div>
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Another amazing friend, Matt Jolley, came out to help us get the first wall to 12 feet tall.</div>
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We were profoundly fortunate to have scaffolding loaned to us first by a neighbor and then by Jeremy's grandparents. I hate to think how much harder it would have been without the platforms! We currently have use of both sets and that is making the work go well, although it still gets harder the higher we go. We currently have about half of the wall up to 12 feet tall and we hope to get the rest of it done this weekend. Then we can start setting up for the last full lift! Keep your fingers crossed for us!</div>
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After you have the forms braced and tied together, you have to put a layer of sand along the front of the wall to keep the concrete from flowing all the way to the rock face. This makes pointing much easier later. <br />
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Then you fill the bottom up to the level of the sand with concrete. This is the mortar bed that the rocks will sit on. The first line of rocks is next. Once they're in place, we go back along the wall and put sand in between them and along the face above them so the concrete stays back and doesn't flow over the face of the stones.<br />
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With the sand in place, we fill up the form with concrete to the height of the rocks plus the sand on top. This step takes a lot of concrete! Thankfully, the kids have gotten really good at mixing concrete.<br />
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Then you continue with that pattern - sand, concrete, stone, sand concrete, stone - until the form is full! The concrete needs to set for 24 hours before you can take the forms off and look at your hard work. We did that today and this is what it looks like!<br />
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We learned a lot from this first lift. We didn't put sand between all the rocks at first and got too much concrete around the faces. We also learned a lot about placing wire ties in the wall so that they don't interfere with the rocks. We had to cut several of our initial wire ties because they were in the way of the stone work. Bit by bit, we get better. <br />
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On the positive side, we discovered that the 4 of us can do about half a lift in a day of work. That's not too bad! <br />
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As some of you may know, we have been working on the house for going on 3 years now. One of the many challenges we faced once we got all the timbers to Kansas was how to protect them from the weather while we worked on them. Naturally, last summer was one of the wettest we've seen which means having to move and re-level every beam every time Jeremy wanted to work on it. Progress was exceedingly slow and we clearly needed a better solution. <br />
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Luckily, we have an extra hoop house laying around! We put up about half of the 30'x96' hoop house over the slab and covered it with an old piece of plastic from our other hoop house. This gave a sheltered place for Jeremy to work where the beams could stay out as long as he needed them to. Progress accelerated dramatically! <br />
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Over the course of the fall, winter and into the early spring, Jeremy completed all the beams for the house, an addition and a barn! Go Jeremy! Here are a few of the pictures we took along the way.<br />
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Part of the second floor test fit before sanding</div>
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Sanding the floor joists</div>
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Tools of the trade! Wooden mallet and hearing protection.</div>
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One of the rafter beams assembled with collar tie</div>
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Jeremy admiring his handiwork in the hoop house</div>
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Once the joinery was done, we had to get ready to actually build the house, so the hoops had to come back down. That took a couple of days to do. <br />
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First, we pulled the plastic off and folded it up</div>
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Then we started taking apart the poles</div>
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Then everything gets loaded on the trailer</div>
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And then it gets unloaded in a new place</div>
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And here it will rest until we need it again!</div>
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Then we had to move all the beams off the slab so that we could start setting up concrete forms. Thank goodness for good friends! We managed to move them all in a day and get them stacked up by type near the building site. I can't wait until we're digging them back out to put in the house!<br />
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Started with piles on the slab</div>
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Then the piles moved here!</div>
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And every one was picked up by hand.</div>
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And moved, stacked, stickered and leveled.</div>
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The moving crew (minus me - I took the picture)!</div>
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Then we were ready to start building door and window bucks and setting up forms. I'll save that for a different post. </div>
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