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Thank you all! Still have a lot to do, but ready to pause on things for a bit and work on other projects.
Jim DeLaney said:
Love it! When can I visit? :ROFLMAO:
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When my wife says that it is "done". ;) :rofl: Her definition of that and mine are much different.

Seriously though it will be open to those that want to visit, once she gives the OK. We're about an hour from Springfield and Grizzly, and hour and a half from Branson, and a couple from Jay and Frank. At some point I hope to spend more time getting things on the farm in order to have events and some activities to do here.
 
Darren Wright said:
At some point I hope to spend more time getting things on the farm in order to have events and some activities to do here.
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Ha! I remember Carol's events, but most people would call them work parties. I think Toni, Larry, Tom and I were maybe there at her place in Strawberry, AZ about 10 minutes before she put us to work. I do miss her.
 
Decided to put together base cabinet boxes today. On each end will be a set of 4 drawers each, a door on the blind corner cabinet, and doors under the sink, which will be a large single bowl. The concrete dropped off a good 1/4" to 3/8" from the walls, went through about 1 1/2 packs of shims to level and plumb things out.
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I'll work on the face frames tomorrow night. These will be painted, but undecided on door/drawer style, or if I'm doing inset or overlay, but most likely a shaker look. Just doing formica counter tops from the borg.
 
Jonathan Shively said:
Darren, you are missing a golden opportunity here. Pick those wanting to visit and make it a working visit. Pick them based on the skill set you need at the present moment and get twice as much done!!
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I love that idea...who wants to come stand in for me?
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Darren Wright said:
Face frames installed, may have our first guests this weekend. May put down some temporary tops plywood tops if I don't get to the borg by then.
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Funny situation... About fifteen years ago I made some cabinets for my sister. As a "temporary measure' I made counter tops from MDF, edged in Oak and heavily saturated with Arm-R-Seal, to last until they could have granite ones made. Now, fifteen years later, the MDF counters are still there. My BIL even revarnished them last Summer. It's not a budgetary thing, they just think the varnished MDF looks "Leather-Like."
 
Well first guest stay was almost 100%. The toilet foiled the fun. Saturday afternoon I realized there was water running across the driveway. Upon inspection it was coming from the septic tank lid. I went up to check and one of the toilet flaps wasn't sealing down and the toilet was just running (overnight). :bang: Luckily it didn't backup and flood out onto the floor. I still need to install the extension ring on the tank, so I hadn't really sealed the lid well.

Turns out the float on the flap's chain was installed backwards or too close to the flap and holding up the flap when not fully flushed. I moved it up a couple of inches where it would be if the chain was reversed and it worked just fine. So luckily I had dug a trench on the outlet side of the septic tank about 10' long and had already filled it half full with gravel. I simply just drilled a few holes in the cap and let the water flow out and soak down into the gravel, as it would if there were laterals installed. The trench kept up just fine with the half dozen flushes and couple of showers they took over the next two days. Trickle in, trickle out.

I'll pickup the pipe for the laterals this weekend and install those if weather cooperates to be ready for our next guests.
 
I finished up the septic this past weekend, sorry no pics, it was a crappy job though I assure you. ;)

We were trying to decide what to do for retaining walls. SWMBO does not like the castle stone blocks, which I had planned to use. After our last flood we've got a good supply of 4" - 12" sized stones available. We decided to go with gabion cages for retaining walls, which I may get some flag stone to cap them with, once filled. By far this is the cheapest solution, though I did order cages on amazon, so probably spending about double on them, but saving the labor.

These are about a 9 gauge wire, which for a single layer will hopefully be heavy enough.

I started assembling the end sections over lunch. They go together pretty quickly and I've got some hog rings and pliers to help secure the spirals until installed. I need to pickup some paver base to help build up a good foundation, but the ground here doesn't tend to settle if undisturbed, so may just use some sand from the field where needed.
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These will just be the parking area, about 30' of 20" x 20" overall, so will need to buy or make more for the hill side and a couple of retaining walls. I did buy a pack of the spirals to try and use with some other fence panels we have around and may stop by the farm store to see what they've got for sheep or smaller hog panels.
 
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