oh okay it's been a busy few days as you can see i'm not at the farm at the lake house
a little breezy today but it's a different color it's taken four and a half five days
but we got it got her done so what do you think it's a dark locust that is the technical term
we stripped as much paint off so we could prepped it as much as we could got all the paint and
sherman williams emerald is the quality so it's like a pretty good paint pretty expensive paint
but yes it looks so much better so next time i come no work i'll play
i hope oh yeah i don't think i've shown this yet over here if you look down here
took care of that old retaining wall that was pretty much non-existent and replaced it with
a lot of rock i got to put pavers in here it's not nice right now but very cheap
a lot of field rock a lot of rock that was here holding the bank back looks really good
and it was really cheap just again a little bit of a back breaking labor but we got her done
so i'm going back home till next time but a little snippet of the lake house
as you can see it's uh always evolving in a good way okay see you guys in a minute
forgot to mention too if you guys are interested you can book this place out it is available on
airbnb and vrbo uh but it does book out quick like so start thinking about the year in advance
if you're interested because this year's slammed so next year there's a bunch of openings available
doc's waiting for you a bunch of canoes kayaks and a couple floaty ducks just for you scope dad's
staircase i want to show you one more thing i know i just can't stop let's go show you one more thing
so this house has the original siding on it's like a 45 year old home
or more and it you can see the texture the wood is starting to disintegrate it needed a
paint job about 15 years ago and it shows and we tried to take off as much paint as we could but
i sprayed this like four times i mean i just coated it with paint i'm hoping this will be
the last paint job before all of a sudden it's removed because i think the next time
around new siding new windows but let's just pretend that that's 15 years out 20 years out
we'll get there okay now we make our beautiful drive back home through glacier park
worth going to okay well i'm at the site uh what i have going on here is uh
got a reservoir actually it's got dry water in it really dry not even hard or soft but back in 2019
this is very old old reservoir dam we had about three inches of rain and it breached it um and we
cut a gully in it so i got to fill my breach i've got a couple pieces of equipment here
one reason why it breached is of course this dam gradually through the years settled after they
built it but the spillway that they have to go around the dam so that it won't breach the top
is actually higher than the dam so i'll need to cut it down a little bit
i'm not going to just do a whole lot of revamping of this dam but i want to fill this in
and of course we're filling with loose dirt so i've got to try to find a way of packing it um so
what i got going on here as i i'm going to scrape these weeds away because i don't want organic
matter in there and then then i'm gonna dump some dirt in here then take the backhoe and the bucket
and place it and uh tamp it down and then do it again and finally get some firm soil back in here
um and then i'm gonna dig out there's an old old dam just behind this one uh just
a little berm across there when they first i guess built it and then they built this one
years later i don't know who built it because we acquired this land in the uh 1990s and well
we didn't actually acquire we were renting it and then we bought it back in 2010 um so
but i like this reservoir here it's uh it's got pretty good draws it does have water most
all the years and it's just a great place for livestock uh well wild livestock antelope deer
um and then also ducks and geese uh when they come through they like to stop here so uh we've been
short of rain for about two years now and uh they finally dried up and this is the time to do it
what's grandpa doing um i don't know
using a tractor using a tractor what's he doing with the tractor i don't know
why am i doing it way out here because i can and when you get bigger you can play in the dirt too
the bin guys are here they're gonna start uh putting this bin together and raise it up and
secure it and it's gonna be looking good anyways last night it rained about three tenths
so it's a little muddy right here but we will take any moisture we can get because it is dry
and it's a very much needed little bit of moisture but that being said let's watch these guys uh
put this bin together because it's kind of a fun process it really is
so
today is slightly busy we're having that 3609 west steel bin and they're putting that together
they're raising it up i've got my foundation for my footers at my house they're actually being
done right now so i'm jumping from there to there and funny how it worked out a few days ago
we were talking about like man well actually about a week ago we're like we really should
get these bins these hopper bins that are right here really need to get them painted and as a
special type of paint that they spray on the the bins that's kind of like a asphalt paint and it
protects it from rust and keeps them a lot longer well a guy showed up not too long ago right after
we were kind of talking about he's like hey i do these uh i paint bins and stuff we're like
really and come to find out his dad actually came out to our farm years ago and painted some of our
bins so we asked him like hey um you want to do these he's like absolutely so he's painting
they're assembling and they're getting forms up so i'm running all around and then nick's
spraying and my dad's kind of making sure that uh he's got water and chemical and
he's around doing other stuff too so it's a little busy but things are happening it's crazy
that's pretty sweet his son is uh painting he's learning and helping
that's the key he's helping but anyways they're gonna paint all these suckers
they're gonna be really nice and pretty and then after that we're planning on having that quonset
over there shot as well and the reason for is we put fertilizer in those smooth wall bins over
there and uh with the fertilizer and steel that doesn't really go very well together so if we
coat the building it'll stop the rust that might occur which there's a slight bit on the sheets
and uh yeah anyways looking good i'll show you when it's finished it's even better
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