hi I'm Mike emails fill my inbox constantly and today we take one of
those emails and take a look at the big projects those that you've never even
seen and probably need a board of their own on the project list on our wyoming
life
welcome back to our wyoming life it's Tuesday and that means it's time to take
a look at the project list all the things that need done around here
most of them smaller projects one day or less but a recent email got me thinking
about the bigger picture it actually works out well as Lincoln has surgery
tomorrow Wednesday and we're getting ready to head down to Casper for that
here in just a few this gives me a chance to give you a little tour of the
bigger jobs that we have going on around here
like I said I got an email from a subscriber the other day and I'd
actually like to read it to you because I don't want to screw it up so this is
from Randy who is just outside of Cleveland Ohio he writes Mike and Aaron
I love watching the project list it always amazes me all the things that
need done there I was wondering if you had any bigger big winter projects I've
noticed the project list tends to be smaller stuff and I was wondering if you
had any big things going on maybe something that we've never seen before
maybe you can get somebody to help with them thank you and I hope to see you at
the ranch roundup and that's from Randy the ranch roundup we'll talk about that
a little bit later but to answer your question yes Randy we do have big
projects going on around here that have never made it to the project list mostly
because they're ongoing and involve a bunch of different parts today I figured
I'd take you through those projects show you where we're at and where we hope to
end up with them we're going to start over at our garage for an easy one
we built this garage as an add-on to the house in fact if you go back and look at
some of our earliest videos it's not even here well now it is aaron has
always wanted somewhere to park for uconn out of the weather and it's almost
completely done almost the last step as with so many projects ends up being the
one that takes the longest for this project we actually aren't going to
finish the interior of the garage this project is all about insulation I've got
it sitting over here just waiting to go up on the walls and it's pretty easy to
do it just takes time I tend to work on it a little bit by a little bit
eventually it'll get done and that's pretty simple one but the next stop
we're gonna head into the house and run up to the attic what has been storage
for the past five years is now gonna become a office space for the last two
years that we've been doing this our wyoming life thing we've been working
out of a corner of our bedroom I tend to stay up late at night editing I take my
phone calls there i package stuff to go out to patreon supporters and recently
we've been packaging beef jerky to send out of there as well now it's time to
actually dedicate a space to our wyoming life and actually that's a good thing
getting a little separation work at home and yes maybe even a little peace and
quiet after cleaning up an end of an attic we've been in the process of
framing putting up drywall and eventually we're going to be adding some
carpet in here and it'll hopefully be able to house an editing area as well as
a new place to come up and do our live streams we have ourselves a little couch
on the way and it's going to be a nice dedicated space to do that
not that doing it in our family room has been bad but cleaning up setting up
equipment then of course the teardown process hopefully we'll be done with all
that as we can just set up stuff and leave it up here our next stop is what
has been actually the biggest project on the ranch and one that you've never seen
before well maybe you have from the outside but
today we're going to go in and take a look around
the original farmhouse on the ranch and what we have going on in there this
house is one of the original houses on the ranch the first part of it was built
in the 1920s or 1930s and it was basically just a Shack over the years
it's been added on to many times including a bathroom which it didn't
have a dining room and a living room the garage was added on at some point and
even though all these add-ons are nice they are kind of a pain when it comes to
doing anything with the house itself let's go on inside and take a look for
the past 10 years there were renters living here and what we left they
thought we found that somebody had left a leak in the basement go a few inches
of water stood down there and caused us to actually have to get the entire
basement down to the studs we had to have mold
recovery and prevention team come on in here and clean up the whole place sand
down all the suds the studs and the wood man what a pain an empty house is pretty
much just a waste so we've been working on remodeling this entire house to bring
it into this century we've had a new heating system installed the old one was
just a single propane heater located out in the dining room we tore out all the
flooring upstairs replaced it with a wood composite flooring and remodeled
the bathroom adding a new bath shower which I actually had to cut a hole in
the wall in the garage to get it into the bathroom
there's still plenty more to be done in here and I still need to finish the
kitchen new appliances are going in and I'm gonna replace this countertop with
something a little less orange when I'm done what are we gonna do with it
honestly well that kind of comes down to you we could rent it out again but I'm
not good at dealing with renters but there is one option that might work and
that's turning it into an Airbnb we already have some furniture that we
could get in here and basically rent it out by the night as an alternative to a
hotel room completely furnished it's an option but one that could bite us in the
butt too so some decisions do have to be made here we'll see first I got to get
it done a lot of the work in here actually takes place at night or later
on in the day but it is coming together just not as fast as I would like but
that's okay too as you can see there's never really a lacking of stuff to do
from the project list to stuff that's too big to even fit on there there's
always things happening around here some I never would have expected and some
that are a direct result of what we're doing here on YouTube and other social
media this whole project has turned itself into a full-time job and one that
pays part-time wages but that's okay we're in it for the long game and we're
really here to help people more than help ourselves yes we want to keep the
ranch going but I guess having that's kind of like having the foundation to do
something bigger and better erin has dreams of a low income food hub and I
really do enjoy showing people the importance of ranching and this life I
guess and what it really can be a few of the big jobs here that we're working on
tend to lend right into those values it's not rocket surgery being able to do
these kind of things we can't be afraid to take chances to grow and to learn now
if you remember back Randy actually mentioned in his email that he was gonna
be here for the ranch roundup and you may have asked yourself well what the
heck is that and I promised that I would tell you the ranch roundup is coming up
here on August 24th 2019 we're offering the chance for a limited
number of subscribers to actually come by the ranch buy tickets come by the
ranch and hang out for the day I think we have about a hundred tickets left
they start at $25 the chit kids tickets are ten bucks I do believe and you can
find those on our website wway oming live.com just click on events
up there on the top the plan is that it's gonna be a chance for us to meet
you and subscribers to meet each other and we're really gathering for a day of
just fun and excitement hang out with us we have the chance to
be you can actually have the chance to be a part of a live audience during a
special livestream and of course meet Aaron and the family we're planning to
have ranch tours games a band and a special farm-to-table dinner for all of
us here sourced right from the ranch I can't wait to meet you if you're coming
and if you already have your tickets thank you very much and I'll see you
soon that's it for today we have to take off
we have a two hour drive down to Casper Lincoln has some pre-surgery stuff to go
through he's actually having oral surgery so we'll be there overnight the
kids and Grammy are staying here and taking care of the ranch Gary's coming
up to take a look at things so everything is taken care of here and
it's gonna get dark here at 5:00 here pretty quick so we got to hit the road
wish Lincoln luck tomorrow and please subscribe and we'll check back in with
these projects real soon come hang out with us on Thursday for our live stream
at 7 p.m. we will talk about how Lincoln's doing and everything else
that's going on around here but until I see you then
have a great week and thanks for joining us in our Wyoming life