Water water everywhere: Part 2 — Softening the Water
Because our water comes from a hole in the ground, it is very hard. Specifically our calcium hardness rating on the...
Month: April 2016
Preparedness: We now have it.
Back when we lived in San Francisco we had a small collection of items put together as our "just in...
Water water everywhere: Part 1–The Well
One of the critical inspections we had done prior to buying Purgatory was a test of the well. We're up...
Revisiting first impressions: Part 2 — Back Exterior
Here are the back exterior before and now shots. Sports Court Pool from East Pool from West Great Room Exterior Observation...
Revisiting first impressions: Part 1 — Front Exterior
As part of the anniversary of us finding Purgatory, I've taken new photos of things here almost matching the view...
The small pile of random junk
Our Nearest Neighbor told me a while back that when the POs were getting ready to move out they had a...
So Many Birds
One fun things about Purgatory is that we have a lot of wild birds. And I mean a lot. So far...
Survey Says….
As part of the great wall project we had geologists on the land a few weeks back to complete soil...
Living with two large parrots means….
Living in a house with no attic but instead transom windows throughout means sometimes this happens. Living in a house...
The state of our borders: Part 3–Fences
One day early in March we took a drive down the low row to the bottom end of the property....
The state of our borders: Part 2 –the Weeds
Continuing on from the last post: we have a lot of weeds and grass on the land. Most of the...
The state of our borders: Part 1–Horse Residue
As we've said numerous times in numerous posts that the Previous Owners took little care of the property. Another example...
Exactly….
one year ago I sent this text to Agent Smith. And after a brief discussion I included this in an...