As mentioned numerous times, the POs did next to nothing in terms of taking care of the property, so we have been sorting out and addressing close to thirty years of neglect.
Case in point: all the stuff to right of the barn is total crap. Basically the POs used that paddock as a giant dump. Anything they couldn’t dispose of in their normal garbage, like old Christmas trees, tree limbs and lumber, got chucked over the fence. We want to get rid of it and all the crap they left behind the barn (although we will keep the chipper and old bathtubs).
Last week I had a dumpster delivered. I’m trying out Ecobox as they said they’d take the treated wood and railroad ties we need to get rid of. (Imagine that: 900 railroad ties floating around this property, and after 40 or 50 years, we need to dispose of a few.) So the dumpster arrived last Tuesday and we proceeded to fill it up.
We tried to be organized about putting stuff in. AS and his dad managed to fit in about 2/3 of the debris from the old stable. Then on Saturday, we got rid of the debris from the deck that once sat outside my office (the one built over the septic tank). We used a combination of the mini truck and the tractor (Dino).
Our supervisor, Happy, was back and just as dusty.
After all the old timber was loaded, we put in the old diving board and all the old wiring we ripped out back in July. Remember, the POs had a TV in every room, so there was coax spidering all over the exterior of the house.
Below is outside of my office. In the last pic Agent Smith was moving the last two bits of debris with the tractor–the Whale’s old engine and transmission.
Quite an improvement compared to the old deck and later the remains of said deck. Now it’s time to start planning a garden, one with a small aviary so that the boys can spend time outside while I can keep an eye on them.