Why excavator?
Because dig. Because push or drag. Because lift and carry. Just don’t ask too many questions about how floppy everything is. You buy an ex-rental,…
Author: Agent Smith
Improved Weed Death
Last year (see earlier posts), we reacted much too slowly to the weed problem, and found ourselves facing well-established thistles and mustard thickets well over…
Fire in the hole
Embedded in the floor of the great room (and outside it, believe it or not) are a plethora of these Steel City (now Thomas &…
Gate power
(Sorry, no visuals for this post; too frustrated & racing to beat the rain.) Purgatory has a gate–actually a pair of swinging metal gates hung…
New aerial shots (November 2016)
Finally got a calm, clear-ish day to take some new aerial shots. It’s been a couple of weeks since the rain started, so the greening…
Weeds: We have them.
One of the side effects of the recent rain has been an explosion of growth, from barren, horse-trampled, crumbling hillsides to…I have no idea what,…
Dog House Down
One of the worst of the structural nuisances was the old dog shelter. Structurally unsound and downright dangerous, it needed to go. A great opportunity…
Big green monster
New tank! Also, a sufficient crane.
Tank goodness
Part of the process appears to have involved gutting the old tank like a Tauntaun, leaving behind a pile of rusty innards. Sadly no snowspeeder…
A man’s got to know his trucks’ limitations.
Having a handle on the various uses of the apostrophe doesn’t hurt either. With the MiniTruck (Truckster/Truckette/Truckling…we need a name for this thing) acquired, it…
Mister Gorbachev…
We have something of a wall problem. Or a lack of wall problem, depending on where you stand. On the west side, there’s an old…