Category: Exterior
Exterior Repairs Prior to…Gutters!
In January 2017, we had to address the fascia, as we knew when we bought the place there were pockets of dry rot. We wanted…
The North Garden Takes Shape
Once a few deliveries of topsoil arrived, I set about spreading the dirt with Giggles. Video of some of the work streamed live on Google.
Up in the Air (video)
Winter mornings at Purgatory often look and sound like this:
Gate Power (again)
As mentioned in past posts, the main gate at Purgatory has been problematic. Several years ago a tree fell and snapped the line feeding the…
Bathtub Gardening
Once the great cleanup was done and the bulk of the rubbish left by the previous owners removed from Purgatory, I went about collecting bathtubs.…
The Clouds and the Pool (video)
Back in the spring of 2017, we resurfaced the pool (you can read the first post in that saga here). Well, one of the video…
New Panoramas
Some panoramas taken in September 2017.
Resealing
While busy cleaning up the debris in July of last year, the driveway got resealed. This was a free one-off by the folks who paved…
June 2018 Aerial Shots
Below: not our animal pens, and since these were taken, the pens are almost all gone! Yay for having new neighbors!
Steeling Ourselves, Part 3 of 3
The new steel ladders turned out better than we anticipated. Here are some more pictures of them. As you can see they go up and over…
Steeling Ourselves, Part 2 of 3
It took the crew from F&F Steel three days to get the ladders installed. They started off by getting the new ladder for the great room…
Steeling Ourselves, Part 1 of 3
One of the more odd bits about the house is that two cubes are part of the residence: the great room, which measures approximately 26’x26’x22′;…
Our own little Pit of Sarlacc
When the house was first built, the doc used his giant tractor to cut earth from the bottom of the south pasture and move it…
The Tale of the Driveway Repaving, Part 2 of 3
So there we were, without water and with a dirt driveway. The crew returned with an excavator the next day and got busy. They dug…
The Tale of the Driveway Repaving, Part 1 of 3
After the Great Wall was completed, we turned our attention to the driveway. Having multiple large trucks running down it had pretty much trashed it.…
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…
Learning to work with Tony
Our new tractor arrived a while back and Agent Smith has slowly been getting the hang of things. Tony is much larger than little Dino,…
Burn, Baby, Burn
We have tumbleweeds here and the best way to manage them is to collect them all, smush them into a wire cage and then set…
All Hail!
One day this week we had lots of wind; another day we had ice and hail. It’s definitely never dull. Oh and yes, we’ve resumed…
A Windy Day
It’s been very windy here today. This video will give you an idea of the craziness.
The End of Dry Rot
As mentioned a while back, we worked with contractors to address the huge amount of dry rot on the exterior features of our house. First,…
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…
South Wall Videos Now Up
As we have mentioned/hinted in recent posts, we are well into the great wall of Purgatory project. As Agent Smith noted last year, we were starting…
Dry Rot Galore, Part 2
To keep our house from literally rotting away, I originally intended to have the awesome contractor who took care of the utility closet door work and…
Fun with Dry Rot, Step One: Identify the Problem
We knew when we bought the house that we had dry rot issues to address. Even through the fresh (but badly done) paint job the…
Panoramas
Extra post to start the week off. All of these were taken on March 3 and 4 of this year.