The Last Remnants.
When the garage was erected in the 1970s, the Doc hung some cabinetry along the south side and back east walls. The build quality by…
Tag: Trash
Another Trashy Post
We have had a large number of dumpsters brought up here to take away large quantities of garbage. When we first moved in, the dumpsters…
Composting
When we moved in, we started composting our kitchen scraps. While we had a garbage disposal in the kitchen sink, we soon learned to not…
Another Fun Tale
This past Boxing Day (the day after Christmas), I, Agent Smith, and a few intrepid residents managed to make the old burned out VW “magically”…
More Dumpster Tails
Since moving here we have filled roughly two dozen dumpsters. Our first one was a big 40 cu yd, but getting those up the mountain…
People are Annoying
As mentioned before, our road is a private road. That means no city, county or state authority oversees management of said road. (There is actually…
Along Come Spiders
We tend to have a live-and-let-live mentality at the ranch. This even carries over to some of our more daunting neighbors, like this beautiful Black…
More Expanded Impact
It’s been over a year since we organized a neighborhood cleanup effort to remove a bunch of garbage illegally dumped on the side of the…
Summer Cleanup
In July of last year, we completed the last major cleanup event at Purgatory. We got in another two dumpsters and piled yet more debris…
Dead Cows
We really can’t make this sort of stuff up. Two nights ago, some super rude person drove up our road and dumped a dead cow.…
Summer Clean Up, Part 2
While we were busy with the boards, Agent Smith used Bambi to excavate debris buried beneath wood chips and other debris. While the wood chips…
Summer Clean Up, Part 1
We spent a few weekends this summer doing yet more clean up–would you believe there was even more random garbage scattered about by the previous…
Expanding Our Impact
SaveSaveSaveSaveSaveIllegal dumping is an issue here. A lot of rude people from the flatter areas drive up here late at night to dump their rubbish. The…
How do you solve a problem like manure?
The neighbors on the other side of our eastern fenceline rent out most of their eleven or so acres they own to a guy who has…
Other people’s trash is OUR trash
One of the unfortunate aspects of living outside the normal bounds of civilization is that some rather stupid and inconsiderate people drive up our roads…
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 garage/yard sale to lighten their…
One stall at a time
People that read the posts here know that we have a very large barn on the property. We found out from the Doc (the guy that had…
So many wood chips
The trash pile is gone, but a small pile of random garbage the previous owners had chucked into that space remained (first pic below). I…
Stega cleans up
Last week when the crew was working on the giant garbage pile, I took the mini truck around to the north pasture area and pulled…
The Trash Heap
One of the less-than-lovely things the previous owners did while living here is never disposing of things properly–namely yard waste, tractor tires, bits of concrete, old…
A muddy start…
The grinders arrived this morning! We had serious rain last Monday and then again yesterday, which meant getting this new project underway took a bit…
Final Kennel Details
On Sunday, the Smith boys finished up the dog kennel by placing some long boards to secure the gravel bed. Below are the before shots,…
Debris Removal Week
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…
Random Pics that Never Got Posted
While doing a bit of admin work, I came across a bunch of pics highlighting past projects and things that, for various reasons, never made…
The end of the little stable
Another of the eyesores on the property was a small three-sided stable built on the south side of the property. It too dates back to…
A barn full of stuff.
Monday, while the Smith boys were tearing down the small horse shelter, I did a little barn exploration. The property has a six-stable, two-room roofed…
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…
Bye bye, old thing
One of the eyesores on the property was an old kid’s playground the previous owners had for their daughter. It hadn’t been used in probably…
Bye bye, ugly deck
I’m doing a very happy dance as one of the giant projects I’ve been struggling with since we took possession is finally on track and…
Debris and Horse Poop
Yesterday was a long day in San Jose. As we waited for a contractor, Agent Smith and I explored and documented new territory. Keep in…