Goin's on around here
Well the deal was finalized and the property adjacent to mine my brother had owned, is now owned by someone else. Nice young couple that live in Indiana. They're only going to be here on week-ends for a long time but his dad lives just a mile or so down the road from us. The young fellow that bought the place stops to chat each time he's here, and today he gave me a key to the house in case I have to get inside for anything. I've been keeping an eye on the place for him.
That means we no longer need the tractor for bush hogging around here since all the meadow area now has a new owner (first thing the new owner did was bush hog it last Saturday). My brother put the tractor, bush hog, a seven foot finish mower and the box grader up for sale. The tractor and box grader haven't sold yet so I've been using it to smooth out the areas on my daughters property where they ditched for the water line and septic system. We had all that rain after they'd finished with the ditching so it settled the dirt quite well. However there are places it left craters and others where the dirt is still piled up. Lots of work for muscle and shovel but pretty easy with the tractor. Fits in with my old motto: "Never use muscle for a job you can get gasoline or electricity to do for you".
Finished painting the windmill today and set it back up. The wind had knocked it over and busted several blades loose. This time I took treated lumber and built a platform for it to attach to. I tapered the corners of the platform at the same angle as the taper on the windmill, about eighty pounds of lumber, then set each of the four corner posts in eighty pounds of concrete in four holes. If the wind blows it over now with four hundred pounds of base, that will be the least of my worries. It would take the house first.
I'm going to have to go back to work. This retirement is killing me.
That means we no longer need the tractor for bush hogging around here since all the meadow area now has a new owner (first thing the new owner did was bush hog it last Saturday). My brother put the tractor, bush hog, a seven foot finish mower and the box grader up for sale. The tractor and box grader haven't sold yet so I've been using it to smooth out the areas on my daughters property where they ditched for the water line and septic system. We had all that rain after they'd finished with the ditching so it settled the dirt quite well. However there are places it left craters and others where the dirt is still piled up. Lots of work for muscle and shovel but pretty easy with the tractor. Fits in with my old motto: "Never use muscle for a job you can get gasoline or electricity to do for you".
Finished painting the windmill today and set it back up. The wind had knocked it over and busted several blades loose. This time I took treated lumber and built a platform for it to attach to. I tapered the corners of the platform at the same angle as the taper on the windmill, about eighty pounds of lumber, then set each of the four corner posts in eighty pounds of concrete in four holes. If the wind blows it over now with four hundred pounds of base, that will be the least of my worries. It would take the house first.
I'm going to have to go back to work. This retirement is killing me.
posted by Fish at 7:53 PM
4 Comments:
When my hubby retired from Firefighting... he started a new career as a teacher.
It's killin' him, too.
Aw darnit, Fish, you didn't get to enjoy Ernesto like those of us over here on the east side did (and still are!).
Well, I don't know where that comment came from, but it wasn't what I typed just a moment ago...
blogger.com, yep, it's free and you get what you pay for, I reckon.
Sounds to me like you are working harder than you worked when you worked for a living!
I hope when you are done with that windmill you'll post a picture of it. :)
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