Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

Got enough juice to start screws, so door panel is now glued and screwed....with the ratchet screw driver. Hopefully tomorrow night will have enough juice to predrill for the hatch frame and braces. Planning on ratchet screwing 14 5-inch screws.....sigh. a 1 day assembly, 4 day polyurethane process is going to take at least a couple of weeks.

Oh wow that is a lot of screws to put in basically by hand! Won’t the drill hold a charge anymore?


Ooooo painting ugh don’t like painting - have fun!

 

[Ponypoor]

This boy was so smart, you could see the wheels turning in his head...too smart...lol

I've had 2 horses in my lifetime. I feel so blessed to have had that opportunity. I love them and miss having them, but I don't think we'll ever have another.

Yours sound so sweet. Enjoy them!

When these two are gone I won’t have any more.
Too expensive for Veterinary care and farrier, feed, bedding… try to get hay in was horrid this year. I am too old now.

 

[rural mouse]

I'm sorry. I hate when a project goes on and on. Of course around here, the projects never end...lol
I can't wait to see the finished product.

This runs in the family. When I was in college, my parents lived at 6000+ feet elevation. The electrical box for the well died new year's day. We spent the day trying to get into extremely tight quarters to replace something in it. ....

We had running water again for 1 (one) day. The submersible pump died. 80 foot deep well, pump is on the end of 60 feet of 1 inch diameter pipe, the top of which is 7 feet down because the water line had to be that deep so it didn't freeze. JANUARY, remember?

Well, my dad and my brother are out working on hauling it up....and they drop it.....all the way to the bottom. I have no idea what they did to go fishing for it, but they BUILT an oversized saw horse sort of thing secure everything so they didn't drop it again after the 2nd drop. They also had a right angle treble hook of little pipe pieces rigged to hook the pipes inside the well casing. While doing this, they broke the pit less connector (connects the vertical pipe to the pipe going to the house through the well casing). When dad laid the piece on the counter at the hardware store, the clerk said he hadn't seen one of those in about 20 years. ...

Next process (brother's spring term at college started so I'm drafted). Dad is digging a hole down the OUTSIDE of the well casing (4 feet of snow + 7 feet of dirt, much of it frozen) with a pick and a shovel to replace the other half of the pit less connector.....

Finally get to the point of reassembly. 4 foot pump, 3 sections of 20 foot pipe, plus a 10 footer to get the connector down where it needed to be. All day, tips warmed up just enough for snow to be melting and running down the pipe as we're muscling it back down (readjusting the chain connecting it to the saw horse thing)....sun heading towards gone and temp going with it. Our soggy gloves were starting to freeze to the pipe and Dad says, "Let's come out in the morning to get that lined up (the connector) and finish the job."

"Forget that! I'm having a hot bath tonight! I ain't comin' back out tomorrow!"

We got it reconnected. Had dinner in town when went to pick up rest of the family from work/school. Finally, home. My hot bath!

@&$;%&#*#($;%;$&

We forgot to turn the water heater back on!

In total, we had 9 days with no running water....in the dead of winter.

Murphy runs amuck in building projects, especially when they're some sort of repair job.

Murphy BE GONE tax

broody Focus brushed against me....thanks for the babies?

 

[rural mouse]

I think you need to tell those girls some scary boogeyman stories. Then they'll WANT to go to roost!

He could play hawk and owl sounds....

 

[Ponypoor]

This runs in the family. When I was in college, my parents lived at 6000+ feet elevation. The electrical box for the well died new year's day. We spent the day trying to get into extremely tight quarters to replace something in it. ....

We had running water again for 1 (one) day. The submersible pump died. 80 foot deep well, pump is on the end of 60 feet of 1 inch diameter pipe, the top of which is 7 feet down because the water line had to be that deep so it didn't freeze. JANUARY, remember?

Well, my dad and my brother are out working on hauling it up....and they drop it.....all the way to the bottom. I have no idea what they did to go fishing for it, but they BUILT an oversized saw horse sort of thing secure everything so they didn't drop it again after the 2nd drop. They also had a right angle treble hook of little pipe pieces rigged to hook the pipes inside the well casing. While doing this, they broke the pit less connector (connects the vertical pipe to the pipe going to the house through the well casing). When dad laid the piece on the counter at the hardware store, the clerk said he hadn't seen one of those in about 20 years. ...

Next process (brother's spring term at college started so I'm drafted). Dad is digging a hole down the OUTSIDE of the well casing (4 feet of snow + 7 feet of dirt, much of it frozen) with a pick and a shovel to replace the other half of the pit less connector.....

Finally get to the point of reassembly. 4 foot pump, 3 sections of 20 foot pipe, plus a 10 footer to get the connector down where it needed to be. All day, tips warmed up just enough for snow to be melting and running down the pipe as we're muscling it back down (readjusting the chain connecting it to the saw horse thing)....sun heading towards gone and temp going with it. Our soggy gloves were starting to freeze to the pipe and Dad says, "Let's come out in the morning to get that lined up (the connector) and finish the job."

"Forget that! I'm having a hot bath tonight! I ain't comin' back out tomorrow!"

We got it reconnected. Had dinner in town when went to pick up rest of the family from work/school. Finally, home. My hot bath!

@&$;%&#*#($;%;$&

We forgot to turn the water heater back on!

In total, we had 9 days with no running water....in the dead of winter.

Murphy runs amuck in building projects, especially when they're some sort of repair job.

Murphy BE GONE tax
View attachment 4184194broody Focus brushed against me....thanks for the babies?

Sounds like a regular day here also hahaha.

No boys my dad had my sister and I help him fix and build things. Good times, even if there was a lot of swearing involved

 

[drstratton]

This runs in the family. When I was in college, my parents lived at 6000+ feet elevation. The electrical box for the well died new year's day. We spent the day trying to get into extremely tight quarters to replace something in it. ....

We had running water again for 1 (one) day. The submersible pump died. 80 foot deep well, pump is on the end of 60 feet of 1 inch diameter pipe, the top of which is 7 feet down because the water line had to be that deep so it didn't freeze. JANUARY, remember?

Well, my dad and my brother are out working on hauling it up....and they drop it.....all the way to the bottom. I have no idea what they did to go fishing for it, but they BUILT an oversized saw horse sort of thing secure everything so they didn't drop it again after the 2nd drop. They also had a right angle treble hook of little pipe pieces rigged to hook the pipes inside the well casing. While doing this, they broke the pit less connector (connects the vertical pipe to the pipe going to the house through the well casing). When dad laid the piece on the counter at the hardware store, the clerk said he hadn't seen one of those in about 20 years. ...

Next process (brother's spring term at college started so I'm drafted). Dad is digging a hole down the OUTSIDE of the well casing (4 feet of snow + 7 feet of dirt, much of it frozen) with a pick and a shovel to replace the other half of the pit less connector.....

Finally get to the point of reassembly. 4 foot pump, 3 sections of 20 foot pipe, plus a 10 footer to get the connector down where it needed to be. All day, tips warmed up just enough for snow to be melting and running down the pipe as we're muscling it back down (readjusting the chain connecting it to the saw horse thing)....sun heading towards gone and temp going with it. Our soggy gloves were starting to freeze to the pipe and Dad says, "Let's come out in the morning to get that lined up (the connector) and finish the job."

"Forget that! I'm having a hot bath tonight! I ain't comin' back out tomorrow!"

We got it reconnected. Had dinner in town when went to pick up rest of the family from work/school. Finally, home. My hot bath!

@&$;%&#*#($;%;$&

We forgot to turn the water heater back on!

In total, we had 9 days with no running water....in the dead of winter.

Murphy runs amuck in building projects, especially when they're some sort of repair job.

Murphy BE GONE tax
View attachment 4184194broody Focus brushed against me....thanks for the babies?

Don't know whether to laugh or cry at all of that... definitely Murphys law. We are homesteaders, from the ground up, cleared our land by hand. Had to hire for boulder removal, didn't have a tractor back then. 3 years for my husband and I to build our house. We don't like having others work on our place, they never do it to our standards, my husband does amazing work. Been without water, but so thankful that our well is not 6,000 feet deep. What a nightmare, so sorry you didn't get your hot bath. I would have cried.

 

[rural mouse]

Oh wow that is a lot of screws to put in basically by hand! Won’t the drill hold a charge anymore?


Ooooo painting ugh don’t like painting - have fun!

That's why I'm going to use the ratchet screw driver. If the other battery holds for pre-drilling the holes, good enough. If it holds longer, good.

I don't know how old the batteries are, nor do I know where we got the thing so replacing them will be Amazon. I can probably get this done before new batteries would arrive.....and Murphy would make certain the batteries wouldn't fit the drill in spite of matching the numbers... I'm not giving Murphy more opportunities.

And I'm going to try the drill 1 more time tonight. Maybe get the hatch frame done.

 

[rural mouse]

Don't know whether to laugh or cry at all of that... definitely Murphys law. We are homesteaders, from the ground up, cleared our land by hand. Had to hire for boulder removal, didn't have a tractor back then. 3 years for my husband and I to build our house. We don't like having others work on our place, they never do it to our standards, my husband does amazing work. Been without water, but so thankful that our well is not 6,000 feet deep. What a nightmare, so sorry you didn't get your hot bath. I would have cried.

Well was only 80 feet. House sat at 6000+ altitude. I DID get my hot bath. I just had to wait until the water heater had warmed up the water....another hour....and I nearly cried when the water first came out cold.

2 bathing broodies

 

[rural mouse]

Have cross braces in place....well, all but 1. And the hatch vertical. The 1 is about 3/16ths of an inch too long. Sand it down....the 1 piece of sandpaper I can find has now been used to useless. I need to get more sandpaper tomorrow. No screws/drilling done. Murphy again.

I swear I will NOT curse a rooster with the name Murphy.

 

[drstratton]

Have cross braces in place....well, all but 1. And the hatch vertical. The 1 is about 3/16ths of an inch too long. Sand it down....the 1 piece of sandpaper I can find has now been used to useless. I need to get more sandpaper tomorrow. No screws/drilling done. Murphy again.

I swear I will NOT curse a rooster with the name Murphy.
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