First, y'all gotta know that HHandbasket and I had a discussion about that propane tank, first considering plastering it with all the refrigerator magnets I've collected over the years..... then we got serious and I proposed the subject of painting something on it to Farmer Lew, because he's quite artistic. I DO have a plan for what I'd like painted on it. But it's a secret until it's completed.
Oh, Sweet Cheeks, those links to the painted tanks were simply amazing - thanks so much for posting them! Dale, D Fence Man, is indeed a cutie, but even IF he were available, or any of his rather nice crew, those would definitely be Mrs. Robinson events but without the glamour. Noop, it wouldn't be pretty.
Mwaaahaaaaahaaaa!
I keep having little verbal spasms about owning my very own gully. It makes the fence fellas laugh. "Not EVERYbody has a gully, that's for sure," they say. We were gathered up by the back fence line, on the side of the house, overlooking my gully. "Good place for a barbecue, down there in that meadow..." Oh, not only do I own a gully, but there's a small MEADOW at the bottom of it!
Here's a picture of a portion of my gully as it levels out into the meadow area, with John the contractor walking across it.
The fence fellas are fascinated by the idea of the whole garage being turned into a chicken coop. One of 'em has had chickens, or knows somebody with chickens, and is familiar with some chicken behavior. I told 'em all how the gully will be bug free very quickly after the flock is up here, and how some of my chickens are breeds known to be good mousers. Told 'em the tale about tossing dead mice (killed by electronic mouse trap) into the back yard for the Chicken Keep-Away Games. The guy with his limited chicken experience burst into laughter and said, "Oh yah, you should see that - them chasing each other and stealing things away from each other!"
One of the other guys then said, "You could get the same effect here if you tossed a beer into that periwinkle there, with a whole fence crew. "Oh, look, the big guy's got it! Oh, no, now the little guy's got the beer! Will he get to keep it?""
Front fence line.
The contractor came back today, with his nephew, to load the HUGE tree rounds into an old flatbed truck with a lift, for delivery to the community church about 2 miles away.
It took at least five trips for them to get all but two of the rounds; I requested those two to be left behind. Dunno why, really, but I want to keep one, and HH wants one, too.
Huge tree. Just huge.
I counted the rings, and that tree was AT LEAST 130 years old. I counted from the very first ring out to the gnarly bark layer.
I'll have to discuss the Correction Notice issued by the Building Department inspector with my contractor. Y'see, when I applied for the permit for the propane work, the county discovered an un-inspected building permit issued in 2006 for the then-new electric circuit breaker work. It had never been signed off... so that job got added to my permit process.
The propane work passed inspection like
that <*snapping fingers*> Not so that old electrical work.
But they're easy fixes. John should be able to take care of them, too, just about like
that. Still need another inspection, though.
<*sigh*>
I called the well pump guy and asked him what he would charge for a ... dang, I forgot the official name of the process AGAIN, but I call it a Flow Rate Performance Test.... on the OTHER well on my property. We'd originally thought it was and old, abandoned, bad well, but it was really used by the next door neighbors until the former owner of my property decided they couldn't use it, they'd have to pull the pump and drill their own well on their own property. When ya take the cap off, and look down into the pipe, visible water is glistening down there.
I know what it cost to do it for the "current" well, during the home inspection process. I figured that was a special "real estate sale" price. The pump guy totally understood what I wanted to do (save a whole chunk o' money by using this well - if it's good - instead of digging the current one deeper) and IS giving me a good price to "sound" the well depth, put together the pump and pipe to run one of those tests, using a generator to run it. If the well is very deep, he will have to use rigid metal pipe instead of PVC, and that will require the use of the boom truck to load it... But sounding it, later this week, he said, will give us the first step in determining what to do.
Won't be back to the property until this coming Friday, which I'm taking off work. By then, the fence will be completed.
