Homestead mailing list

[WILLIAM <billymegab AT yahoo.com>]

Lisa,
   
  I'm thinking about a nice outdoor solar heated shower. Right now I just use 
the hot water from my black hose when coditions are right!!  LOL
   
  What will yours look like??
   
  William

"Lisa K.V. Perry" <lisakvperry AT gmail.com> wrote:
  On 6/8/06, Keith B wrote:
>
>
> Not sure if I qualify as a homesteader anymore either, as we sold the cows
> and butchered the hogs last fall.


Sure you are, you've done more than most of us who are active or lurking on
this list. At least on the Carla Emery master list, you can check off more
things than I can. ;)

Time for me to go to work. It's nice to be working at home again. I finished
> a large (600 sq.ft.) deck last week for a former BIL.


Wish we could hire you--we need two decks built (and assorted odd jobs).
Hubby is a musician and summers (especially weekends) are his busiest time
of year. The carpenters and handy men around here are so busy they don't
return calls. I'm ready to learn and to assist someone, anyone, but my
right wrist won't allow me to do much.

I am supposed to start a siding job next week. I'm hoping to be ready to
> hook up the water to the cabin before I do.


Our cabin is about 90% done. Friends of ours laughed and said that
qualifies as a completed cabin around here. We pulled electric (not sure if
that was the right thing) and water to it two years ago, but have yet to
install the outdoor solar heated shower. We have a mama bear woodstove
ready to be installed the next time we have a few able-bodied men over
without present back problems who feel up to moving a chunk of steel. We
are considering finding someone who will live in the cabin gratis, in
exchange for them taking care of the animals when we're gone and helping
maintain the farm 10-15 hours a month.

I need a kitchen sink faucet, a water heater and the upstairs bathroom
> fixtures.


Have you looked into those wall unit water heaters that heat on demand? We
learned about it too late for our addition, never compared prices, but it
saved space and energy.

Lisa
_______________________________________________
Homestead list and subscription:
http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/homestead
Change your homestead list member options:
http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/options/homestead/billymegab%40yahoo.com
View the archives at:
https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/homestead




 __________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Tired of spam?  Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around 
http://mail.yahoo.com 
>From erthnsky AT bellsouth.net  Thu Jun  8 11:58:35 2006
Return-Path: <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
X-Original-To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
Delivered-To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
Received: from imf16aec.mail.bellsouth.net (imf16aec.mail.bellsouth.net
        [205.152.59.64])
        by lists.ibiblio.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 394844C00B
        for <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>; Thu,  8 Jun 2006 11:58:34 -0400 
(EDT)
Received: from ibm58aec.bellsouth.net ([216.78.32.180])
        by imf16aec.mail.bellsouth.net with ESMTP id
        
<20060608155834.NLFT9760.imf16aec.mail.bellsouth.net AT ibm58aec.bellsouth.net>
        for <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>; Thu, 8 Jun 2006 11:58:34 -0400
Received: from bellsouth.net ([216.78.32.180]) by ibm58aec.bellsouth.net
        with ESMTP
        id <20060608155832.NYYO20372.ibm58aec.bellsouth.net AT bellsouth.net>
        for <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>; Thu, 8 Jun 2006 11:58:32 -0400
Message-ID: <4488498A.80706 AT bellsouth.net>
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 12:00:10 -0400
From: Bevanron <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
Organization: EarthNSky Farm
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US;
        rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax; CDonDemand-Dom)
X-Accept-Language: en-us, en
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
References: <44848F1A.8060709 AT bellsouth.net> <44881AB8.8020209 AT epix.net>
In-Reply-To: <44881AB8.8020209 AT epix.net>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Harpie visit
X-BeenThere: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.8
Precedence: list
Reply-To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
List-Id: <homestead.lists.ibiblio.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/homestead>,
        <mailto:homestead-request AT lists.ibiblio.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/homestead>
List-Post: <mailto:homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
List-Help: <mailto:sympa AT lists.ibiblio.org?subject=HELP>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/homestead>,
        <mailto:homestead-request AT lists.ibiblio.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 15:58:35 -0000



Keith B wrote:

> Hey Bev!
> 
> Not sure if I qualify as a homesteader anymore either, as we sold the
>  cows and butchered the hogs last fall. The barn is in the slow 
> process of becoming a woodshop. We did keep the chickens and of 
> course once you have barn cats they remain. I just talked to my 
> sister yesterday and she is going to let us keep a pig at her place 
> this year. I was surprised a bit when she said yes because we've 
> refused to raise them for other family members since Gin's brother 
> talked us into keeping one for him 15 years back. He was supposed to
>  help with feed and chores ...

I think I recall that cautionary tale about pig raising.  We have ended
up raising two pigs every 2-3 years.  We currently have a year's supply
of pork left, so I suppose we will get a couple of piggies next winter
and process them this time next year.  We like keeping pigs over the
winter, contrary to homestead wisdom.  There's less smell and while it
takes a bit longer to grow them out, it works for us.....the last time
we raised a few was over the winter of 2004-2005.
Why are you not raising pigs at your own place?


> 
> We took a "real" vacation for the first time in twenty years a couple
>  months ago. We spent a week at my brother's place in Tennessee. Of 
> course, it was a working vacation; I helped Steve insulate and 
> drywall the house he's building for his son, and we built his wife an
>  ironing board cabinet and then I spent a couple days working with my
>  other brother Rick (an electrician and plumber) who lives about 
> twenty miles away from Steve and Sher. Rick was working on a job 
> right on the shores of the Tennessee River. That was cool.

Tennessee....rivers....vacation....AAAAAHHHHH!
Two weeks ago, Ron and I also took a vacation to Tennessee and northern
Alabama.  He hadn't had a vacation in over 10 years, so we were really
looking forward to spending some rec time together.  He's building a
wood strip canoe at present, but had never done any real canoeing, so we
decided to take some canoe trips and go camping so that I could fish and
he could learn to canoe. I had some flatwater/lake canoe experience, but
had never paddled a river.  We picked the Elk River in south central TN,
a tributary of the Tennessee,  as it is a Class 1, slow, scenic/wildlife
oriented, float river.  Let me be the first to tell everyone that if you
are inexperienced, even a float river can be dangerous.  We did a lot of
things wrong, and to make a long story short, we turned turtle (hard
side up) and I ended up breaking my arm 5 miles into a 14 mile river
tour in the middle of freakin' nowhere!  We ended up cutting our trip
short due to my arm.
It was still a worthwhile journey and I look forward to doing it again
once we get a better handle on things.  It was beautiful...not a soul in
sight.



> 
> The log cabin is almost finished. I'm currently preparing the 
> bathroom shower for tile. Maybe this is the year we move in. :)

I was thinking that you had already moved in.....

> 
> Our son is still "camping" in the house (in my new office) after 
> returning home, "for a couple months" two years ago.

LOL!  Does he help you out at all?  How old is he now?


> 
> Time for me to go to work. It's nice to be working at home again. I 
> finished a large (600 sq.ft.) deck last week for a former BIL. I am 
> supposed to start a siding job next week. I'm hoping to be ready to 
> hook up the water to the cabin before I do. We're still waiting on 
> the bathroom vanity countertop that we ordered six weeks ago. Other 
> than that and the tile in the shower, I need a kitchen sink faucet, a
>  water heater and the upstairs bathroom fixtures.

We are also working on various home repair projects-the floor, the
bathroom, kitchen countertops, etc., but they have taken a back seat to
Ron's canoe obsession.  He is also building a telescope, so the house is
getting low priority right now, much to my dissatisfaction.  My father
died in January, and I have some cash to make renovations, but even
dedicated cash on hand, it's a slow go and I am beginning to doubt that
it will be done before 2007 rolls around. :(
What kind of countertop did you order?
Have you checked with a Habitat ReStore for possible materials?
http://www.re-store.com/locator/index.php
Habitat for Humanity resells some donated goods in various stores around
the country.  You might find some deals.

Bev


-- 
erthnsky AT bellsouth.net  BevanRon of EarthNSky Farm      NW Georgia USDA Zone 7
34.498N 85.076W