# 1 Spring Project

[AndyM]

<font color="blue"> What is a bramble ? </font>

Remember the Johnny Horton song, "The Battle of New Orleans"?

"In 1814 we took a little trip
Along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississip."

Skip ahead to later in the song...

"Yeah, they ran through the briars an' they ran through the brambles
An' they ran through the bushes where the rabbits couldn't go.
They ran so fast that the hounds couldn't catch 'em
Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico."

Now that I have that song going through your head for the rest of the day, you now have a good visual of a bramble. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[AndyM]

<font color="blue"> What is your first spring project when the snow clears and the ground thaws ? </font>

I have three projects I would like to do this year at my house, if I can juggle finances around to pay for everything without going into debt...

1) Pole barn for the tractors. My attached two car garage contains my wife's car and the new tractor. The size of the building keeps shrinking to stay within my budget (stupid OSB prices /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif). My wife wants an attached picnic shelter on the back too.

2) An attractive but inexpensive fence from the front corner of the house to the next door neighbor's fence. This will give the dog a little more room to roam when I can't watch her.

3) If time and money permit, I would like to build a deck on the back of the house to replace the steps the builder put in two years ago. If not, that will be the number one project next year.


Who's up for a barn raising party? /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[billbill1]

Clean up my 40 X 60 quanset hut so I can store and find my stuff, redo the front lawn and reseed, and get the garden started.

 

[Poppa]

I hope to take a weedy patch and transform it into a raised bed vegetable garden. Mostly cause the deer need something to eat /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif


Although...as PB in WA said, I should finish the deck. But it has been fine like it is for the last three years so I don't see why I can't let it go until next year. My wife does but I don't /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif


Mike

 

[jwstewar]

Oh I also forgot - put in an invisible fence for the 2 mixed lab puppies that we got last year so they don't run away like our beagle mix did last summer /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif.....I still miss her, she was a so much better dog than these labs....

 

[Westonium]

1. Plumbing - fix pumphouse guts, replacing water main
2. Subdividing and electric fencing the perimeter of a 2.5 acre pasture
3. Preparing large new veggie garden
4. Planting trees trees trees (and raspberry brambles and other stuff)
5. finish remodling laundry room, remodel kitchen, fix seepage on roof

Anything else won't get done till summer for sure.

 

[jwnge]

Move these rocks from where I stored them last year just before it rained and froze. them build retaining wall for where they came from.. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[johnday]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Johnday

I retired to upstate NY, I'm physically working harder now than I did before I retired

Ron )</font>

Yeah, I'm told that happens, but the retirees I know, also appear to have lost ten years in the process!! Can't wait to find out for myself!!! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[johnday]

Junkman; It appears you need me to do your carpentry, and I need you to help me with welding! /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[Junkman]

You need to see PineRidge........ he is the master welder in the Midwest. Besides, Ohio is closer to Michigan than Connecticut. However, I accept your offer of carpentry help. It isn't that I can't do it, but more a matter of I can't seem to get motivated to do it. I had help to get to this point on the decking, but I did do all the footings and support beams myself. My attention span isn't what it used to be. What I used to do all day, now takes me all day to get started. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[slydog]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( It isn't that I can't do it, but more a matter of I can't seem to get motivated to do it. I had help to get to this point on the decking, but I did do all the footings and support beams myself. My attention span isn't what it used to be. What I used to do all day, now takes me all day to get started.)</font>

Junk, I have the very same problem! I like your observation about reposting at the end of the year to see what actually gets done! Maybe this will help motivate me to work on my stuff, so I'll take that as a challenge! /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif And I dare you to finish that deck!

 

[ronjhall]

John
You don't have to go too Ohio or North East CT for help welding your projects together. But then maybe you need another <font color="blue"> BLUE </font> owner to get the welds right. Oops. Junkman has a <font color="orange"> ORANGE </font> tractor. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Varmintmist]

Finish grading the yard. Plant grass.

Build a retaining wall. I am thinking RR ties, any suggestions? Ideas on versalok block vs ties vs using black locust ?

 

[garbageman]

I need to replace the sill plates in the rear of the barn and sure up one corner. Can't wait!
Ray