AZ ranch

[dodge man]

Whew, I just read this thread start to finish. I just read your posts Bo, if I had read all the responses I would be reading for a week.

A few thoughts. Thanks for sharing your story and all the pics

The place came out great.

Your story is a great example of government out of hand. I live in Illinois and we have our problems but where I live there is no inspections or approval process. If I want a crappy sub standard place built, it is on me. I guess they call that personal responsibility. Is all the hoops you had to jump threw a county level thing? My county is about 30,000 people and the largest town, about 20,000 has any real zoning or inspection process and it pretty tame compared to what you went through. I am a recently retired land surveyor and worked for a civil engineering company my entire career so I know about getting stuff approved. They were shooting stuff down they had no business worrying about. It’s a long past nightmare for you but I just relived it with you.

I hope your knee replacement goes well and continued good luck.

 

[BoFuller]

Your story is a great example of government out of hand. I live in Illinois and we have our problems but where I live there is no inspections or approval process. If I want a crappy sub standard place built, it is on me. I guess they call that personal responsibility. Is all the hoops you had to jump threw a county level thing? My county is about 30,000 people and the largest town, about 20,000 has any real zoning or inspection process and it pretty tame compared to what you went through.

In years past there was a code for the city and one for rural areas of the county, but just before I started, they made the strict city code be county wide. Prescott use to be a great little country town where the rodeo was the biggest thing of the year. About a decade ago, too many libs from CA moved there and infiltrated the county gov and hence the code became a power thing instead of a safety issue. Sedona is also in our county and they have ruined it as far as the locals are concerned. It’s all about business now.

 

[BoFuller]

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Front steps. Eventually I want a full front porch.

I was looking at this post from 5 years ago. Well, 兎ventually has finally arrived. LOL

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Lol, too many of my ‘eventualities’ never arrived.

 

[civilian]

I was looking at this post from 5 years ago. Well, å…Žventually has finally arrived. LOL

Looking at that 5 year old post, I am still amazed of the size of those logs. One log about the height of the railing in the later post. And having to use a chain saw to cut openings for doors and windows. Amazing. Jon

 

[BoFuller]

Now everything is on hold. Monday morning I checked into the hospital for a total knee replacement. The surgery well very well and by 4 in the afternoon I was checked out and heading home. Since my wife is still working as a nurse in Scottsdale, “home” for me has temporarily switched from the Ranch to the mobile in a senior park. Very boring but I get my own personal home care. Hopefully it will not take TOO long, as it is time to start cutting and splitting firewood. My first PT session is going to be Thursday morning. That might give me an indication of my time frame.

 

[joeyd]

Glad to hear everything went well. Follow through with your rehab and stay mobile. This gives a different meaning to following up on your "progress".

 

[Jim Nelson]

I'm glad to hear you're doing well and in good hands. I've known several people that had knee replacements and the only one that I know of that had problems was a nephew. He started off real well and got through the therapy with flying colors then a couple of years later he just stopped walking or any exercise and went down hill. All he wanted to do was sit around and drink beer and smoke cigarettes. He died from a heart attack a month after turning 70. It really bothered me as we were real close. Everyone else I know has done great and I'm sure you will too being as active as you are. Best wishes.

 

[Aquabird]

I was out in Prescott a few years ago. My son and I went to a week of shooting school near there.
My wife thought Prescott was a unique town. Too bad about the progressives. They screw up one place, pack up and move somewhere else to screw that up. Ca to Denver, Ca to Texas, N.Y. to north Caroline and Fla. It is like a disease they carry.
I like you thread and posts. Now, I am in the middle of a build...I am only doing a small part of it though.
I am going to ask about burying a propane tank. I am guessing that you would have to own it, to bury it?

 

[dodge man]

I would plan on it being a few weeks before you are doing any wood cutting. Good luck on the rehab.

 

[mred2]

A friend of mine just had his 2nd knee replacement. The first one went great. My sister had one done about 7 years ago. She was riding mountain bikes after that. Good luck!

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Hope your therapy goes well. Please go through your motions, it is painful at first. My friend at church did not, and he had to have a 2nd operation, or be put under, to bend his new knee far enough to work.

 

[BoFuller]

Well, I do own mine, but I cannot tell you if you have to own it to bury it. If you had convincing arguments (hunters? That might shoot it) then maybe the company would bury it.

 

[BoFuller]

Slight hiccup. I found out, after much pain, that my bladder got blocked, and I had to make a trip to the ER to get a catheter to relieve the pressure. Now I will have to make an appt with a urologist to figure out why, and get the catheter back out.

Growing old is such fun!

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Hope you get that figured out soon.

 

[Jim Nelson]

That's a tough one Bo, getting older is Mother Natures way of letting us know that Father Time sucks.

 

[BoFuller]

Well I went in to get my catheter taken out. After a flow test, which I failed miserably, they put another one in.

I was not ready for that. I did not see that coming. Not at all. I cannot remember being so bummed.

I will try Flowmax for 10 days and try again. If I fail again, they go in with a camera to check it out. Not my idea of fun.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I’ve had way worse than the camera.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Well I went in to get my catheter taken out. After a flow test, which I failed miserably, they put another one in.

I was not ready for that. I did not see that coming. Not at all. I cannot remember being so bummed.

I will try Flowmax for 10 days and try again. If I fail again, they go in with a camera to check it out. Not my idea of fun.

Prayers they help you out. I tried Flowmax, but didn't work that well for me, they switched me to Terazosin which works great for me..but....it is also a blood pressure medicine and I did not know that. When I tried to cut back on it, my BP shot through the roof. Other than that, I have no side effects. Just don't want to get caught out of town without the medicine.

 

[3Ts]

I am going to ask about burying a propane tank. I am guessing that you would have to own it, to bury it?

None of the Propane suppliers around here would burry a tank unless I owned it. Had to do with the cost of burying it and when lease was up digging it up again. They were primarily into rentals and biggest tank they had was 250 gal. They also did not have equipment to dig the hole to bury it. I wanted a 1000 gal tank (generators use a lot of fuel) and one of the suppliers could get one, but I had to dig the hole.