Throwback Tuesday

For today's post, I'm going to answer everyone's most asked question.

 

Why in the world would I want to live in the middle of the woods, surrouded by 10 acres of trees?

 

Reason #1: The Greek and his Wife.

 

I don't think I have to explain myself anymore. Living closer to these two would make my day life.

 

Reason #2: The Harvest

 

For the past 3 years, I have taken up hunting. As it turns out, I'm a pretty good shot.

 

This is my bounty in the front. And here I am with Mr. Sleeveless, Rob, Ray and the Greek

I think I made my Pappy proud :)

The second year was just as successful:

 



Ray also got his first Deer

Now now, you might think that hitting a target as large as a deer is an easy task. So I decided to test my luck with some small game as well.

 Mission Accomplished

This hunting season we had a full house, and I didn't own 10 acres yet. No worries:

I still got it!

 

I hope everyone is having a great week!

 

 

 

 

 

I'll build your bridge over troubled waters...

I got you singing a little Simon & Garfunkel even if those aren't the correct lyrics...

 

We are building a bridge, 2 of them to be exact. From our newly exposed trailer frame. The Greek already has one successful trailer-frame bridge on his property, and we are adding more. He even came to prepare the frame for transporting down the hill.

 

He isn't this angry looking in real life, he was posing for a picture.

Iron Worker doing what he does best.

 

In the meantime, the rest of us tried to quickly remove the last bit of flooring.

 

Almost done!

And we finally finished tearing apart the strange room attached to the back of the frame:

NOTICE: The Sleeveless one is wearing multiple sleeves in this picture.

 Eventually, the Greek came back to see if there was more frame that needed cut. He helped carry the last pieces of the trailer to and fro.

The To

The Fro

 

Underneath all of that junk was this piece of art:

 

I tried to go all Instagram on this one.

The Greek has quite a collection.

 

The final piece of flooring being removed:

Clearly, he is in awe of something.

Back to the bridges:

RobSr.- Steel Cutter

Father and Son lifting steel

Putting the tail end on top of the front end for easy transport.

 

I know you think cutting steel might be an easy task, but don't underestimate it. There were a few casualties:

 

They were good Sawzaw blades...

 

Now it's time to move the frames forward so that we can work on the pile of dirt that was left:

I suppose that is the beauty of big trucks.

With the trailer frame out of the way, C was able to construct this circle of fun:

As we closed up the shop for the day we ventured to the Greek's house to say our goodbyes. We also noticed this...

Like father, like daughter

Good fashion.

I don't have anything to post for Sunday. Basically, we just tried to clean up a bit. RobSr. and the Greek plotted the best way to transport the bridges down the hill. Stay tuned for that.

 

I have concluded the following:

 

You can never have too many bricks, or too many garbage cans, apparently.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Throwback Tuesday

Happy Tuesday everyone! I do have some more updates from this past weekend's adventures, but I wanted to take time to discuss another project from 2012.

 

I have a love/hate relationship with this project. But C has nothing but love for our Teardrop Trailer.

 

Here it is in all of it's glory:

I AM OBVIOUSLY VERY GOOD AT USING PAINT

RobSr. has titled this tiny piece of art work the "Love Shack".

C and I went to look at an old vintage teardrop trailer that we found on Craigslist once upon a time. To our surprise, even old and rotten, they wanted close to $5,000.00 for it. We concluded that it would be cheaper to construct our own. And so off we went to the Internet, finding various tutorials from others that have done the same. We also had a conference with...guess who?

THAT'S RIGHT, THE SLEEVELESS ONE HIMSELF

This project started out a ton of fun. Here are some photos of the progress:

 

This little baby even has electricity, for our ceiling fan, and porch lights.

 

Ceiling fan from inside

All insulated and ready to be finalized.

We were able to snag an Anderson window that fits perfectly.

Now that everything is complete, it's time to add the final touches. Did you know there was a type of wood that bends easily?

I didn't either. There is, and it's called Luann. Applying the Luann to the Teardrop was quite a feat.

The Sleeveless One-Making the final cut.

Sleeveless - Installing Luann from the outside. C is in there somewhere.

C - installing the Luann from the inside

 

I am not sure why, but I am unable to locate any more pictures from this project. Here is the fast recap after the interior Luann was installed.

 

1. Exterior Luann was installed

2. The piano hinge and the hatch were installed

3. Windows and doors were perfectly placed, and hardware was installed

4. The roof was painted with a paint that we ended up not liking much

5. Mattress was purchased to fit

6. When it rains, it pours

 

 

It turns out that not only was the paint not the texture that we thought it would be, the roof also leaks. Which brings me to my next point.

 

While we were demolishing the mobile home on the property, we found some materials on the roof that can be used on our Teardrop Trailer!