COMPLAINING --a delightful little old lady... in line to vote.. said she was told.....
2020 10 25
SO.........next project
A quick look through my MENTAL version of northern tool catalog I know they have those tables and they're not expensive the problem with them at least the $300 variety is that the table is not very big namely 20 inches by 36 inches… bud's curiosity gets far bigger than that .., and I found that the proper one for him would be about $3000 and he certainly is worth that--- he gets more than that amount of work done .. and then I realized we already have the perfect vehicle anyway if you want to call it a vehicle .. that PURPLE forklift which we can't driveAROUND THE YARD MUCH….. because it really is made to work on a warehouse floor concrete something and once you get it stuck you have a 24 hour job to try and get it out --- we've done that .. but that still---- with its Forks --- would be a perfect thing for Bud to use to lift all manner of broken EQUI-PMENT up in the air so he didn't have to crawl around .. and heaven knows it's strong enough to lift any equipment we now own . plus it seems to work unlike gasoline engines which I have trouble with---- this thing is gas .. ..
Mulling this over I decided we needed to pour A concrete pad to set this thing on because even now on the hot top it's SINKING slowly .
if I poured a concrete pad---- which having done this before is only one phone call away --- we then would need to oHAVE some provision for keeping the rain off BUDS head which would mean building a building which would be fun except I don't think we have room to do that---- by the time you figure getting electricity to the area it would get complicated .. and then I remembered the back of that white G tent the floor is pretty solid with what was once the TORN UP pool patio from the people across the pond .. namely about five or six inch thick chunks 24 INCH ALMOST SQUARES…. which I put together like a puzzle in the back of the G tent .. standing there with Bud we decided that those blocks really ought to be able to hold up that forklift -----if it doesn't we're going to have an awful mess .. but it's worth a shot so the next step is too clear a path through the G TENT to drive that forklift on so we could have it land on those concrete blocks and then just leave it there as a portable elevator it really would be a perfect solution ..G TENT already PROVIDING A ROOF … WITH some clever use of tarps we own he might even be able to use the bullet heaters to keep it vaguely warm .. IT Smacks of creativity for which we are famous .. and now all we need is some kind of very strong metal iron steel pallet sort of thing to use as the tabletop .. they must make THEM somewhere .. if not there's my friendly welding guy in topsfield …. who's been very kind about making weird things for service dog project .
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PROJECT “SPILL OVER” IS A CONSTANT CONCERN HERE..I bought those nice Amish tables for SITTING AT IN that G tent and now have found I had to move them all into the tea tent because the G tent has an amazing collection of ongoing projects … and if I'm not careful the ongoing projects spill over into the nice tables in the tea tent ..
.. Like putting together the doors to the chicken Palace .. at any rate the whole place is usable .. and mark will be along today to cook hamburgers I think he said so or was that next Sunday .. maybe both Next Sunday the week from today is a chating Sunday where I hope we have some more chicken bricks gone .. I am horrified to think that anybody who reads this thing does not know about chicken bricks .. it's possible to click around our website and see that keep clicking on the chickens .. and if you can't figure out how to do it which a lot of older people like me can't .. just send us checks in $10 about and Donna will assign you a quick pic .. and that will help us pay the payroll .
I suppose there are new people who don't understand The T TENT and G tent .
quickly ..I SOLD MY CABOOSE .. WHICH ONCE SAT WHERE THE T TENT NOW IS...... BUT WE LIKED SITTING IN THAT AREA wattching the barn... the tea tent was once the ice T 10 where we sat and drank Arizona iced tea by the gallon .. that tea tent was is made from two huge pine trees from puppy Hill which had ominously begun to sag toward the barn .. I hired an old TREE company do cut them down and I stood by the grand father who owned the company and I asked him to make a mark in the sand as to where the top of the tree was going to land and he was only four inches off .. these trees have to be 80 feet how tall they are very big .. once on the ground I asked around and found there was such a thing as a portable sawmill .. and contacted a guy who came in and made lumber out of those trees full width lumber so a 2 by 4 is actually 2 by 4 .. and with very little help .. and some of the lumber from George Myers fence he just took down ... I built that T-1tent .. with more courage than knowledge and it's done very well some of the boards in the roof are really wide boards .. that's 15 years ago and it is sagging a little in the back but it hasn't fallen down .
the G TENT was an aviary I once had there where I had beautiful partridges and Peacocks .. I had made that aviary out of pieces sold to make green houses
consequently it was not tremendously strong and we had a Blizzard with an awful lot of snow and it collapsed .. not only had it collapsed but my wooden indoor arena 60 by 100 had collapsed also .. I replaced that with a clear span heavy duty agricultural large buildings .60 x 80 . notable here is the fact that the Ipswich building inspector did not approve of those and wanted me to use his his friend to put up another wooden arena .. hence the comment “ you're out of your League you're only a woman “
that arena has been wonderful so when the aviary collapsed I bought another smaller version .. the camera people made fun of it calling it a garage for giraffes which was how it got its G tent name .. it certainly is higher than I needed .. but I like the archS snow for shedding SNOW .And that's where we now are .
the amount of equipment and just plain stuff .. necessary to run this place is horrendous .. TAKE simple leaf raking .. the GE company community service bunch came here to rake leaves one year bringing 30 ranks with THEM … to that has also been donated a backpack blower to at least blow leaves off the driveway .. and somebody else donated a rolling blower which will blow things off the driveway into the neighbors yard almost . brown leaves and pine cones hide things the dogs leave behind
so de-leafing is critical....
just the problem of leaves has made two projects necessary The forklift to repair equipment …. T he new chicken coop has made the old chicken coop not being used .. so guess where the rates are .. AnD A generic collection of shovels and crowbars .
ALL THIS GROWTH--- +AND NOW…. SOMEONE HAS LEFT A WELL BUILT “KISSING BOOTH” AT OUR FRONT DOOR. SO THAT WILL GO THO THE ARENA…
I guess we ought to call the whole CONCEPT the battle of the bulge .
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