I know I haven’t been a ball of fire with posting since I started this blog, but that doesn’t mean I am not working around the farm. I plan to be a little more attentive to the blog in the near future, but for now I’ll at least post a few pictures of what’s been happening around The Barracks at Oyster Creek.
Painting a couple of sides of the house a year.
Priming nearly finished.
Some of the clapboards are in rough shape. Not quite bad enough to replace, but if you don’t seal them up with caulking, the rot will continue.
After caulking. Should buy another decade or two on those boards.
Pallet cooler project. I won’t bore you with the details since the internet is chock full of design plans for this (all of which I ignored). Things that are supposed to look rough and like they’re recycled are right in my wheelhouse.
Totally awesome gruesome sports injury, aka, I cannot catch a football as well as I thought.
Devastating win in the dumb sign competition.
Prepping the LuLu for sailing.
Captain Aaron and Edwin the First Mate. FWIW, it’s hard to take a photo of sailing a boat that you are currently sailing.
Sadly, this juniper that was around 200 years old had to come down before a storm dropped it on the house.
Supposedly it was planted by the original owner children, something along those lines. Putting it in the early 1800s most likely.
And now it’s next year’s firewood. Waste not want not.
Artsy chainsaw photo.
Finally, had to shock the well, which I will explain below the pics.
I wish I had a picture of me going down the hole – it’s small enough that I have to raise my arms above my head to get in there.
And just because I care about my readers, here’s a blurry picture of the inside of the well by the cap.
An explanation for the well shocking: as shown in the photos, our well cap is actually underground in this ridiculous configuration. That means it’s susceptible to all sorts of things that run off from the ground (it had e. coli when we were buying the house). So until I can get around to extending the well pipe up, once a year or so I have to shock it with chlorine tablets.
Tablets go in, hose gets run until it smells like a pool coming out of the well. Then run all the faucets in the house until it smells like a YMCA, turn them off and let sit for an hour. Then run all the faucets until it no longer smells like chlorine.
Pro Tip: This is best conducted on a day when you can leave your windows open.
And, finally, I got the open fireplaces inspected and they are ready for business. Take a look at this sweet, sweet video (originally sent to my wife, so that’s who it’s being narrated for).
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The Foolhardy Farmer 