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Got out in the yard a little today to

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George-CT

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trim up the weeds the horses skipped. All considered, they did a good job. I have all kinds of work to day out in the patures. they are getting away from me with all the rain, the weeds are crowding out the good grass..... A lot of it I have to keep cut with the weed wacker because of all the stone around these parts. Always digging them out, but its never enough. I'll show you later in the year when I'm on that project. Just starting to be able to move about, but don't move to fast. Nice to feel the sun again.....Beautiful here today. Nice breeze, about 75 degree's. We are racing this weekend at the club but need to do it without my services this time.....3rd week away from there. Anyhow a few pictures of the yard and the horses work.... As you can see, its green here now.......Its really starting to get to be to much for us now to keep it all open. More decisions to be made I guess.....

George-CT
 
George that's to pretty, we have nothing like that down here. Would love to find some long leaf pine a couple hundred years old, for building a new dinning table. You got a great place.
 
That is a beautiful place to live, and everything is so green. George, I pray that neither you or anyone else ever has to make the decision that I had to make five years ago. Everything is perfect when out of no where, with no warning, you encounter a health issue that turns your life completely upside down. I wish that I could strike a deal with my God to only mess with me and leave you and a few other of my friends on this Forum alone, but as you well know, things do not work that way...but maybe he will listen to my request. George, enjoy that fresh air and always put that smile on your face every morning when you wake up! Kelley (Texas) :)
 
the work gets to be a bit much. Your place is a delight for sure! That last picture, bottom right, Miss Piggie looks real! :biggrin:
 
a concrete pink pig.... My kids and there friends used to spend weekends here growing up and they had a Porkies Party like in
the movie.... Must of been a heck of a time as I was picking up caps around the place 4 months later.... They used to all come here to camp out, just build bone fires at a big stone circle we have about 75 yards away... They still build them there.... All the girls were into the horses and they had a ball here, and the boys the bikes, 4x4 anything they could take in the woods... But the pig remained and we put it in one of the rock gardens or what is left of it. The kids and their friends still enjoy seeing it out there and crack up. Wish I had made that party but was out west at the time.

Geo
 
many times. Jane and I are trying to stay here but its pretty much her and I now.... Andy has a new significant other now so its up to us to keep it open. The horses are a fun and Jane really would not be happy without them. Her feelings are when she can't toss a leg over one, shoot her. We are trying to design his and her wheel chairs, one with a horse on it and one 4x4. Just kidding of course but we would feel much like you must feel at times, just out of place in the city. I was hoping one of the kids would build a home on the property here but that has not happened yet. I'm not sure they can or want to see us as getting long in the tooth so to speak...We try to stay active, but its mostly Jane and I helping each other. Kids have their own life. They pitch in when we ask for sure, especially Heidi, the other 3 are scattered all over with their own lifes to live. Husbands are from other states etc so they go with them. CT is expensive state to live in so I can see why. Meantime we will keep on keeping on. Tnx again. George-CT
 
the old ones here are chestnut. Those are in big demand. I sold one off here out by the road when we built this place. Wish I had not as I had always wanted to used the boards inside on the floors and diagonal walls on the sides. The exposed beams are still here and those were going to be both the ceiling for the first floor and floor of 2 second story lofts. Hense why we have 20 foot ceilings. Jane and I built that one just messing around on weekends up here when we used to come here for camping. Just telephone poles and 1 inch pine we cut off here. We started with just a 12x12 stall for her horse, then another. Then added a 10 foot drive thru, then 2 more 12x12 stalls. The roof line we did because we could make all the rafters in one piece on the loft floor and then lay them in and flip them up. I redid the roof about 10 years ago to metal. Now its 3 stalls, tack and grain room, and the drive thru in center....We talk about adding on to it but time has passed by. Hoping my daughter Heidi will keep the place and I know Andy wants to also....but again, they have other people in their lives so who knows..... Lot of land here and there not making any more so either way they should be fine. You might not like the smell of these pine boards, they really smell horsey like.

George-CT
 
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You have a fine home there George and can be proud of it for sure!

Were the stone walls there or did you build them?

It's always wonderful when a man can realize his dreams.

It's good to hear that you have been able to get out more.

CJ
 
the land up this way..... Most of this piece of property has them along the outside edge and many up the inside..... This piece was part of another farm way back when. Our other piece has them also but only on boundrys....... A lot of people sell them off to the stone masons to build fireplaces etc. They are starting to frown on that now and look at them as antiques from the past. Most of ours a long the roads, folks over the years grabbed the cap stones off them for the stone mantles or fireplace harths or even stairs.....

Here are a a few shots of what they do to the walls around here. The take the top ones first and will knock a wall over to get the bottom ones..... The stairs and well stones are what they use them for also....

George-CT
 
Those are fine examples of a stone masons craft!

I built one along my front yard to keep it from washing out into the street as it had been a bit at a time over the years.

I need to reset a couple of the stones, but over all they have been very stable!

I built another at the end of what used to be my driveway for the same reason as the drive was higher than the back yard and tended to cave in without the wall's support.

That part of the drive is now a flower bed and the wall is as good as new after 15 years or so.

I split the cap stones I used on each end from a single stone given me by a customer from deep river. It had been a property corner marker and I hauled in a load of heavy stone and built her a pier to replace the single stone and now that stone stabilizes my wall.

When I have a chance to do some weeding I'll post the walls to show what can be done if you just keep putting one on top o the other until Yer done!

CJ
 
Connecticut has black widow spiders and their close kin brown recluse spiders (both to be found in out of the way spots such as old barns, old farmhouse cellars and misc out-buildings as they are "reclusive" creatures). We have few snakes in most areas, but there are copperheads and rattlers in out of the way spots and are usually not found in housing areas. George may have some around where he lives in his off the beaten path location with its heavy green cover and no doubt some ledge formations snakes love to dwell in.

My walls, as is true of most. have their resident chipmunks and sometimes the dominant male among them will sit on alert atop a large stone screaming at the top of his lungs to alert the world he is boss!

The winters here make it impossible for scorpions to take up residence and keep the snakes in check for most of the year.

In all the years I crawled around under houses as a plumber I never once encountered a snake, but did on occasion come across a dead possum or some other critter that died during the winter.

Regards,

CJ
 
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