The Texas Triangle. When Boxes in Fields needs to visit both big city #2 and big city #1 on the same day, the drive makes a triangle on the map. This trip is strongly avoided for it makes for a very long day. From home base to big city #2 where containers are bought is three hours. Big city #2 to big city #1 where loaner machinery and tools are located is another three hours. Big city #1 to home…
Decided to take a break from Boxes In Fields for a road trip to big city #1. In the next coming week, ditches will be dug in preparation for water and electrical lines and the backhoe attached was being borrowed for the tractor. Digging 300 feet of trench 2 feet deep by hand was not an option and it would take more than a day for a rental usage. Rental fees for a days worth of use for a trencher…
Safety, safety, safety. This is something I cannot stress enough. Machines are mean and are NEVER to be trusted. If you don’t believe me, just scroll through the internet one day. Machines break, cut, disembowel, and kill people. Jesh, that sounds so harsh. But the truth is the truth and hiding from the truth only gets you dumb. There, I stated that nicely. When working with machinery the first and most important safety skill to observe every minute of every…
We eat. All of us. If you don’t eat, then you better get to reading, cause you’re not gonna be here long. And boy do we love to eat. Grab some fast food stats and you will be floored at the amount of crap we shove down our gullets. And here’s the kicker, everything that goes in, sooner or later must come out. The average human poops 128 grams per day or about 4.5 ozs. Now I would speculate in…
It seems as though as it is all work and no play and that is just not true. There has been lots of fun times at Boxes in Fields, too. The Yodeling doggo. If we owned ten thousands acres to roam around, doggo would be found day after day at 10,001 acre mark. To keep her from roaming away while working, she is tied to the tree or left in the car, depending upon the heat and length of stay. …
D-Day. It wasn’t good then and I didn’t anticipate it being good today either. The unloading of the first shipping container has been a source of stress for everyone in various levels. Weeeeeell, that might be a stretch. I was stressing it, the Planner’s dad (the Doubter) is helping and he is slightly stressing, so inadvertently it is stressing the Planner. The box has been sitting on the trailer for the last week taunting me. It’s so much taller and…
Last Friday the Planner and the Kid purchased a power pole from an approved seller. An approved seller, what is that you ask? According to the only local power supplier (the company who owns all the power lines) in this area, the power pole must built using pre-approved components to their exact specifications. To our luck, the poles can be bought from an approved seller and installed yourself. The assembled pole comes with the correct electrical meter box for your…
Last week the turbo malfunctioned leaving the truck running off prime. It would drive itself at regular speeds, but could not, would not haul a load. Parts were ordered to replace the worn out turbo, another trip to big city #1 was made and several hours later with the help from the Doubter and a friend or two, the truck was back in one piece. Taking advantage of the situation by being in the big city #1, and after much…
Once again it was house divided. The Planner went to pick up the first shipping container in big city #2 at dark-thirty, the Kid went to grandmas for the day sometime later while still dark-thirty, and I was up at a later dark thirty. Getting up with the darkness does have it benefits. The world is quiet and sunrises. After completing some chores when the world was still dark, I finally went to work just as the first light began…
Back to square three. In the great debacle of attempting to gain drinkable water at Boxes in Fields, the city was contacted in regards to the cost estimate for having city water brought down. Last year when working through the due diligence before buying the land, a utilities request was completed confirming or denying city water, septic, and gas. City water and gas required an extension and city sewer required engineer. From the numerous other properties looked at over the…