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Monty is loving it.

Monty eats up all this time outside working in the field. That little bugger lives to be outside chasing anything that moves in the hay.

I snapped a couple photos of him while I was out shooting the progress on the barn today. The hay is currently taller than him by, oh about 6 inches.

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Barn Progress

Today Charlie and the boys got busy with the trim for the doors in preperation for the siding. Once they get the doors put together it’s all down hill from there.

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We have a working man door now, and for the most part the sliders are framed in but they aren’t put together yet. We’re missing a few pieces of trim. They’ll be back tomorrow to work all day on what they can around the doors.

I left work after lunch around 1:30pm. On the way home I hit two tractor dealers and got a quick education on compact tractors. Then headed home to do more work on the fence.

I picked up the BobCat from Baker and got busy. I set 11 punched in 15 new holes, re drilled 3 others and set 11 posts before Claudine got home with dinner. I’m wiped out.

We plan to set the remaining 40+ posts tomorrow and be done with it. Woohoo!

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Barn Update

This morning Halsey delivered *most* of the siding. Charlie and the boys showed up to start work.

I took off bright and early to get our electrical permit. We have a rather unusual situation. Well probalby not all that unusual. To get electric to our barn we don’t have any simple options.

We can:

  • A) Have Cinergy set a pole $$$ Ouch
  • B) Have Cynergy set a transformer to an existing Pole $$$ Ouch
  • C) Trench a boat load of very expensive cable back to an existing pole $$$ Ouch
  • D) Tap it off the house.

Option D is the best except we have no capacity off the house which is why we added service to the old barn.

So we now need to upgrade the service to the house, something we’ve been needing to do for a while now. This in itself involves other issues. We have to change the attachment point, update the panel, move the meter base, etc. But we get to bring 200amp service to the house, and pull 100 amp service to the barn off the house.

I picked up the permit for that this morning.

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