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10 Sep ’13 - 3:34 pm

tour of the pad and driveway

http://www.youtube.c.....KcotEQD_6k

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12 Sep ’13 - 6:44 pm

Sweet, this should be good. You're going to want a couple gargoyles at the roof corners, you know, for looks and stuff.

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13 Sep ’13 - 9:28 pm

gargoyles, check!

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17 Sep ’13 - 6:33 pm

well Rinkus gave me a number for a friend of his who has a quarry, so I called him yesterday and he said he could deliver 16 yards of stone for 230 dollars, but I need to pour the pad first, so I'm gonna try and rent a compactor tomorrow and start working on the pad

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20 Sep ’13 - 4:36 pm

Well after talking with a couple smarter than I, we decided it would be best to not compact and just let the pad set over winter. With how thick it is, compacting would be a wast of time and money right now. The best thing for it is to let it sit with rain and snow working on it. So now we wait

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23 Sep ’13 - 8:07 am

well, I got a check for a load of oak, pulp and some firewood. It was far less than I expected. I think I'm going to take a ride out there today and go see what's left and talk to the wood cutter. I think I might just pull the plug on it and call it good. Don't know if my expectations were to high based off what others were telling me, but if that is going to be the the norm, I'd rather just keep the wood myself and utilize it.

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20 Oct ’13 - 11:56 am

well, I did have a nice little vid showing some of the changes to the land. Until I got a copywrite warning from youtube because as I was driving in there was 25 seconds of the intro to a fleetwood mac song. Really? So anyways, here's the whole song, we will return to our regularly scheduled programming shortly.