Going Off Grid in East Tennessee; The Story and Chat Thread (towers, square)

[kygman]

Florida flipper thread?? I missed out on that one! Where is it? Looked through the Florida threads and couldn't find it.

[Isitmeorarethingsnuts?]

Dang it. I thought I had subscibed to it and now I can't find it, I saw in a previous post that there was a thread about a house that Mike and Lisa flipped in Florida. Can anyone help, please? Or am I just delerious after reading the 250 pages of this thread, LOL?

[younglisa7]

Originally Posted by Isitmeorarethingsnuts?

What an amazing amazing thread. I wish I had been along for the ride but I just read the whole thing from start to finish. And now I've subscribed to your Florida flipper thread so I will be reading that next.

You are an awesome couple and deserve all the happiness in the world. I hope you take time to get some use of the pool table.

I tip my hat to you both...what an inspiration!!! Thank you for the amazing journey!

Welcome and thank you so much for saying such nice things. It is really appreciated.

Mike and I play a game called 101 on a regular basis and we love it. I even beat him occasionally

Originally Posted by kygman

Florida flipper thread?? I missed out on that one! Where is it? Looked through the Florida threads and couldn't find it.

Originally Posted by Isitmeorarethingsnuts?

Dang it. I thought I had subscibed to it and now I can't find it, I saw in a previous post that there was a thread about a house that Mike and Lisa flipped in Florida. Can anyone help, please? Or am I just delerious after reading the 250 pages of this thread, LOL?

Here is the link:
Our Flip House......A Weekly Story

I will be starting another one after I catch up on our story here in TN. Still trying to figure out the pictures

[kygman]

Oops! My bad! I HAVE read this one but it's been a while. Guess my CRS disease (Can't Remember S**t) is kicking into high gear. lol

[younglisa7]

Good morning everyone. It is going to be an absolutely beautiful day today in the TN mountains It has been a wonderful winter.

Finally....I am here because I owe you our last story from 2011. So let me take you back and I will show you what we did.


9-25-11
I have to start off by showing you a picture that I think is pretty cool. We get so many great pictures here.




9-26-11
It is a beautiful morning the next day!!!




9-30-11
Ok...today is a big day for us. Mike and I are going to seal the whole driveway that was paved our first year here. It is about 600 feet plus the curbs. We start off by doing the curbs first. We finally have a system for that. Mike and I work together. One of us pours some of the sealer onto the tops of the curbs in a 5 foot section. Then we both brush the sealer onto the curbs. We worked our way down one side of the driveway and then back up the other.


Now it's time for the driveway. We have a total of 12 five gallon buckets of sealer. We are ready to go. We have to line the buckets going down the drive. Once we put the sealer on, we cannot walk back up it for a few days.



Today is a much cooler day than when we tried to do the sealing at the top. It is making this job much easier. Mike and I work together the whole way down. He takes the left side and I take the right side.

Mike coming around our curve.



We are involved now...and no time for any breaks. We just have to keep rolling until we have no more buckets left.

Almost done



Woo hoo...we have no more sealer for the year. We are done



Wow..it looks so clean. Now if we can just keep the cows off, lol. Here ae some pictures of the finished job.


The top portion with the new electric fence in place.



The new fence going our gate. I miss this view right now.



10-3-11
We have one small section of the old white electric fence that goes around the rock. Mike wants to replace that with the silver wire so the fence is less noticeable.



We have to take out the old white fence first so we can fix it. Here is Mike cutting a piece of rebar down. We can't get it out of the ground.



I go down and use the remover to take to old T-posts. We are going to use up the smaller rebar for the new fence. At some point we will fence off the whole driveway and the steepest rock section to keep the cows off


Mike is painting the rebar. Of course we have to make everything match



We made it down one side and back around the curved rock area with the new wire. Now we have to splice the two wires together.

Mike holds the two wires together while I pull for him. Then he puts the splice on.



Then he uses the crimper to squeeze it tight.



We are done with the first section of driveway. Hopefully the cows will not get through and make a mess of it.



That was our last planned job of the year. Now we are on cleaning up mode. The machines have to be emptied, cleaned and then stored. We won't be using the tractor, mower, weed eater, or any other equipment until next year when we get back from FL.


10-7-11
Today we took a ride over to Jimmy's property. He rented a really cool machine and Mike and I want to see if we might be able to use it. It's a spreader used for grass seed and also hay. We followed his guys up to the top of a hill and watched the new machine. Very cool. You load up your hay, the machine chops it up and then it spits it out. It makes seeding a rough hill much easier to do.

Check it out.


I love seeing things like that. Machinery is so amazing.


Mike and I picked up some more rebar. He wants us to get a jump on next year's sealing job. We add the poles 25 feet apart on both sides of the driveway. Then we paint them green. We won't put the wire up until next spring. We want the cows to get used to going around the driveway in small doses.


Here is Mike pounding in a pole for next year's fence.



And of course, our supervisor Niki is making sure we dour jobs right, lol.



Once all of the rebar is on and painted we have to add the clips that will hold the electric wire.



That is it. We are done with the work for the year. Now it's just time for us to prep to go to FL to work on some real estate there.


10-12-11
Our last picture for the Fall.




I hope you all enjoyed our last story of the year. As many of you know...we are back home on TN Mike and I have been very busy since we have been back...and we plan on staying here next winter also Mike would love to get some farm animals...we'll see. Chickens would be cool Anyway, we can't do anything like that until spring...if we do it at all. Just dreaming and planning some more.


It's good to be back and I will write when we have done something around the place. Have a wonderful week and I will see you soon.

BTW, thank you to some other wonderful people on CD who helped me figure out how to post this story with pictures on my new Apple

[NCN]

Lisa, we have to go to water range of motion and weight room right now. I will get back here later and view the pictures. I have friends, many friends, in the area where you live and we will all be getting together some time soon I hope. I will let you know about it so you can join us in Boone or Blowing Rock if you want to. You are a lot younger than most of us though.

[cassy1]

Great story as usual Lisa! I love your pictures and view, I can smell the freshness already!

[kygman]

I've seen another good way of spreading grass seed. What Jimmy has is very handy for around farms. But the highway department contracted a truck with a 1000 gallon tank that was filled with water and grass seed. There were some rights of way that we sprayed perennial flower seeds the same way. Then the straw blower was hooked to a dump truck full of bales of hay. Covers a pretty good distance!
Oops! Forgot to tell you...welcome back!!

[FarmerGreen]

I haven't been here in awhile! Glad to see the story continues! Can't wait to catch up.

[vacation bound]

Hi lisa, glad to hear you are back safe in TN. the driveway looks great!! sounds like all in well in the Lisa, Mike and Nicki world. Stay warm up there.