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Friday Afternoon Ramblings

May 20, 2011 D.A. Adams 1 Comment

I’m probably going to take the next week off from the farm in order to finish polishing book three. Editing and proofreading take a tremendous amount of concentration for me, and I want this book to be the best I can make it. I hate to lose a little momentum at the farm, but right now, the book has to take priority.

My oldest niece graduates from high school tonight. She’s officially all grown up, at least in her mind, anyway. She starts WSCC in the fall, but I’m not sure what she is going to study. I’m very proud of her and hope that she finds success in this world, whatever she defines as success for herself. It’s hard to believe that she’s already through grade school. It seems like just a few days ago that I had come home from Memphis after my college graduation and was tossing her around on her bed while she at two didn’t know whether to be terrified or excited by it. She stole my heart that day.

That’s all for now. I’ll post a new update on book three early next week.

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Thursday Morning Ramblings

May 19, 2011 D.A. Adams Leave a comment

Just to give an idea of the progress we’ve made, here are a couple of pictures from before. The two above are of the interior back corner before we started. There were two frames for rooms that had been put up and also a plethora of wood, molds, and junk that had been stored back there. The picture below shows what that corner looks like now. My apologies for the poor picture. All I had with me was my phone, and the lighting was poor yesterday. I’ll try to take a better picture soon.

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Wednesday Morning Ramblings

May 18, 2011 D.A. Adams Leave a comment

Drainage Ditch with Pipe — The drainage ditch behind the building before being filled in.

Excellent news on the building. The new drainage system, a variation of a French ditch, seems to be working. Despite the heavy rains yesterday, there was very little water inside the building, and what little water was there came from the area in the roof around the chimney. That’s a fairly easy fix and shouldn’t cost much money. I can’t even begin to express how good it feels that all of my hard work is paying off.

The picture above shows the pipe before the dirt was filled in. The one below shows the pipe covered with dirt and sections of brick over the drill holes for drainage. If you look at the black plastic on the wall, you’ll get an idea of just how much dirt was moved to fill it in. So far, it’s working exactly like we expected. There’s still some work to do on the ends to get the water flowing away from the building, but the bulk of the job is complete.

The building is coming together. soon, I’m going to start posting some of the before pictures to illustrate just how far we’ve come. Overall, I’m pleased with where we are. There’s still a lot to do, but with the momentum we have, I’m certain we’ll be successful.