Well we've been working very hard the past few days. We've had our fair share of disasters and successes though. On Tuesday we discovered our water had siphoned out of our tank so we had to run to Study Butte and bring back as much water as we could carry. Unfortunately, though, we don't own a transfer tank yet, so we had to fill up our two 7 gallon drinking containers, two 5 gallon water cooler tanks, and four 2 gallon cat litter bottles. Just enough to tide us over until we can move the tank onto our property and fill it back up to 250 gallons. Despite the water disaster, we were able to set all six of our 4x4 posts in concrete. Today we should begin hanging floor joists and we also want to paint the underside of the tongue & groove OSB flooring with oil based paint, in hopes that it will block water penetrating into the wood from condensation under the building, etc.
Our dog Sprocket is convinced that he owns about 20 square miles instead of 20 acres, and he likes to go exploring in the evening. Many other dogs around here are free range and quite friendly. We worry more about him finding a snake or running into coyotes, but I would like to put in an electric fence when we have enough money to spare so he won't wander off too far.
With Thanksgiving coming up, we will have celebrated our second major holiday in the desert, the first being Fourth of July. Soon we hope to have an address and mail/package delivery, but of course everything is a process and takes a bit of time. Pictures soon to come! Thanks for following us :)
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