Part of the Mustang gang that roams around Leadville Canyon off Hwy 34
January - snow, frozen ground & form lumber!
January - too cold for RV camping this time - 28º and 7 hours of daylight!
March - finally! - our restored Cessna 180 tail dragger
March - All the form lumber off &
Joe figuring out the next step!
March - now we start the drainage work around the foundation
March - drain pipe laid out west side
4/7 - gravel delivered, we get to move around foundation before backfilling
4/7 - plastic water barrier under drain pipe, then pipe,gravel,drain cloth to top
4/7 - drain cloth over gravel
4/7 - now fill it all in with dirt
4/28 - drainage ditch on east side (standing inside building stem wall!)
4/28 - packing down backfilled dirt
4/29 - tiny white flowers
5/5 - Cedarville Airport with Warner Mtns, Diana, 5KS and 91 Dodge work truck
5/6 - Joe working on flashing
and mud sills
Our weather station - no national weather service covers this area!
5/7 - What have we been doing for the past year?
May - White Pine Ranch cows
(In NV, not fenced land is open range)
6/7 - Spring lupin and rabbit brush
6/9 - Diana spreading gravel over vapor barrier for eventual floor
6/9 - Joe doing the same (plastic, 3” gravel, then can pour concrete)
6/9 - more throwing gravel!
6/16 - ramp for tractor
over south stem wall
6/16 - dumping gravel, then will compact it with Wacker Compactor- in middle
6/16 - Jake compacting gravel for concrete slab pour
6/16 - more readying for slab concrete pour - wall support footing forms
6/24 - slab area almost ready for concrete! (except for pex & rebar!)
July - Joe, Omar and 5KS
(actually at Spanish Springs N86)
7/8 - rebar and pex tubing layed out, shower pan forms & drains - lower bath
7/11 - corner showing flashing/mudsill on stem wall & void cap for inside seam
7/12 - Mark supervising
1st slab concrete pour (6:30 AM!)
7/12 - still pouring & spreading
7/12 - Tom smoothing concrete with his bull float
7/12 - Last 1/4 of 1st half of slab pour
7/12 - Tom finishing slab with power trowel (it’s now 9:15 AM!)
7/13 - 2nd slab pour - last piece!
Yay!!!
7/13 - darker concrete is wet 2nd pour, lighter is yesterday’s pour
7/13 - Joe finishing concrete poured in battery box (for PV system)
Battery box finished (except for lid)
7/13 - the Great Basin high desert has really neat skies!
7/14 - an excursion to see . . . .
ROCKS!
7/15 - 6:08AM breakfast!
7/28 - Diana & Vanessa
7/28 - Vanessa & Omar making shades
7/29 - finished shades for the lunchroom!
7/29 - Omar and Vanessa tooling around the ranch!
7/30 - 8AM - Omar, Diana, Joe
Ready to leave for home(s)
7/30 2 of our favorite Mustangs from Leadville Canyon
8/5 - moving trusses to slab near their final spots
8/5 - readying trusses for lifting
9/8 - lifting 1st column!
9/8 - Diana and 1st column
9/10 - sunset - south & north wall columns up with some OSB
9/11 - setting up scaffolding so we can get trusses & end wall columns up
9/11 - SW corner columns
9/11 - Sean and Joe moving more columns
9/12 - moving 1st truss with rented extendable forklift
9/12 - 1st truss on the way
9/12 - almost there (Sean waiting by column to bolt down)
9/12 - 1st truss up and bolted down!
9/12 - 2nd truss on its way
9/12 - Sunset from gravel pit
9/13 - all 3 trusses up and 2 wooden purlins for bracing them
9/13 - Jake attaching east end columns
9/13 - Sean & Jake securing purlins
9/16 - All steel trusses/columns up and bolted together!
9/16 - view of the building from the west
9/30 - Jake and Sean attaching purlins and blocking 25’ from the ground!
10/7 - Overlooking Central Lake (dry)
(building shell in middle)
10/7 - Margaret & Dave for brunch
and a visit
11/23 - High Rock Canyon Mustang
Joe & Diana on a little excursion
11/23 - High Rock Canyon
(can you imagine wagon trains here?)
11/25 - Diana helping Joe put up OSB
on southeast walls
11/25 - Joe up ladder readying 2x6’s for OSB (east wall)
