Disher Family Fodder
Last night we had dinner with Linda, my other daughter. We now finally have some photos of her in the gallery.
She came up and met us at Olive garden after Molly’s Gymnastics. It was dinner for 9. It also happened to be the day before Eric’s 21’st birthday so we got them to sing for him.
My mother finally got to deliver Linda’s Christmas presents. A good time was had by all.
And as always, Olive Garden beat left-overs any day.
Well, we seem to be making progress.
We finally got to sit down with them and get our first wave at pricing for the 24×30 barn. It was about what we expected. We made some changes to the design which took another couple days.
We changed the sliders to a single door to use less hardware and get two of them so we can drive through. We also opted to go bigger and go with sissor trusses for more head room.
This pricing was also very good. We’re now in the final stages which includes final drawings and pricing for a couple of installation options. Hopefully finding some guys that need work (perhaps from AK Steel since they don’t have a lot to do).
I’m not sure how much of this I want to do myself. I know I don’t want to level the ground or set the initial poles. I want someone that knows what they are doing for that. Maybe Uncle Mike.
Well once again we’ve started down this path.
I spent Saturday morning laying out and marking the field for our first pasture. After dropping Michael off at work I headed to Lowes and picked up some stakes, some marking paint and string. (You know that highly visible string that you can use once than it just gets itself in a knot?) I had some but, well, it was already in a knot.
On the way home I stopped by Halsey-Meyers Lumber and started the process of putting the Barn Kit together, or at least getting the quote. 24×30, 14″ tall, plain barn, no overhang or eves to save a little. Going with the wrap instead of insulation, we can always put a ceiling in it later.
For starters this will just be a run-in for the horses. We might do temporary stalls, we’ll see. Stalls will come later, or sooner depending upon the budget.
Marria helped me lay it out out the field and mark off the location of where we think we’ll put the barn. We’re in Butler Co., outside of City limits (yeah), this is aggricultrual so no stinkin permits will be needed.
We layed this out to get a number of the posts we’ll need to get a cost for the fencing. We’re talking standard wire/mesh “Horse” Fence something like: RedBrand KeepSafe HorseFence allthough we’ll put a sight board across the top.
Current issues are: (a) I don’t have a tractor really, so fence stretching isn’t going to be any fun. (b) I don’t have a tractor, which to add a post hole digger, so I’m going to have to beg, borrow, or rent something.
This is what we layed out. Rounded corners so the horses will feel safer and cant get trapped. Easy enough and doesn’t really cost anymore.
The 24×30 will give us room for (2) 12×10 stalls, though the horses wil be OUT most of the time, with room for a 3rd smaller stall (feed storage really) and a small tack room. A hallway to expand to another barn if need be later. Again we’re talking 2 horses here.
For those that know the property this is directly behind the house. For those that don’t, well you have no bearing what-so-ever. 😉
Maria was very helpful. We layed out the corner posts, or down one side, strung a line, then created a second line for marking with knots at 0′, 8-feet and 16 feet. She would start at 0 and I’d move and mark at 8 feet and 16 feet, then we’d slide down the line and she’d move to the next spot and we’d mark two more post locations.
It all went really well except for her getting marker paint on her new coat, but that’s what kids do. She’ll grow out of the coat.
We had fun. We Layed out the initial fence run, and then decided where we though we’d put the barn would really ruin the view, so we moved it.
I then created the visio (above).
Again we’re not sure how we’re going to pull this off yet, but it’s the current plan for this summers afairs.
Today Maggies team played a pretty tough team. A team from Finneytown to be exact in the championship game.
Her game was to start at 4pm. Now we have yet to be at a game all year that started on time but that’s beside the point.
We left the house at 3:10, it’s a 25 minute drive to get where we need to be. 30 minutes TOPS. Except for today.
We hopped on I-75 south and before we got to 129 cars were backedup, it was a parking lot. I figured, well the accident is probably at the 129 interchange or at Tylersville as it sometimes happens there. I’ll gut it out. Nope. I turned on the radio. You know 700 WLW, traffic and weather together on the 10’s. ALL DANG DAY on the week days when you don’t need it. Never when you do? And this Artemis system that we paid for (tax payers that is), what good is that? It took me over an hour to get from Tenton to Sharonville.
Flipping back and forth between 700 and 550, not a mention of this wreck which was actually much farther south between Cin-Day road and Union Center. Apparently it had been there since 11:30am.
Holy @#$%, why can’t they get that on the radio?
I bailed off at Tylersville once I got there but since this wreck had been happening since oh before noon, so had every other person who knew there way around, or thought they did. It was a mess.
But I digress. The game was close, The Eales were never behind (so I hear). We got there just before the half, and the team played very very well.
That FinneyTown team is coached well too, I give them a lot of credit. We only played our best girls for the most part (it was the championship game afterall, and by the looks of things they did the same).
This was a stark contrast to Maggies Soccer Experience where they won only one game and that was a mirracle.
We didn’t have a camera, so we don’t have any pictures of the champs. We’re hoping one of Maggies teamates will forward me a photo that they took.
Molly and Claudine are spending the night in Dublin. Molly has a meet tomorrow. She should do well. Especially since no one is there to see it.
The Lady Eagles escaped the quarter finals Saturday night in an exciting double overtime win!
Abbey was crushed as she had two opportunities to put the other team away at the foul line (that’s four shots at the basket). All four shots were great shots, but didn’t have enough luck on them to fall in the bucket.
No matter though, the Lady Eagles got it done for her!
This puts them in the Semi Finals next week, or maybe the Championship game if that was the Semi’s, and I’m all confused.
It was a blast!
Maggie again played well.