It's the farm in front of our farm. We were landlocked and this gives us road
frontage. It was so cheap so we kinda of couldn't not buy it.
This land was all originally bought by my great, great, great, great,
grandfather (my great grand mother's great grandfather) in about 1850. His
son-in-law was a kind of neerdowell who didn't really want to work and would
sell off land any time he needed money. The family started with something like
600 acres but by the time I came along we were down to just over 200. The
larger portion of that (140) went to my dad's cousin Jane over on the other
side of the river. We ended up with the smallest, worst, piece of land the
family ever owned.
So interestingly we're kind of buying family land back.
-Curt
On Sunday, September 5, 2021, 02:52:21 PM EDT, Dwight Giles
<dwight.gi...@gmail.com> wrote:
curt,remind me was this in your family? is it near the camp? great progress.
On Sun, Sep 5, 2021, 12:43 PM Curt Raymond via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
wrote:
We just returned from a week up north. This was a "working vacation" which is
to say we did a lot of work up there and I actually hadn't taken the week off
from my real job so I was doing that too.
I wanted to jack up the enclosed porch on the front of the Cushman house, you
might remember our 1880-1920s era farm house on the northern estate. The porch
had sagged real bad and allowed water to pool in front of the door which rotted
out the sill. Unfortunately we found that the rot actually extended into the
whole south end of beam and a bunch of the floor. I managed to save the north
end of the beam but had to splice in 174" of new wood. The existing beam was 6"
x 6", I ended up putting in 4x 2"x8" to make up the thickness and then putting
a 4 foot splice onto the existing beam. I still need to put an outside splice
but I ran out of time.
Pictures and more details:
https://curtsotherblog.blogspot.com/2021/09/things-have-escallated.html
-Curt
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