Creeker's Weekend Accomplishments
2 Oct 2017
Good Morning Everyone,
Been a very busy week at the day job and oncall wasn't too bad. Got a little shop time this weekend and that meant a bit more progress on the king size bed frame construction. I also found out last week that I have very severe sleep apnea. They said I have an average of 64 events every hour of sleep as well as my blood oxygen level getting below 68% while sleeping. I told them that I was exhausted every morning when I woke up and they said that it wasn't hard to see why I was tired all the time. CPAP appears to be in my very near future to see if that will help improve my sleep and my general health.
If you have experiencing any rain? Please send some my way. We truly need some rain!!
That's it for me, so what did YOU do this past weekend?
Best of weeks to you all!
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Fencing: the pasture, not the sport
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Brian Henderson
Just have to dig a trench to bury conduit in to run wiring out to the koi pond.
I've always wanted a koi pond! A friend had one and I almost made one but just never found a Round TUIT. I did dig a little pond behind the barn with my tractor and bobcat and stocked it with bluegill. I big turtle soon moved in - I wonder if there are any little bluegill left now!
I am celebrating!! After weeks of effort I finally finished rebuilding the fence around the horse pasture!
A girl who works with the horses here has been teaching the big gelding Cole and the mare Sienna to jump.
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Then Cole decided he should practice on the pasture fence. I moved the horses to a dry lot by the barn while I ripped out the fence and built a taller one. The fence is now done! If you have never experienced the joy of fencing even a simple fence is a lot of work - this one is nearly 2000 ft of electric fence, wooden posts at key points, 175 metal posts pounded into the ground by hand, three gates, a trench dug to span each gate with undergound cable, three strands on the fence: conductive rope and tape and solid wire in some places for strength.
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I like to use the white tape since one horse is blind and MAYBE he can see light/dark - and if he runs into it maybe he won't get hurt too much. (If the tape looks twisted in the view from the deck it's because it is - the twist keeps it from fluttering in the wind and wearing out prematurely.)
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So nice to get it done. Now I have no excuse for slacking and can get back to work!
JKJ