Wrapping Up 2012

We looked forward to 2012 for many, many years. We knew that 2012 was going to be a big year with Danial graduating, building our new house, selling our old house, moving, etc. Now that 2012 is over and we reflect back, it was a great year and pretty much everything turned out the way we had hoped and planned it would. We are living our dream on Farver Acres.

I thought I would catch up on a few items that wrapped up 2012 before we head in to 2013. The outside wood boiler is up and running and is pretty much completed, we have a few tuning items yet to do but the propane furnace has not come on in weeks now though we have had some pretty cold nights near 20 degrees.

With the boiler up and running, we are starting to use the wood we had previously cut and we make it a habit of going out every week to cut additional wood. My goal is to cut enough wood to get us through this season and also by spring, to have cut all the wood we will need for next year. Then going forward, in winter/spring, I will cut the following years wood to always be one year ahead.

We had our first Christmas in the house and the boys were here, just took down the lights, stockings, etc yesterday and plan to take the tree down and take it outside today.

We have started to finish the shop areas. Lorrie and I ran all the electrical power to all required locations and about 90% of all the exterior walls have been insulated. Over the next month we hope to get the ceiling in and the attic area insulated so we can then start heating those rooms with the boiler.

We are not done hunting, just put it on hold for the past 3-4 weeks with other projects/ priorities. We need to at least take a couple of more does for our grinding and to get us through the coming year.

More to come from time to time as we have things to report.

Since we will be cutting a lot of wood and getting it from way back in the property, we purchased a trailer that can be towed behind the ATV or Tractor. It has 4 wheel independent suspension, an electric dump bed and electric brakes.

This is in the utility room, these are all the pumps and water lines running out to each of the 8 heating zones we have. Five of them are turned on, the other 3 will be turned on once the shop areas are fully insulated. This room is always very warm, we keep the door open to let the heat out into the hallway!

First Christmas Tree on Farver Acres.

First Ice on the Pond since we moved in.

Electrical and Insulation nearly completed in "The Man Cave".

The back side of the cooler in The Man Cave. You can see the beer tap out of the back of the cooler. I plan to build a bar in this area, will start on that over the coming weeks.