North Dakota

So Ryan is working hard in North Dakota for the next two months and while he is away I thought I would post some of the progress that he has made and steal the pictures he has posted on facebook and keep records of it.  I am missing him like crazy and he has already been gone for about thirty days.  I am praying that the next thirty will fly by and everything on his end will go smoothly and fast.

  On his way tot North Dakota they had a very interesting trip.  I felt so bad for him that it took so long and they had so many problems.  They left Preston a lot later than they had hoped because it took a lot longer getting the truck all loaded and packing a few last minute items.  When they got on the road the Person going with them (Napps) were driving a motor home and they blew a tire in Pocatello.  So they all jumped in together and drove to almost every single tire store trying to find a tire that would fit on the vehicle.  They finally found one that only had two tires left so they bought them both and were on their way.  When they hit Montana the Napp Vehicle blew another tire..... so they got it fixed (thank goodness they bought two tires) and started on the way again when they heard a huge pop sound and then smoke from their own truck.  They thought they had blown a tire also and it was very late.  They checked everything out and it was only a gasket that was not put on tight and was a very easy fix.  They thought they would arrive at the sight at 10 or 11:00 p.m. but had to drive all night and arrived around 9:00 a.m. and then had so much work to do they didn't get to go to sleep until that night at 10:00 p.m.  Not the best 48 hrs. I am sure.

 So the order of the pictures are not right and I tried my best to just copy and past from his own words what was going on. 

Overview of property at dusk. Spooked up about 16 pheasants on drive up to top corner

My toiletry services provider for the next 60 days

Day 1 of ND project. aug 9 2012

 Blake belnap and crew hard at work setting up second buildings walls

Plumbers going to town

Day two of ND project. I think the first truck driver stopped for dinner in route cuz the mud was almost too stiff to put in JBars after only pouring 180 feet of footings. It was a tense 30 minutes. Second truck was much better so that saved us

The three hombre's in their sombreros

 First pour of the day

One down 9 to go

 Dan giving Denton the business

 The oil well next to us had been down since we got here buy they fired it up Saturday and the started burning off the excess gas, we're going to use it to roast hot dogs

 Only middle two slabs left on the lower building

 Blair and crew getting some walls up

 Poured a sidewalk