Propagation: Plant Propagation: The Basics Summer 2016, 3 by oxdriftgardener

oxdriftgardener wrote:
Time for the reveal and a little HISTORY 101

Staining in the back yard is now complete so that all wood structures front and back that have been built at many different times are all one colour. Oh I love retirement!
It\'s a wonder I still have a wife. I put her through a lot in the earlier years. One of you recently said something about her being a keeper. Believe it was Debra. After what she has been through for 40 years and how comfortable things have become she would be crazy to get rid of me now. I took her back to the PIONEER DAYS for a number of years. We purchased this vacant 40 acre parcel of land, which was then 1/4 mile from any hydro electric source, the fall we got married. The next year we put in a power line, cleared the lot, put in a driveway and built the garage. Oh yeah, forgot to mention that during our first winter I took out a saw log permit and cut all the logs to build the house and garage. Then I spent about a month in the spring helping an old timer with a very antique sawmill cut all the logs into lumber. In the fall while we were building the garage we pitched a tent under that large spruce tree to the right of the house in the second picture. Every couple days we would go into town for a shower at our apartment. Keep in mind that when we were building the garage we still had no electricity or a generator so all cutting was done with the chainsaw. In late September, still with no power or water we moved into the garage. I will never forget how sick to my stomach I felt the first week after we moved in. I was on holidays by myself and seeing Wendy go off to work in the morning without having a curling iron or anything else that power gives made say to myself \"what the h--- have you done Keith\". We finally got power about a week before Christmas that year but there would be no running water until about 6 months or more after we moved in to the house. By the time we started house construction the next spring Wendy was pregnant so I lost my construction helper so I had to hire a 16 year old neighbour as my right hand whenever I needed help. I occasionally remind my oldest daughter that she was conceived in the garage.
Looking back it was worth while to do it that way ONCE but had I built a second house I certainly would not have done the same or I would have been on my own. The house was bare bones when we moved in and we just finished things as we could afford. All those sacrifices made it possible to own what we had debt free in 5 years. There was a major Reno in 2005 ie new siding, shingles, and windows again with our own hands. By now I think I have earned \"early retirement \"
Keith