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4 Tips on How to Find Cheap Land My wife has dreamed of living in one of the towns surrounding Pineview reservoir in Utah for quite some time. She loves it there because of the lake, the beautiful scenery and the cleaner air. Houses in those surrounding towns are not very cheap and neither isRead more

I would guess that by now you are tired of seeing posts about gun control vs pro guns and so on.  Rest assured this post will avoid those topics completely. First off I am saddened by this event and the many other school shootings that have taken place and I hope that those affected canRead more

My thoughts on being grateful sparked by this story: The other day we had some friends over to the house for a BBQ and while in the back yard enjoying ourselves one friend noticed that the area by our air conditioner was a little flooded.  I assumed the area was flooding because we had been runningRead more

I recently started reading a book called “The Happiness Advantage” by Shawn Achor and I wanted to share some thoughts I had around what I have read so far.  It is apparent in our society that we are focused on wealth and looks and being successful, so much so, that we often put our successRead more

Planning The Pole Barn Electrical Planning the pole barn electrical was quite a bit easier than the rest of the planning stages.  I first talked with a friend who did electrical work for a living to get an idea of what would be required and there were only a few things that were needed whichRead more

Planning The Pole Barn Siding Planning how the pole barn siding will piece together is a very important part of the planning stage.  I wish I had known a little better how the metal went together and what the exact dimensions of all the different pieces were.  I looked over the installation guides online toRead more

Planning the Pole Barn Framing Planning the pole barn framing seemed simple but there were several details that had to be planned for everything to come together nicely.  Some of the key elements were: Getting the posts in the right spot on the concrete The metal siding (partly done at the foundation planning stage) The garage door,Read more

Planning A Pole Barn Shed (an introduction) Hopefully if you are planning on designing and building a pole barn shed yourself this series of posts will help you avoid the same mistakes I made.  As a note the planning of each step was an iterative process of designing then redesigning till I got to the finalRead more