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The Mighty Merc – Front Locker Woes
Bit of a chicken or the egg situation I had going on with my front Spartan Locker. I’m not entirely sure what failed first, but, lots of stuff broke… kind of. This issue was a bit of a pain to track down an started on our last CO nearly a year ago, and was slowly getting worse. Everything would check fine when it was cold, but after being on the trail for a bit, the front locker would start acting…
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The Mighty Merc – 7th ORT – Flat Nasty Off Road 7-28-18
Now that construction is complete on the new place (well.. mostly) we felt well overdue for a trip to the woods. A friend picked a weekend at Flat Nasty, so we loaded up and rolled out. The kids were very excited to get to the park as ever since we had mentioned “Going to the Woods” a few days prior, they kept asking if it was time to go yet:
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Building a house – Not for the weak of heart! Finial Thoughts
So the question we get asked the most is, “Was it worth it to build the house yourself”. The answer is “Yes” but with some caveats.
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Building a house – Not for the weak of heart! Part 2
Rolling into 2018, things became a bit of a blur as I was pulling long days at work, then working with My dad in the evenings to keep the momentum going. Once the rough in Electrical work was completed, we started the long task of insulating the walls:
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Building a house – Not for the weak of heart! Part 1
After 12 years in our old house, we had finally out grown it. The with two kids taking up the other two bedrooms in our three bedroom house, The Wife was forced to work in the living room (She works from home). This was a less than ideal situation to say the least. The plain truth was the house that we had come to love was no longer working for us. We had been casually searching ever since our Son…