Here are photos of our property in Hillsboro, MO. We call it Waterfall after the road its on. This is the main parking area when we have guests. A small bottom gathering area. The road down to the big river. We’ve been working on clearing out the honeysuckle. Its big and open where we’ve done … Continue reading “Waterfall – 8/5/2021”
Sonora and I went out to Waterfall to get out of the house. There, she worked on a fire to burn honeysuckle. With her keeping the fire going, I spent my time root docking honeysuckle. This helps our woods get clear and provides wood for the fire. Bringing it up to be burnt! We had … Continue reading “Waterfall Root Docking – 11/22/2020”
Danelle went out to Waterfall today to meet up with a friend, Jay Doty who is doing some work for us. But first, Danelle found a Wheel bug and managed to get a fantastic photo of it on the deck. She wants you to notice the ridges just behind its head. No back to her … Continue reading “Waterfall and Root Docking – 10/22/2020”
Sometimes you just go outside to have fun. We often go to waterfall and end up just working on it. Okay, we may have dome some minor work like sealing the roof and mowing.Sonora even pitched in! Eventually, it was time to do our favorite thing, have a big fire. Sonora chopped some wood to … Continue reading “Waterfall – 3/1/2020”
Having property is nice, but its also a lot of work. If you have improvements, then they have to be maintained. In our case, we were out there, caulking to keep the rain from rotting everything out. Ahh, Danelle sitting on the job. I’m probably in trouble based on the look she is giving me. … Continue reading “Waterfall – 11/17/2019”
We went out to Waterfall today. I’ve talked about the bathroom situation, but never really photographed it. So, here is our fancy outhouse… Yep, there is no door. It hasn’t been a problem yet as people don’t generally want to hang out here 🙂 Looking down the trail at our place. Looking uphill to our … Continue reading “Waterfall – 1/6/2019”
We came out to waterfall to do some work today. All four of us came out. I brought the circular saw and the generator, Danelle brought the wire brush and some spray paint. After the requisite mowing/weed wacking, had the place cleared out in no time and were ready for the actual tasks. Corvin and … Continue reading “Waterfall – 10/7/2018”
It seems like its a never ending job to mix and pour concrete out at waterfall. This time, its a landing pad for the stairs we want to put in for the deck. Today’s job is 400 pounds of concrete (plus the water its mixed with). You can see from the bucket above that there … Continue reading “Concrete at Waterfall – 9/1/2018”
We finally made a trip out to Waterfall to open it up for the year. It sounds way more fancy than what it is. What it really means is that Danelle and I are going out there to work. We’ll get water in the tank, install the new sink and hose to make the water … Continue reading “Waterfall Season Opening – 5/5/2018”
We contracted our neighbor Jonathan to come out to our property and build a deck. I’ve tried and failed to build stuff out there to date. This was our first visit out there to see his finished work. Jonathan pointed out that he would have performed more finishing work on the deck if we wanted. … Continue reading “Waterfall Deck – 9/17/2017”