A
BRITE VALLEY PRODUCTION
Last Updated October 10, 1997
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The ranch house that we moved into in January, 1996 after buying Rocking
Horse Ranch is little more than a cottage. It has a downstairs of
about 800 square feet and up the steep and narrow stairs is a 
finished
attic style area of about 350 square feet. There were very few modern conveniences
(such as central heating or washer and dryer hookups) and we knew from
the beginning that we would have to put a lot of effort into making our
new home comfortable for everyday living. One of the first things we did
this spring was to install an old fashioned shower
fixture in the claw foot tub that was already in our bathroom. We
still have only one bathroom, and it's still very small, but we feel like
our new shower is a luxury. 
The
second project we tackled was putting washer and dryer hookups in our community
building. What, I hear you ask, is a community
building? Well, I really don't know how the name came to be, but Paul says
the little shed smells just like a building on his grandpa's farm that
was called the community building. So there you have it. We got the washer
hooked up in August 1996, but we are still working on putting in an underground
gas line from the propane tank to the community building for the dryer.
It will be a little chilly out there in the winter, but it sure beats going
to the Laundromat! I tried hanging the clothes outside, but who wants to
wear "stiff as a board" jeans? Our third concession to modernity
was the central heating system we
had installed the first week in September. Our little house had been heated
only with one 
huge
fireplace in the living room and one electric baseboard heater in the bedroom.
Heating with the first was messy and time consuming, and heating with the
second was expensive. So we asked around for an HVAC contractor who was
good at doing, shall we say, unusual jobs, since we knew that putting central
heat in a small house that wasn't designed for it would be difficult. We
found just the fellow and he did a great job, although I think it looks
a bit like the furnace from outer space. But this winter our heat will
come on at the flip of a switch and the trips to the wood pile will merely
be for creating that cozy atmosphere.
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