Our fearless leaders input won't matter. These guys a very serious about the wind farms. The top two companies in the area are signing 30+ year contracts for the turbins, maintance facilities etc. You can't find a place to rent for 40 miles, and the asking prices for homes for sale are way higher than other areas of Oregon. Wind generated power is here to stay.

I too am thinking seriously about retirement income.............

 

Where's that wind farm, Don?

Pop

 

Congratulations! It's a good feeling to get a new place.

 

Which one? To the west of me is the one that Snowbunny works for, and to the north is the Sheppards Flat project. We have a couple on the radar site, and at night all you can see is a sea of red flashing lights. The new Sheppards wind farm is adding almost 400 more turbines. Like I said they are here to stay.

Wind power in Oregon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

Wow! I had no idea of the scope of this.

Wow!

Pop

 

The 3 thousand acre ranch I've been living on for the past 2 years was just sold this summer for 2.8 million. Guess what, it's getting 25 turbines that pay $30,000 each per year...........Thats $750,000 PER YEAR........Not a bad deal!

If I can buy a couple of houses and make some money in my old age, why not......

 

Darn I live in Oregon and didn't know wind power was such a big deal here!

 

Yep, and guess where 90 percent of the power goes to.............You guessed it, California!
They are the only ones that can afford the higher cost of wind power.

We still use the cheap power from the Columbia River Dams.

 

Congrats on the new place Don! I've been helping my dad clear his property so that he can have the fire marshall and everybody else come out and approve the land for a new mobile. Got 90% cleared so hopefully soon the new house will be on the way!!

 

While you have the walls inside unfinished is a good time to run blocking between the studs as fire-breaks (excellent for insurance premium cuts) and run conduits for wiring instead of just plain wire.

I hope you run seperate lines for DSL connections to a common center where they can be joined or run into a router. I'd wire it for a speaker system too, and run at least one extra coax cable to each room to make sure future updates can be done easily.

A line drop conduit from the attic down to each room would make a lot of later mods easier...


(Just thinkin' off the top of my little punkin' haid)

 

Already there Dutch! I'm gonna run cables everywhere. and wire the bedrooms, office, etc for audio. Both bedrooms, and the open living-room/dining-room will be wired for surround sound and they will have built-in cabinets down one wall with raised inset locations for the TVs.


I've got enough material saved to put a nice roofed over deck across half the back of the house and I can finally install my hot tub I bought last summer........

Having the ability to do anything inside while it's open is a blessing I'm not going to treat lightly............

 

DAMMIT! It ain't fair...
Can I come live at your house?????

(snikkkerrrezzz)

 

There's a two bedroom right next door for 30 grand, and I'll share the shop.........Left yet!

 

Dutch would sure make a great neighbor!

As Horace Greeley once said........

Pop

 

I think if Dutch and I spent much time in a shop together the world couldn't handle it........lol