After a few last minute chores, I locked up one last time and headed out. There is no big hurry to get where I am going but I do want to enjoy the last few days of fall weather. Winter is coming and the leaves are getting heavy with color. We didn’t get much fall foliage this year so I…
The season has come to an end. I have done as much as I can. Eeerttt!!!! (record scratch) That is a big ol’ lie. There is plenty to do, I am just being lazy. Conveniently, the weatherman is saying winter is brewing. Once the road gets wet, I have to hike the mile in and out with whatever I decided…
Last month was a winner in that I hit a milestone on making my property more than a junk yard with a view. The concrete for the cabin footer was poured. One win is not a streak so I decided to go for 2 and build the basement walls this year. I had just finished multiple trips to get all…
It seems rare these days that the word literally is used correctly so in my attempt to save the English language, here you go….I am happy to say that I literally have nowhere to go but up from here. I mentioned in my previous post the inspector gave me the go ahead to pour the cabin footing. A short lived…
The Spring mud has turned to Summer dust but that and an extra 30° F, there is not much progress to report. Working hard and getting dirty, working hard, just not much progress. Ugh!!! I did get the cabin footing forms placed, rebar bent and tied together and the end result inspected and approved, Then…. I did it again!!!!!. The…
All of my whining about the cold wet Spring here seems to have paid off. Albeit, a little tentatively, Summer finally arrived with a week of sunshine and temps over 70’s and no humidity. There was even one day of 90+.Whoo Hoo!!!. back to 60’s and seventies, but that works for me. I got the approval of my building permit…
If April showers bring May Flowers, May flowers are probably pretty pissed. They have been stymied by May’s cold wet weather. The people that keep track are reporting that Seattle has recorded its wettest May since 1948. The numbers aren’t official, but at last count, Seattle was within a few drops of hitting 4” of rain in May. Usually the…
If April showers bring May flowers, What does April snow bring? April started out looking like we were going to have a short spring and roll right into summer. The snow had all melted out and the ground dried up enough that I was able to drive into camp two weeks earlier than last year. That is critical to…
Of course the snow drought ended the day I started to head back to Washington. And of course, the snow started falling just as I had the chance to avoid it at the intersection of shortcut and long way around. Of course I took the shortcut over a 7000 foot pass into Idaho’s Bitterroot mountains. If it was good enough…
I headed south from Great Falls to get to my next AirBnB in Dillon, Montana. I took the back roads because I had plenty of time before check-in and I wanted to revisit the historical town of Virginia City, the capital of the Montana Territory back in the 1860’s. When gold was found nearby, the town grew to over 10,000…