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| Dinga on a Winter run 2009 |
Then: February 2009
Now that MAX is finally working, we can get back to our projects inside the house. JB is wiring the freestanding kitchen counter so we will have two electrical outlets in it. That took about a week and then we finally get to put up the tongue-in-groove pine on the back of the counters. It looks great!
The best news is that the outside water pump works again. I guess the warm weather thawed out the ground enough to melt the ice in the pipe.
Our next inside project is to put up the kitchen cupboard above the stove that will also hold the hood with the fan and light. JB nails in the bracing and then we put up the short six foot long pine wall behind the stove. Got the wall, cupboard and hood all installed, and it looks great, too! Just like a real house. . .
Mid-February it starts snowing again and JB needs to use the snow blower. But it's not enough to interfere with our next project of wiring the loft so we can plug in lights and our computers. He did take a day for driving MAX down to groom the road, with Dinga running along side. Actually running everywhere except along side! We drive 4 miles and she runs 10.
Of course while we are doing all these things, we are also cooking home made soups and stews, and baking breads. Oh my! These all seem to taste so much better up here. And I am really going to have to be active come Spring in order to work them all off.
Even though it snowed a lot the last two weeks of the month, the water pump did not freeze up again. And the snow is beautiful. I love to curl up on the couch with a cup of cocoa, a fire in the wood stove, and watch it gently fall. Everything is so quiet. And so white.
Now: June 28, 2011
And right now, everything is so green and alive with the sounds of Summer. You don't realize exactly how quiet Winter is until the birds start returning in the Spring.
Yesterday was nice and cool, so it was perfect for working on the deck. We installed several more rows of decking, and I think we have somehow solved the problem of missing the joists with the screws. Except when the joists are not straight. We do have a couple with quite a curve in them. But we are a little more than a third of the way done with the decking. For a little while, when JB was working on the deck, I started cutting branch wood and got three wheel barrows full cut and stacked.
Larry and Elsie came up for a visit in the evening and brought us some more fresh eggs. Those eggs are so good and taste so much better than store bought. They are a rainbow of colors from white and brown to teal green. They gave some of the green ones to a friend of theirs who has a little boy. He was so disappointed when they cracked one open and it wasn't green inside!
Tomorrow JB is going to town to finally get new tires for his Jeep Wrangler. He will definitely need them next week as he is going to Seattle on July 5 to be with his Mom for two weeks while his brother goes on vacation. She lives with one of his younger brothers, and none of us want her to be alone for that long. She will be 90 years old in September and is still going strong. He will be taking her to art class and grocery shopping. She also really enjoys going out to eat, so I'm sure they will be doing a lot of that, too.
We are having our annual 4th of July family picnic next weekend, and although several of our regulars will not be able to attend, there should be eight of us. Hopefully it will be a little warmer than last year when we all had to wear our heavy jackets, and put a fire in the wood stove.
Ruby, we love you and will miss you very much. . .
Now that MAX is finally working, we can get back to our projects inside the house. JB is wiring the freestanding kitchen counter so we will have two electrical outlets in it. That took about a week and then we finally get to put up the tongue-in-groove pine on the back of the counters. It looks great!
The best news is that the outside water pump works again. I guess the warm weather thawed out the ground enough to melt the ice in the pipe.
Our next inside project is to put up the kitchen cupboard above the stove that will also hold the hood with the fan and light. JB nails in the bracing and then we put up the short six foot long pine wall behind the stove. Got the wall, cupboard and hood all installed, and it looks great, too! Just like a real house. . .
Mid-February it starts snowing again and JB needs to use the snow blower. But it's not enough to interfere with our next project of wiring the loft so we can plug in lights and our computers. He did take a day for driving MAX down to groom the road, with Dinga running along side. Actually running everywhere except along side! We drive 4 miles and she runs 10.
Of course while we are doing all these things, we are also cooking home made soups and stews, and baking breads. Oh my! These all seem to taste so much better up here. And I am really going to have to be active come Spring in order to work them all off.
Even though it snowed a lot the last two weeks of the month, the water pump did not freeze up again. And the snow is beautiful. I love to curl up on the couch with a cup of cocoa, a fire in the wood stove, and watch it gently fall. Everything is so quiet. And so white.
Now: June 28, 2011
And right now, everything is so green and alive with the sounds of Summer. You don't realize exactly how quiet Winter is until the birds start returning in the Spring.
Yesterday was nice and cool, so it was perfect for working on the deck. We installed several more rows of decking, and I think we have somehow solved the problem of missing the joists with the screws. Except when the joists are not straight. We do have a couple with quite a curve in them. But we are a little more than a third of the way done with the decking. For a little while, when JB was working on the deck, I started cutting branch wood and got three wheel barrows full cut and stacked.
Larry and Elsie came up for a visit in the evening and brought us some more fresh eggs. Those eggs are so good and taste so much better than store bought. They are a rainbow of colors from white and brown to teal green. They gave some of the green ones to a friend of theirs who has a little boy. He was so disappointed when they cracked one open and it wasn't green inside!
Tomorrow JB is going to town to finally get new tires for his Jeep Wrangler. He will definitely need them next week as he is going to Seattle on July 5 to be with his Mom for two weeks while his brother goes on vacation. She lives with one of his younger brothers, and none of us want her to be alone for that long. She will be 90 years old in September and is still going strong. He will be taking her to art class and grocery shopping. She also really enjoys going out to eat, so I'm sure they will be doing a lot of that, too.
We are having our annual 4th of July family picnic next weekend, and although several of our regulars will not be able to attend, there should be eight of us. Hopefully it will be a little warmer than last year when we all had to wear our heavy jackets, and put a fire in the wood stove.
Ruby, we love you and will miss you very much. . .
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