Oct 18, 2013 Outdoor Kitchens

Jesse's deer leg.

Wednesday 10/16.  RJ stayed and talked til 10:30 am.  By then the overcast had disappeared into a blue sky for another phenomenal Fall day.  I have run out of adjectives for the brilliant colors Up Here.  They are just in patches but the light greens are now bright yellow; the yellows now gold; the golds now rust and orange; the reds now flaming.  And all against a dark evergreen backdrop.  I love this time of year!

Did the dishes and ran the well pump.  We are back up to 25+ inches, so all is good.

After lunch we drove down to RJ's cabin to see the outdoor kitchen he is building by redesigning his outdoor fireplace.  That is definitely one of our projects for next year at Rose Camp.  So we will be collecting rocks of all sizes, and there are plenty of them Up Here.  RJ will actually be building it.

Countryside magazine has another great issue.  I particularly like the letter entitled "Changing your perspective can change your life."  Lots of good articles, although I hope I never have to pluck a chicken or a duck.

No work today, other than dishes and bringing in wood.  How nice!  But I did spend 45 minutes on the phone with Bank of America regarding a missed payment on our tractor that I received a call about while down at RJ's.  Their customer service people were nice, but not at all helpful and no one would admit what was obviously their error.

We watched the movie WALL-E last night.  One we had somehow missed.  It is so cute!  This evening we started the second season of True Blood.

Thursday 10/17.  Another clear, Fall day and 33.  First thing I did was call  Agricredit about the missed payment.  I have scheduled it to be paid today.  The wonderful woman in their accounting department just said, "Oh, that happens.  No problem."  

We spent the morning inside cleaning, defrosting, organizing.  Amazing how quickly the house gets disorganized when we spend so much time outside.

After lunch, we filled the tractor's bucket with small rocks from a big pile that we had and took it down to fill in some deep puddles.  Everything else we have tried - bark, chippings, etc. - doesn't seem to work very well.  When we were done and the bucket was empty, we filled it with very large rocks and took them back up to begin our pile for the outdoor kitchen.  The dogs love these outings.  Jesse found a deer leg and was so proud of himself.  I had to break some off to share with Dinga.

Then it was nap time for me.

Friday 10/18. It is another clear, cold, Fall day.  Once again 33.  We will probably cut the wood in the cradle and gather more large rocks today.  Don't have to go far to do that as they are everywhere along our road.

Thought for the day:  Happy Birthday, Aunt Nene!  Wishing you much happiness and a wonderful day.