The weeks news. Logging, a roof leak,and a new floor
It’s been an interesting couple of weeks up here on the mountain, my little slice of heaven in the great northwest.
It seems one of the local lumber companies in town is in need of logs. So the week before last, they sent a dozer up our “main” road, plowing it all the way onto the ridge to the west of us. They then sent in a grader to finish the job, leaving us with a road that is nearly dirt from the bottom to past our turnoff. By the end of this week, we were able to bring our pickups up to the end of our road, making life a bit easier for us up here. From what we can gather from the loggers and equipment operators traversing the road, logging trucks will be coming up sometime in April or May, since most roads around here now have breakup limits on them, meaning trucks can’t haul on some, or they have to go 35 miles an hour on others We have started setting up our handheld radios in the pickups and the UTV so we will be able to know when a truck is coming up or down so as to not run into one going the opposite direction.
We’ve had warmer temperatures and sunny days this past week, making me more than ready for spring. It’s right around the corner, and in town ,everything will start blooming soon. Up here, we will likely still have snow until mid-May, and even though the main road is plowed now, we still won’t be able to get into our driveways until then. Tracks for the UTV have been on back order, and are due in this month. I’m hoping they come in soon, because once the snow starts warming up, it will be hard getting a snowmobile up or down without burying it, making hauling in supplies difficult.
We were given some flooring a couple of years ago, and have been so busy with other projects, we hadn’t yet gotten around to putting it down. It didn’t help that we also hadn’t decided which room to put it in. Well, yesterday, we laid it in the living room. It took me and the lovely wife until noon today to finish it, but it’s done now. We still need to put a floor down in the bedroom, which we will be doing this summer. We found 6 boxes of flooring at Habitat for Humanity the last time we went in, but before we can lay it down, I need to finish the walls.
During the last snow storm, we discovered snow melt leaking into the bathroom from the roof, meaning there was too much weight on it. The snow had not slid off the roof, in part, due to a large ice dam on the edge. While breaking up this ice, I managed to break a chunk off that went through the bathroom window. We cleared away the broken glass and stapled a doubled up tarp across it to close it up until the snow is gone. So, now, this summer, I have to take the window out and take it up to the city for new glass. I am, then, going to build shutters for that window, since the snow builds up to the point where we can’t look out of it anyway. That way, if we need to break ice off the roof, we won’t worry about breaking it again.
Well, that’s all the news for the week. Bye for now.
