The weeks news. Some changes up here, and fall has arrived.
It’s been a quiet week up here on the mountain, my little slice of heaven in the great northwest.
It’s October, the days are getting shorter and cooler, and we have had to start the pellet stove every night this past week. Leaves on trees and bushes are turning red, rust, yellow and gold. The maples in town were quite lovely with their crowns of amber leaves, today, when we had to run to town for a few things.
My son and his family have left the mountain; his wife now has a job as a traveling CNA, and her first job is in Terra Haute, Indiana. They will be there for at least six months, but where she’s working has already offered to pay for her training to get her LPN license if she stays another six months. The money is better than what she was making here in town, and better benefits as well. So, they left Friday, and after driving straight through, they arrived late last night. I don’t think I will hear anything more until they get settled in.
Their cabin was never finished, but if they come back, which they hope to do, they will buy a house in town. She never liked living up here, especially in the winter. I have now started moving tools and other things into their cabin. I’m going to turn it into my shop, with lumber storage and woodworking upstairs, and open up the east outside wall big enough to drive the UTV into so I can work on it, and our other machines, in a dry place. I won’t do much until next summer, since there is not enough time left before winter sets in this year.
We’re also hoping to add more room onto our cabin; the lovely wife and I need more room here with three dogs and two cats. I want room for a model railroad layout, and the lovely wife would like more room for her crafts. We also want a bigger kitchen, with our current kitchen having gotten a lot smaller since we added the 21 cubic foot fridge, and full size cooking range. We were kicking around making larger rooms, with a bigger bedroom, a much larger kitchen, and also moving the bathroom. However, we settled on redoing the current bathroom, and the new craft/train room would be the same size as the current bedroom, but without the bookshelves, so it will be bigger. We want the kitchen at the front, so we plan on taking down the workshop/ pellet storage shed that will block the view from the new kitchen, putting a big window overlooking the view.
Everything is as ready as we can make it for the coming onslaught of winter, though I have heard it’s probably going to be milder then last; only time will tell. For once, we’re so early in our preparations, I’m at a loss as to what to do. I have been writing a bit more, but will do most of my writing once the snow closes us in. I’m also hoping to finish a few indoor projects. One is the bedroom walls as they have never been finished. Plastic and insulation only on two of the walls. I hope to change that soon.
Well, that’s all the news for the week. Bye for now.
