Happy New Year 2020

                                           "HAPPY NEW YEAR"

Wishing a very happy New Year and many more to come. Hope all your dreams and wishes come true.

I thank all of you for being my friends and helping me through the good times as well as the bad ones. Take care.

Christmas 2019

MERRY CHRISTMAS and HAPPY NEW YEAR

I hope everyone has an enjoyable Christmas this year and as usual, if you can help someone who is less fortunate please do. I want to thank all of you who has stuck by me this year. Thank you so much

Take care

Hostile cold temps.

Hi everyone, sorry for taking so long to post, I meant to post sooner but, it's been so cold here, I really didn't want to go out and do anything.I have not been to stores or to get water, I am using snow and melting it for water. Here is what the temp. is right now.

It's been like this and colder for the past 2 weeks. So nothing is getting done. I pretty much go outside to either get wood, turn the generator on, which I have to bring in at night so it will start. The trips to the outhouse is an adventure in itself, LOL. My front door is still fun to get to, I have to wear grippers to get down the frozen snow bank.

I took this picture the other morning about 10 a.m.

The one good thing that has come out of this weather is, the snow piled up on my tv antenna and sent it crashing to the ground, I can't show it as it is buried way under the snow. So, I have been watching Youtube a lot more and enjoy  it more than tv. I have found so many interesting videos and actually made some new online friends.

I am hoping this cold spell will end soon so, I can get the shop finished and my addition. Once that is done, I will take life a bit easier and spend time running around and taking photos. So, I hope everyone is doing well and in good spirits.

TAKE CARE

Wow, finally got a decent snow storm

Hey we finally got some snow, a little more than I expected. It snowed here for 2 days straight and accumulated Just under 4 feet. It caught me off guard. But, Matt and I did get the shop framed in so, that really helped a lot.
               Looking from the road. my new Ford Escape on the right buried

My shop framed in

I plan to build a back wall as soon as I can get the snow cleared out then, the sides and roof.

The lump in the front is my snowmachine and the back one is my trailer.

This is the porch and my little roof over the door collapsed

                                                 The porch

                         At least my wood shed is still standing, LOL

                                                  My front door

                                This is the blue pop up tent I had

                                    Looking out to the road.

The outhouse {red} is leaning from the snow, I have wood pallets on the other side to keep it from tipping over.

I did have a good breakfast this morning, fried potatoes with 2 eggs sunny side up.

Well that should do it for now, I will have a post on cleanup and whatever else in a day or two. Hope you enjoy the photos and will see ya soon. Take care

Major setback for the addition

Hi everyone, I'm having a setback on completing the cabin addition. Last Thursday, I had a doctors appt. at 2:30 pm. I didn't get back home until around 4:20 and it was getting dark. I had about 4" of snow on the shop which is fine so, I decided to clear the snow Friday morning. Turns out it decided to rain all night and Friday morning, I woke up to this.

You can imagine how I must have felt. But, I kept calm because, it is what it is and my main concern was to fix the situation. I called my friend Matt and he came over Saturday morning and we figured a way to fix it. We ended up clearing most of the things out of the shop and starting bending the poles back. At the split pieces, we bent them back and put large hose clamps around them. Then I decided to start studding it in.

This s the result of our getting it back to the way it was but, only better.

It took Matt and I  4 hrs. to get this done. No way I could have done this by myself. Matt is a very good friend. As soon as the other side is finished, Matt will finish my addition and I will work on putting walls up on the shop. I should have done this a long time ago. Here is the lumber to finish the job. We will put up 2"x 6" trusses. Once it is all studded in, I will take more photos of how we fixed things.
                                           

                                                 Take care

New addition and 1st snow....Yahoo

Hello everyone, you remember me don't you? LOL. Things are coming along nicely although I am a bit behind. The addition is almost complete.

That's my friend Matt above who is helping me

                           I will be putting a window in on this side.

                                       Sorry for the blurriness

                                   I think it looks pretty good.

The best part yet is, we got our first snow for the last 2 days, Finally

I have a new sign for my outhouse. Actually, Matt found it among my scrap wood and put it up, I laughed so much. But, it's perfect.

The broken window in the back of my truck, is my fault. I had something large and it slid back when I was going uphill. I may get it fixed, we'll see.

So anyway, we have about 6" right now and I am happy. This year, I plan to stay on top of it now that I have a super duty snowblower. Last year was a big mess. I hope everyone is doing well and I will try to post more often. Thanks and Take care.

My birthday, my present and changes

Hello everyone, on Oct. 15 I turned 72 and I feel pretty good about it. I decided to buy myself a birthday present. 2008 Ford escape Hybrid.

I started on the addition

I have been doing a lot of downsizing for now, I don't feel so crowded although, I still have more to do.

I built this table to fit the cabin

                      I now have more room and not so much clutter

While I was out back, I looked up to see a woodpecker and spotted this abandoned bees nest. Pretty cool, eh?

It's been constantly raining here kinda makes it miserable. Hopefully it will turn to snow soon. So, that is pretty much that is going on at the moment. Will keep you up to date on the addition. Take care