Ramblings from White Mountain
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 5th, 2025
We had a visitor yesterday, eyeing the birds in our feeder. But our visitor decided that the house was scary and so they left and went back down to the creek again, no doubt grumbling about it the whole way down. These are fairly common around here. Our neighbors see Mountain Lions but so far […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 13th, 2024
Ok, so I’m a bit behind on posting. I’m also practicing understatements today. So maybe I should do this by months…. August 2024 The storage part of our new garage building was completed. We didn’t put any windows in this part of the garage as we wanted to be able to heat it in the […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 24th, 2024
So that’s done! My only sewing project for the year. Sewing is just not my thing. It’s great when a plan comes together. On to the next project, one that involves paint.
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 18th, 2024
The contractors are done with the building and the electrical installation, which were the only two components of the garage. Now we have to wait for two inspections, and the power company to hook up the power to the garage. Also we need to put some gravel in front of the garage door to bring […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 10th, 2024
Finally started making the cushions for the window seat. It’s been occupying dreams for a while, and I have a plan, so now I get to see if the plan works. Plan A First I cut the foam into three pieces and I started working on the largest piece first. Smaller piece would have been […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 6th, 2024
Picked another batch of strawberries today, most of which were destined for freezing. One batch will be dessert tonight. And I solved a problem of having run out of chocolate covered strawberries (again). This is an on-going problem. I had set aside six of the largest for their highest and best use. Finished a knitting […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 2nd, 2024
The construction framing is done and the garage is dried in! Given the number of garage buildings we see in this county that are in this exact condition, technically we could be done. But we aren’t; we are probably setting a bad example. Next week the electrician will be here and we’ll have power to […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 30th, 2024
Yesterday we had to go to Home Depot to get things needed to complete the garage construction, and we also stopped at our favorite orchard to pick up a box of pie cherries and raspberries since our own pie cherry tree didn’t set any fruit this year (being still a tiny baby tree), and our […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 27th, 2024
The roofing trusses were delivered and installed in place, awaiting plywood sheathing and then the waterproof covering and the metal roofing on top of that. That will be a major step forward, as the garage will be dried in. Since we’re not insulating the garage this point, it doesn’t really matter having air flow, but […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 25th, 2024
The garage framing is done. It’s a simple building, four exterior walls and one interior wall separating the garage from the storage room, two personnel doors, two windows, and a garage door. Very simple. These materials sat in the yard for over a week, waiting for the concrete to dry. Watching concrete drying is a […]