It was Much Too Hot today, so we took a road trip to Port Angeles and went up Hurricane Ridge. It was cooler at 4000 ft. There was even a small amount of residual snow! Also deer and one rabbit (that we saw). Lovely vistas. Not too many people. Nice. Continue reading

This house is on septic. When we bought it, the septic tank was umarked, although we had a rough idea where it was buried.   I said "Let's take out that awful grass and plant petunias. That way, in a few years, when they need to pump the tank, we haven't planted anything permanent, they… Continue reading

I think these will make a big difference in our ability to see where we're going when driving at night!   Before and after photos of the (new (to us)) truck's headlight (they were really milky.)             Evi Schumacher Richard put new  Continue reading

Today's project: Goodbye stump we keep tripping over (and several others as well).               Continue reading

When we moved into this house, I knew I wanted some sort of door at the end of the downstairs hall so that we could pen the cats in the back room but still give them access to the litter box (without dragging the box around). Today, we checked off that ToDo List item.  … Continue reading

In today's achievements, an 8-ft long 8×12 creosoted beam(?) has been extracted from the back 30** and cut into smaller, more easily discarded chunks.   ** Why was it back there in the first place?? Mostly buried under shrubbery!   Someone, in the past ownership of this house, liked to just toss things behind the… Continue reading

Q: How is a stump like an Iceberg? A: The largest part is underground (water).   We have several stumps in our backyard which are in the way. One has been taking up part of a block wall where we have a slight terraced area.   Today, Rich did some major stump excavation. More to… Continue reading

Concrete – the trash that never disappears.   Rich has been finding lumps of concrete behind our fence,, left from previous fence posts. We've disposed of approximately half a dozen of these so far, broken into smaller chunks and put out with the weekly trash. Then there was the huge lump of concrete the former… Continue reading

So, now we have a trailer* and a boat** and Rich got his motorcycle back a week ago (it was being stored by the man who shipped it up from San Bruno, but he's moving at the end of the month.) We have WA drivers license numbers (we applied for the licenses a week ago… Continue reading

On Monday, Rich (who had been up for a while already, reading craigslist) woke me at daybreak ("Are you awake? I want to buy a boat (Because lakes, inlets, etc.) but I thought I would check with you first"). I said "Sure, OK, what kind and what does it cost?" It's a used "Jon Boat"… Continue reading