Monthly Archives: December 2004

Happy New Year to You!

Haven’t been in town much, hence no updates to this blog. Until the power system at the land house…now my home .. happens, I won’t be here very much. And we hope for that in this coming year, sooner I hope.

We had lots of hail and weather this week and more coming, snow at our house that’s only at 1320 feet! We also had a small roof leak due to sloppy work by our builder, good thing I haven’t seen him today or I would really get on his case. We were out in that said weather wind storm hail rain, Russel on a 16′ ladder, un-damming a valley that filled with debris due to a flange for a vent cutting into the valley..it backed up and leaked.

Funny thing too, I was putting away towels in bathroom and looked up at the bare light bulb and it was dripping with water! Not good.
But it is fixed. And we couldn’t of done it without the mighty ‘Tim Allen of HomeImprovement’ flashlight…10 million candle power…me holding the light on the roof valley so Russel could see to work…quite the sight really.

Any way.. just a hit and run here at the little town house rental that was home to us for 14 years …it is fading into a place only to come to when we have too. Although all of our stuff is still here, nothing really got moved to the land yet. But it is no longer filled with the cozy life force we had. Time will tell if we will be able to afford to keep it for an office after we do move out of it .. and that won’t be at least until spring or summer.

To any one who comes here, wishing you peace, health, and prosperity in the coming year.

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The shots that got away

We have a young buck with one antler gone who visits often. I was watching him through the binoculars while he was munching on madrone berries on the ground. I did this for quite awhile, then noticed to his left and behind the madrone tree…a trunk…not of a tree but a beast… big old granddaddy with antlers as long as my arms came slowing out of the wood onto the driveway.

He was HUGE.

And he looked at me looking at him and I would of gotten the best shots … but wouldn’t ya know it, the camera was in town as I left it there just the day before to charge and pull images off. Damn. Really, this was a rare photo opportunity that i missed.

The same day just after my deer friends continued on over the divide, our resident grey squirrel with the biggest fluffiest tail I have ever seen, was posing for me as well. AND i saw a bright PINK mushroom… all this in one day and the one day the camera wasn’t with me.

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