WEDNESDAY WITH SUNSHINE
Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 6:45 amGOOD MORNING TO ALL!
It was 55 degrees when I got up today, and is now up to 59. The fog and mist are burning off as the sun rises, and it's a beautiful view from my trailer.
Molly and I spent just about all day at the pond and leanto yesterday. I re-arranged a bunch of 'stuff' that hadn't been used since the kids were little and stayed with me down there all summer. They slept in bunk beds, and I had my antique bed designed for a feather mattress. I stook down the bunks a few years ago, and now there is a single bed where they used to be, and my double bed is still there, but with modifications----a real mattress topped with a couple of inches of memory foam! I re-calked all the cracks between the balsam logs I used to build the leanto, which is now really more like a small cabin with a door and screened-in open front facing the pond. Oakum stuffing is good to the hands, as it's got some sort of oily stuff in it----made my skin soft as I was working with it. I will need to re-roof this year, and I will do it with dark green metal, I believe, right over the old shingles. I decided to trash all those festering newspapers that I had stuffed under the table in a box to use to start fires----but I first had to re-read all those headlines from years gone by. The death of Princess Diana, John-John Kennedy, Jackie Kennedy, and on and on. If they had been in better condition, I would have considered cutting some stories out to save, but......I have to draw the line somewhere. After all, one of my main goals for this summer is to clear out 'stuff!' I also had to read over my journal I have been writing in down there for about 20 years. It's amazing how much time has gone by. I fired up my generator and vacuumed the whole area, wiped down all the surfaces in there, got my mini-12 volt TV hooked up (I can get 3 public TV channels over the air) got my battery powered radio ready to go, brought dishes up here to wash and get ready for cooking, took any bedding up here to wash, found tons of old summer clothes stored safely that I had forgotten all about---most of which fit me! That was like a shopping spree!
It poured buckets while I was working, with thunderstorms skirting on all sides, but no direct hits nearby. When I got back up here I found we had gotten another inch of rain in that storm. As the forecast was for more rain and hail and thunder, I decided to stay up here last night rather than down there, but soon I will spending way more time down there. One of the biggest hold-ups for me has been the lack of an outhouse now, as that huge tree is still across the roof of that. But then I remembered my little porta potty, and took that down to use right in the leanto, along with my pee bucket.
It was a good day of work, reminiscing, and accomplishments. And I was pretty tired last night after lifting and lugging and hauling stuff around and in and out of the leanto. Today I will wash bedding and hang it out if the sun stays out, then make up my bed down there. I'll wash the cookware, pack some easy food into a cooler----like hot dogs, hamburgers----stuff you can cook over an open fire, and seltzer to drink along with gallon jugs of water. I already have a propane 2-burner stove, regular wick kerosene lamps, Alladin mantle kerosene lamps, a Coleman propane lamp (which I try to avoid as it's noisy) candles galore, coffee pot, coffee, creamer, dishes, etc. The nights down there are amazing----coyotes howling as they hunt, frogs croaking, beavers felling trees and slapping the pond with their tails, deer galavanting along the dam, sometimes families of otters fishing and playing in the pond, the weird, loud grating noise of big blue herons as they fish and call in the dark, and the wonderful smells of balsam and pine. Sigh! It's really an outdoor paradise while being sheltered.
It sounds as if others of you have been busy with family and friends and camping and all sorts of fun things! I love reading your reports every day----keep 'em coming! Happy Wednesday!
It was 55 degrees when I got up today, and is now up to 59. The fog and mist are burning off as the sun rises, and it's a beautiful view from my trailer.
Molly and I spent just about all day at the pond and leanto yesterday. I re-arranged a bunch of 'stuff' that hadn't been used since the kids were little and stayed with me down there all summer. They slept in bunk beds, and I had my antique bed designed for a feather mattress. I stook down the bunks a few years ago, and now there is a single bed where they used to be, and my double bed is still there, but with modifications----a real mattress topped with a couple of inches of memory foam! I re-calked all the cracks between the balsam logs I used to build the leanto, which is now really more like a small cabin with a door and screened-in open front facing the pond. Oakum stuffing is good to the hands, as it's got some sort of oily stuff in it----made my skin soft as I was working with it. I will need to re-roof this year, and I will do it with dark green metal, I believe, right over the old shingles. I decided to trash all those festering newspapers that I had stuffed under the table in a box to use to start fires----but I first had to re-read all those headlines from years gone by. The death of Princess Diana, John-John Kennedy, Jackie Kennedy, and on and on. If they had been in better condition, I would have considered cutting some stories out to save, but......I have to draw the line somewhere. After all, one of my main goals for this summer is to clear out 'stuff!' I also had to read over my journal I have been writing in down there for about 20 years. It's amazing how much time has gone by. I fired up my generator and vacuumed the whole area, wiped down all the surfaces in there, got my mini-12 volt TV hooked up (I can get 3 public TV channels over the air) got my battery powered radio ready to go, brought dishes up here to wash and get ready for cooking, took any bedding up here to wash, found tons of old summer clothes stored safely that I had forgotten all about---most of which fit me! That was like a shopping spree!
It poured buckets while I was working, with thunderstorms skirting on all sides, but no direct hits nearby. When I got back up here I found we had gotten another inch of rain in that storm. As the forecast was for more rain and hail and thunder, I decided to stay up here last night rather than down there, but soon I will spending way more time down there. One of the biggest hold-ups for me has been the lack of an outhouse now, as that huge tree is still across the roof of that. But then I remembered my little porta potty, and took that down to use right in the leanto, along with my pee bucket.
It was a good day of work, reminiscing, and accomplishments. And I was pretty tired last night after lifting and lugging and hauling stuff around and in and out of the leanto. Today I will wash bedding and hang it out if the sun stays out, then make up my bed down there. I'll wash the cookware, pack some easy food into a cooler----like hot dogs, hamburgers----stuff you can cook over an open fire, and seltzer to drink along with gallon jugs of water. I already have a propane 2-burner stove, regular wick kerosene lamps, Alladin mantle kerosene lamps, a Coleman propane lamp (which I try to avoid as it's noisy) candles galore, coffee pot, coffee, creamer, dishes, etc. The nights down there are amazing----coyotes howling as they hunt, frogs croaking, beavers felling trees and slapping the pond with their tails, deer galavanting along the dam, sometimes families of otters fishing and playing in the pond, the weird, loud grating noise of big blue herons as they fish and call in the dark, and the wonderful smells of balsam and pine. Sigh! It's really an outdoor paradise while being sheltered.
It sounds as if others of you have been busy with family and friends and camping and all sorts of fun things! I love reading your reports every day----keep 'em coming! Happy Wednesday!
, enjoying inside with the A/C. 
So much to do, and so much time to do it in, so not getting in a sweat here yet. 
making notes galore as to all I need to do, what I want in the r.v. etc. etc. Nothing will take that much time, and this way, hopefully, I won't miss much 
They reserve the right to discontinue wireless service whenever they want! 
It sounds like you're getting ready for summer there and ours is half over. Could stand some of your temps! I was thinking of Ava's temps melting the seal on her window. When I lived in the desert, the glue melted from under my car rear view mirror and ran down the side of my car! I couldn't leave my car without using one of those windshield shades or I wouldn't be able to touch the steering wheel. Seat belt put a big welt on my DD's little leg one time. I felt so bad 
Tried to keep them covered with a quilt.
Jeff said they have 30 days. I'm not going to like my paycheck for July! I'm thinking of trying to get some temp work to fill in. I hate to fill all of my free time, but I'm starting to worry about the money.