Wednesday, May 22, 2013

We were recounting the other day all the things we've done at the cabin.  I've painted almost all the walls.  With the help of my daughter and a friend, the upstairs guest bathroom has been redone.  I put knobs on all the kitchen and bathroom drawers and cupboards.  I mostly finished my reading nook.  Rob installed a new water filtering system.  We've had a new furnace and ductwork system installed.  I made a bump under the garage door to help close the gap so that mice can't get in.  Speaking of mice, I took many mice out of the basement walls and closed them back up.  For the most part, the cabin is free of mice now.  I made duvet covers and quilts and pillowcases for all the beds.  We've put up new towel hardware.  Rob and a friend put in new fan timers in all 3 bathrooms.  We've replaced batteries in all the smoke detectors.  Rob and I put in all new sockets and switches.  With a friend I got all the interior logs vacuumed and much less dusty.  We've cleared up most of the clutter around the cabin.  Tree cutters cleared our view in three directions:  now we can see Beacon Rock, the Columbia River, and Horsetail Falls.  I made new cushion covers for the built in couch.  I sorted through pot after pot, planted some with vegetables, and brought some to our other house.  We've taken 3 or 4 loads of junk to the dump.  We've reduced our woodpile by about half, and a friend regraded our driveway.  We had half of the driveway re-gravelled.  We've cut down some trees, some limbs, and groomed some of the fruit trees.  I've pulled out a lot of groundcover, and with a friend pulled a lot of weeds.  One of the things we haven't done much of is relax.  Soon we'll be caught up on all this work, and we'll get to take a weekend or a couple days and just relax.  But right now I need to schedule someone to come and take care of our logs--chink by the windows, fill bug holes, refinish the logs.

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