Our version of retirement: Living a childhood dream

Jules said:
A suggestion re security for your tools in the garage. Keep the door down as much as possible so lowlifes don’t raid it. My mother sold her house to a carpenter. He did all his work in the open garage. Came home after work one day and his tools had been cleaned out. The lock was old. It was easy. No cameras back in those days.
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I get what you're saying.
I do close/lock the door when I'm not home.
I have a trip/flood light right next to it.
I have a good lock (had to install it before I put any tools in it).
And.....it's a very nice neighborhood, very low traffic, on foot, or driving.
Our avenue is not on the way to anything.
I did see a young man walking thru the cemetery field a few days ago, but it's his morning route
(every morning, same time.....must be a shortcut)

We've only been here a month, but have yet to see (what I'd call) the typical low life.

Still, it could happen
But......I'm quite used to dealing with folks of all walks of life
Town is a bit different, but if I get hold of a thief, town or mountains, they generally become converted

Thanks for the tip, Jules
 

Meanderer said:
did you ever consider log-cabin wallpaper?
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Gary O' said:
Yeah, I think I'm gonna just make a few areas 'rustic' and leave it at that
(I'll take a pic or two of a wall in my shop tonight)
I'm pretty well cabined out in relation to living in town
I'm locked onto being a total townie
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Nothing earth shattering
But a nook or two in the shop with cabin left overs

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Gary, you may be surprised how much these little nooks of cabin leftovers might come to mean to you. Withdraw from the cabin slowly, and avoid cabin fever (lack of cabin). Don't throw the cabin out with the bath-water. Speaking of bath water, where will your outdoor tub end up? :unsure:
 

Meanderer said:
Speaking of bath water, where will your outdoor tub end up?
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My son is using it
But, he's got it closer to the cabin
Which is fine, but he's gotta dump that bath water a considerable distance from the cabin (ice/erosion)

He says he's gonna winter out there
He's got a lot to learn
I gave him a short list of dos and don'ts
But, if he's anything like me, he'll learn a fair amount the hard way

I'm happy he drained the pump before he went fishing
It got to 3°F there last night
He says he can prime any pump (commercial fisherman for over 20 yrs)
And he did

I have less and less worry about him and the girls out there
Those little nubbins are havin' a ball

He's gonna forsake fishing for a bit, and concentrate on winter chores
Do a little trucking in between


Meanderer said:
Withdraw from the cabin slowly, and avoid cabin fever (lack of cabin).
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Yeah, no worries there
Got so much to do here, every day I'm thankful for the basic amenities

Today, gonna rent a tractor and blade the drive a bit
Prepare the drive to be blacktopped
Lay some 3/4 crushed and tamp it down
Was gonna wait 'til late spring, but we have a week or two of decent weather
 
I swear @Gary O', I take some time off the site to get married and go on honeymoon, and while I'm gone, you up and move yer damn self off the mountain and into town!! And here I was still trying to adjust to the fact that you'd left town and were up in your cabin again! Give an old lady a break will ya, and quit bopping around like you're 20 so I can catch up with you!!;)
 
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Interesting day, yesterday;

A little jaunt to some stores
Sort of a lark

Buy some project supplies
Buy a snake (toilet plugged, no big deal)

Lollygag around getting odds and ends
We head back home
Commenting how nice it is to have some basic amenities

While unloading the truck, wife comes running out waving her arms
The tub is full of water and overflowing
Same with the toilet

The snake does virtually nothing

I call the city
They come out and snake their line, from the manhole in the street, thru and passed our lateral line
Wife comes running back out while they are doing this
'THE TOILET AND TUB ARE GYSERS!'

But
That did the job
Everthing back to normal
With the exception of my lady washing all the towels she used to swab the flooded floors
and disinfecting me and my clothes and the bathroom

Still, I'm going to rent a Roto Rooter sized snake and clean the drain out from our line to the city's
while I'm thinking about it

Just a little something to mess with yer day

My lady and I commented on city life, and how simple cabin life could be

At least help was at hand, and came in minutes (that's pretty nice)
 
Took a trip to the cabin today
Got a truck load of books
There's still another truck load or two left
My lady is considering parting with some (be still my heart)

On the way up, Hwy 97.....a deer, a big muley, sprang out in front of us
Then
three more
one behind the other
I'd forgotten about their migration this time of year

There's now some flat spots on my tires

...and a pinched spot in the driver's seat
Damn near ripped the material off with my sphincter
 
Gary O' said:
Interesting day, yesterday;

A little jaunt to some stores
Sort of a lark

Buy some project supplies
Buy a snake (toilet plugged, no big deal)

Lollygag around getting odds and ends
We head back home
Commenting how nice it is to have some basic amenities

While unloading the truck, wife comes running out waving her arms
The tub is full of water and overflowing
Same with the toilet

The snake does virtually nothing

I call the city
They come out and snake their line, from the manhole in the street, thru and passed our lateral line
Wife comes running back out while they are doing this
'THE TOILET AND TUB ARE GYSERS!'

But
That did the job
Everthing back to normal
With the exception of my lady washing all the towels she used to swab the flooded floors
and disinfecting me and my clothes and the bathroom

Still, I'm going to rent a Roto Rooter sized snake and clean the drain out from our line to the city's
while I'm thinking about it

Just a little something to mess with yer day

My lady and I commented on city life, and how simple cabin life could be

At least help was at hand, and came in minutes (that's pretty nice)
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Oh how awful Gary! Great "Welcome to Town" gesture- NOT!
Sorry about the deer, too. It'll get better...
 
RadishRose said:
Oh how awful Gary!
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Actually, I should'a been more aware
Saw several skid patches miles before, and some of those patches had large maroon stains on the pavement
Some deer weren't so lucky
Some drivers, and their grills, weren't either
On the way back to the house we both looked hard to the west side of the hwy, as the deer are migrating east to Christmas Valley for the winter
Glad it wasn't night time
If it was, I'd have been following behind a semi... a ways back
They can absorb the impact much better
 
Meanderer said:
What's cookin' in town, Gary?
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Finally got my shop pretty much together
Still getting things off the deck and hung
But able to get some honey dos knocked out
Built a bookcase yesterday for my lady's cookbooks (it's a big bookcase)
The stain was dry this morn
I asked if she had more cookbooks
'Oh yeah'
This house is getting smaller

But.....took some time to dust off some avian abodes

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Gotta hang more shop lighting, but s/be creating tiny abodes for Christmas real soon

...and I'm happy with that

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Took a load of limbs and leaves to a nursery I'd missed in my peddling of avian abodes

An order

Now I gotta get busy

I'm back at it

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Glad the shop is mostly together

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with plenty of room for the sliding miter saw

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