Presidents Day Weekend, 2020 Day One: The weather promised to be crap Saturday and Sunday, but I didn’t care. I was eager to get started building my cabin! I packed all my tarps–and I have a LOT of tarps!–my tools, and everything I needed for spending the weekend working at…
View More Framing the WallsCategory: River Song
Realizing a life-long dream. And yes, I am a Dr. Who fan.
Building A Cabin
Friday, February 14, 2020 So I’ve decided to build a cabin tomorrow. I’m not sure how much of it I will get done. Although I have done some building in my time, I’m self taught and figure things out by trial and error. Lots of error. It’s one of the…
View More Building A CabinTrees, Leaves, Seeds, and Vines
Wednesday, January 1, 2020 I spent the first day of the new year out at River Song. The tree trimmer had been out on Monday, and I was eager to see how it looked. He had trimmed the branches on the cedar in the southwest corner and “bucked” the fallen…
View More Trees, Leaves, Seeds, and VinesMeeting with the Tree Trimmer
Monday, December 23, 2019 I met Nathan out at River Song at 10:00 a.m. It had been a hard morning for me. Yesterday’s work really wore me out, making it difficult to sleep. I’d been really grumpy when I got up and yelled at my cat, Pepper Dog, to quit…
View More Meeting with the Tree TrimmerA Record Rainfall
Sunday, December 22, 2019 For the past couple of weeks, we’ve pretty much had non-stop rain, including a record rainfall on Friday. It had finally stopped raining Saturday afternoon, and I took the opportunity to head out to River Song on Sunday. I didn’t really fell like it because I…
View More A Record RainfallDown by the River
Saturday, November 30, 2019 It was a beautiful, but cold, day today. FH and I had planned to go camping, but I chickened out. The temps are well below freezing, and the pipes in my tiny home almost froze last night. It was also really foggy. I really wasn’t prepared…
View More Down by the RiverThe Hippie and the Engineer
Saturday, November 16, 2019 FH was bored, so I invited him to come out and spend the day at River Song. I had found the perfect spot to build a “shed” the previous weekend, and I wanted to get back out there again and clear out more deadfall. This was…
View More The Hippie and the EngineerRiver’s Edge
Monday, November 25, 2019 I spent a few hours out here yesterday, a well-deserved break after a nearly week-long conference. I was tired and had a headache; I was done peopleing, and I knew the fresh air would make me feel better. Plus, I had talked to a tree trimming…
View More River’s EdgeI Did It!
Friday, June 21, 2019 It’s been almost a month since I first saw that little piece of property overlooking the river, and I’ve been thinking about it every day. Every time I compare the positives with the negatives, the positives win. Every. Single. Time. Negatives: It’s on a busy highway.…
View More I Did It!A Second Look
Tuesday, June 18, 2019 RV and I finally met up! It had taken several weeks, but we finally got together to look at the property on the river. I hadn’t been able to get this little place off my mind, and I was eager to see it again. I had…
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