Found Cat!!!
Our cat is home! He was never far from home… He ended up getting locked into the little trailer last weekend when my DH was winterizing it. He obviously found some little nook in there to hunker down and take a nap. Only today when we were out outside did he decide to holler loud […]
October 2026 Island Trip – Day 8
Getting everything buttoned up took more time than usual given that it’s October… Deploying/setting/checking heaters and and dehumidifiers to both trailers and the pump room, dumping water heaters, and packing out the four expired propane bottles on top of the usual left me with no time for picking a last round of apples. There weren’t […]
October 2026 Island Trip – Day 7
It was difficult to get motivated to replace part of one of Stella’s window gaskets. In part because getting the old adhesive off is a pain in the butt. But then it became clear the reason I don’t like this sort of chore is because of Scope Creep. You have to run to town to […]
October 2026 Island Trip – Day 6
Today’s banner accomplishment was replacing the drain hose on Stella’s fridge. At this point I’m not going to switch over to using this fridge as I head out Saturday late morning. It’ll be ready to go when we next return. It took 60 minutes to replace the filter on the water inlet for Stella. This […]
October 2026 Island Trip – Day 5
The road work moved ahead by leaps and bounds today. Spreading gravel will do that for ya! While reigning in my inner 8-year old boy (watching dump trucks in the coolest!) I: Got the finish paint on the bedroom boxes. Finished the gravel retention project at the lower barn’s overhang. Removed the last 5 alder […]
Missing Cat
Our cat has been missing for over 48-hours now 🐈⬛. He’s lived his 14+ years in the same house, on the same property, so being lost is very unlikely. My DH has done all the things, searched every shrub on our property, contacted all the local animal welfare orgs, the vet, our neighbors, placed a […]
October 2026 Island Trip – Day 4
The driveway project continued by finishing scraping all soil and rock that needed to be removed from the areas being rebuilt. They created a new ditch down the west drive, which I didn’t understand would happen. I thought the existing, though overgrown, ditch would be used. It’s very impressive. All of the s(p)oils 😂 have […]
October 2026 Island Trip – Day 3
Road work got off to a late start due to equipment communication snafus, and yet the west side of the west drive got mowed in order to find the ditch, a path was mowed in the upper east field so the dump truck could deposit soil/rock that’s being removed, and the berm was removed from […]
October 2026 Island Trip – Day 2
Finding drain hose for the fridge was a bust today. There’s a marine supply I’ll try tomorrow. The existing hose is smaller than 1/2” and larger than 3/8ths”. This puts us in the realm of 16ths, and that’s doesn’t exist. If there’s a rubber hose to be found, that might work as it’s so flexible. […]
October 2026 Island Trip – Day 1
Travel and set up was uneventful. I didn’t turn on the hot water as I have almost no propane and I don’t want to use it up keeping 6-gallons of water hot… Stella’s two 7-gallon tanks are so far past their expiration date that no one will fill them again. I have two 5-gallon tanks […]
