Real Doors

We now have the for real, permanent doors up and the construction doors headed back to their home at the bldg supply store. It was a very good idea using construction doors until things that tend to bang and bump into doors are inside. Of course not all of those things have been moved in, but hopefully the majority of it. Looks more and more like a real house. That is all that is really new for now. We hope to call for an inspection next week and see if we can get an official occupancy permit and hopefully get an idea of just how close we are to being able to pass our final inspection.
Back to the doors, Red for the front, Marianne's choice and Dark Blue for the back, Steve's choice.

John hooked up the washer,dryer and gave them a test run. All working fine. We did get a little more snow, not enough to get excited about, but more is in the forecast for Monday night. Keeping our fingers crossed.

Play Day

Happy days! All of the light fixtures are up and working. What a relief it is to have them done. Oh and the fan in the master bedroom is up as well. So now we have some interior painting of the walls, interior doors to put in, flooring to put down and some other stuff, but I think we're close enough to get occupancy. Should be ready for the final before July easily enough.
So today John and I went out for a little exploratory ride on the sleds. Needed to get an access route scoped out for some back country skiing.
This post will be long on photos and not much else. The first shot is on the way in and where we ultimately wanted to end up.


A little closer. I hoped to get right on top of that slot to the right. Nice little avy path to get into the top of and ski.

A little closer.

Well I was able to climb right up on top of it and with a little more effort and time I could have been standing right in the top, (oh and I didn't pack my skis with me today), but John got me nervous with his riding around down at the bottom of this in the bowl where it all runs out. He made some runs up towards the bottom of it. With more run and really pinning it, he could of made it further up, but glad he didn't press it as I was not in a position to get to him as quick as I'd like if it slid.

This is the view from the top and side looking down it.

The middle.

And the run out at the bottom.

There is John goofing around in the trees at the bottom.

Anyway we had a nice ride, scenery was great to say the least. Terrain for miles and miles. The camera batteries finally started to die before I could take some of the panorama shots that show all the mountains in every direction. Can't give it all up just yet. We have winters and winters to get it all ridden and ski up. It'll take all the time we can come up with.
Nice to be able to do something at the base camp besides work.

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feb 7 & 8

not a whole lot more snow that we saw last time we were up. yep, those are still the construction doors......
steve got a lot accomplished- nearly all lights are now up (probably all by now).

the hanging lights are where the island between the kitchen and eating area will be. the kitchen fixture holds 2- 100 watt bulbs (yay!). as a result of our wiring confusion, we only have a switch for this light coming in from the back door. we do have a hole in the wall by the stairs with a cover over it that is where we wanted the other switch- will hopefully be easy to put a switch there. seems so logical.....

we have a working shower (who knew that there were so many different proprietary types of hook ups that determine what fixture you can buy? once we knew what kind we needed it was a lot easier to get this done.)

this is the spiffy shower curtain that steve got at big lots. looks great with the paint, doesn't it?

the sconces are up- matching the wall.....

and the kitchen sink is hooked up! woo hoo!

i did some touch up painting around the outlets in the front room. couldn't stand much, so that was about all i could do.

it was a bit chilly last night- 11.8 at 8:38.....(probably colder, steve moved the outdoor thermometer today to get a more accurate reading. this was warmer than the car thermo)

dinner at the brewpub- buffalo burgers, music, wine, the apres ski crowd...

when we got home last night, we heard whining at the door. it was rocky, wanting halle to come out & play. and he was back this morning.

the streets are the easiest place to walk- the dogs posthole in the snow and don't like so much trying to go over it- but they can race down the road. not much traffic, and what there is goes slow.

and the scenic shots- last night's sunset

this morning's hoar frost

red twig and barn

a camas county horse trough

that's it for now!

No work to speak of on the base camp for the past 10 or so days, due to the fact that it was time for vacation. So I got together with a great bunch of guys and spent 6 solid days of climbing and skiing the back country. So instead of house photos there are only ski shots. Loads of fun and great snow even though we haven't had much new of late. We did our best to track it up though. Hope you enjoy the photos.
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