October, two houses rented, time to take it easy! Sort of. Linc decided that the roof of the second rental house had two many hips and valleys to attempt a new metal roof without help (he and friends got the first house roof done the year before but it was a simple ranch house with a detached garage). So, he contracted it out, then hired on with the contractor as a laborer/roofer to help drop the cost a bit. He learned a lot and decided he'd made the right choice. They did great work and it was over and done with in a week instead of dragging on for a month or more.
And, we decided that we really needed to build a new hay barn. Our original one, a tarp garage, is starting to come apart, it's too small to put an entire winter's supply of hay in so we're always scrambling in March or April to find someone's barn stored organic alfalfa hay, and we had inadvertently erected our tarp garage on the neighbor's property (boundary confusion), so we're aiming to take it down sooner than later. Linc designed a 24' x 12' pole barn, tried augering holes with an assortment of broken tractor driven augers, then just got impatient, hand dug the holes as well as he could and got to building.
With that started (below), we went for a day hike up the road and realized we really wanted a longer hike to celebrate getting the house renovation done and rented, so got our chores done early and made it up to Gunnison Lake (a 4000' in four mile up more or less bushwhack that we'd never managed to make it to before), admired the view while we hastily ate lunch and ran back down in time for evening chores.
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| Future hay barn in progress (tiny house on left) |
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| A half mile up Pitkin Road from home on mid-day exercise hike. |
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| Jeanne part way up to Gunnison Lake |
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| Feeling happy we finally made it here after hearing so much about it. |
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| Gunnison Lake - don't ask how to get there, it's a secret! |
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| Coming back down with a view of the Beckwith Range |
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