New Years Eve and Snow!

Wow, it is December 31st! Not sure where the year went, but it sure did go fast. There are 5 inches of snow on the ground and more to come today and for the next several days. Yesterday the day was spent plowing and moving snow, with the Kubota tractor. What a wonderful piece of equipment it is. It was one of the first things I bought, when I moved to the river and it has earned its keep. I did have some struggles with learning to drive it and move snow, the first year, as I ended up putting it into the ditch. I will have to take a photo of the snow covered road, later today and post it, and then you will understand how I ended up in the ditch, instead of over the hillside to a bad landing below!

This has been the busiest year of my life, in the past 12 years and frankly, I am ready to see it end, as probably alot of you are. The economy is bound to change this next year and so will lives in the country. At the moment, I have an over abundance of mohair to sell and need to find some buyers for it. What I can't sell right now, perhaps will be spun into some interesting yarn.

Speaking of yarn, I am trying to learn to knit, after avoiding it for 25 years. So far, I have torn out this scarf 12 times and restarted. I have put out feelers for a knitting group to get started, here on the river. If I can get at least four ladies or men together to knit, on a weekly basis, maybe I too will be successful. So, learning to knit then naturally brings you to wanting some mohair in the yarn you are working with and then that means learning to spin. Gads, and the list goes on and on, of things to learn and do.

It's a New Kitchen in the Yurt!!

Funny how things seem to evolve into something else, other than originally planned! I was given some kitchen cabinets, a couple of years ago, to put into a garage/studio that I was planning to build. Then reality hit and the economy went upside down and the garage didn't get built. So, in the meantime, I am storing the cabinets in the Mt.Shasta house. When I decided to get busy and do some cleaning, I moved the cabinets to the river, and stored them in the yurt. It didn't take long to realize how very nice they might look, installed in the yurt!! So, two weeks ago, the cabinets were installed, along with the used sink and faucet, from the Habitat for Humanity Store, in Medford. At the time I once lived in the yurt, for 16 months, I didn't even have running water. Now, here I am, still not living in the yurt, but living in a travel trailer, but looking forward to the day when the yurt will be a lodging destination for those who love or want to love, "a yurt". The plumbing and the drain lines aren't installed yet, but the hole is drilled through the bottom of the cabinet and the thick yurt floor, to put in the drain and the water lines. Won't be long now til I can get this put to bed and get back to wiring the electrical into this yurt and the extension cords won't get tangled around anyone's ankle, upon entering this hovel!!!