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The start of a new year is often a time of action, preparing, planning. A fresh start, full of energy. For some reason, this year I feel the weight of waiting on my shoulders. Despite a quiet and friendly Christmas Season, Omicron is now spreading like a viral wildfire. My booster shot is a day […]

It was a true Christmas miracle. As the hour neared midnight, the snow began to fall, and by the time we got up on Christmas morning there was a blanket of white as far as you could see. It is very rare to get snow on Christmas Day here. The weather on this stretch of

It’s been Mitch’s dream to have a Christmas Enchanted Forest walk through the woods in the back part of our acreage. As soon as we bought the land, he was planning power outlets, clearing paths and dreaming BIG dreams. Being the first year, it was a bit of an experiment. The walk takes about ten

This post is a bit long, so feel free to skim through it. I wanted to get a record of the framing before they start building the roof, so it’s not intended to be entertaining. It’s been several weeks of framing and the crew is just about ready to start building the roof over the

What started out in the Pacific as a major typhoon (apparently the biggest weather bomb on record), has finally hit the coast and it’s been dramatic. Big waves are washing up higher than I’ve seen before. There is only about 15 feet of beach front on our property that is walkable and the logs are

Today, after four days of constant hard rain, the sun came out in all its glory. It seemed a good opportunity to look for Lobster or Chanterelle Mushrooms and so I dug out my trusty walking stick and headed up the mountain. A short ten minute walk from Twin Eagles Bluff and you find yourself

I know that these posts aren’t all that interesting, as they just record the long process of getting our dream home built, but I also wanted this blog to be a record of the evolution of the house, which includes the mundane as well as the fascinating. I promise that I will get back to