September Accomplishments

We continue to push the rock up the hill every weekday and Saturdays.  As a result things are getting done.

Our neighbor Mrs #22.  A curious and friendly gal she is.

OK, we did take an afternoon off.  The Hansen Guest Ranch put on an Oktoberfest celebration in cooperation with the Chamber of Commerce in Swan Valley.  The food was excellent, Bratwurst & Sauerkraut, Schnitzel, Spätzle, soft pretzels, and German Chocolate Cake. They had Sam Adams Autumn Ale on tap and even had live music.  This two little gals could really sing.  They sang a couple dozen songs from God Bless America to Sweet Home Alabama, but they customized it to Sweet Home Swan Valley!  They were outstanding entertainers!

We even met up with Casey and his new bride Abby from North Carolina, at the end of the event.  They were touring the USA for their Honeymoon.  They didn't have set plans, just woke up each day and decided what they wanted to do.  We think they would make good RVers!

We worked on spreading all the gravel that Troy hauled in.  Gari had the hard ground work on this deal.

We finished raking and smoothing and compacting just in time for Tom & Cathy's arrival.

Below is the Irwin Rd driveway.  We started lining the edge of the driveway with river rock we plucked out of the yard area.  We stopped because we think we are going to have to push snow off the driveway and the edge rocks will be in the way of that.

Looking north out the Chapel Road driveway.

Looking east out the Irwin Rd driveway.  We straightened the edges of this driveway; better than it was before anyway.

 At the end of the Irwin Rd driveway, we started putting the unwanted river rocks at the driveway apron.

We finished pulling all the wire last month.  We still have to cut in all the boxes so they "are ready for device" in order to schedule our rough electrical inspection.  Also have to cut in all the circuit breakers into the distribution panel.  We learned that in addition to GFCI outlets, we have to install AFCI breakers for all bedroom and smoke alarm circuits.  That was a new one for us.

There's the distribution panel, all the circuits are there.  Now just have to cut 'em in.

The garage door is finally going in.  We made the order in April of this year.  We weren't sure if it was going to snow in the garage before the door was up.  Fortunately we have avoided that.

Last panel to install..

Angel installs the track.

It is official, Eagle View residence is completely closed in and ready for winter season inside work.  Now we can lock all doors and keep our tools and materials in the house without concern of casual theft.

We spread some of the manure (frame left piles), about half of it so far.  Once all that is spread, we can start laying in the last fill layer of top soil (frame right pile) that we saved from the driveway excavation.  We want to get an irrigation header buried before we complete the final grading.  It may be spring when we get to that.

A few shots from inside.  We also took delivery of the shower unit for the master bathroom.  We plumbed the drain in and have requested a rough plumbing inspection for later this week.  Fingers crossed on the inspection results...

Some of the guest bath and laundry plumbing.

This photo below doesn't translate all that well, but what it was, was a sun dog rainbow right in front of Mt Baldy.  We have never seen such a thing so low in the sky.