Welcome to our cabin! Here's a couple of chairs on the deck just for you!
Now, after a couple of weeks of coughs and colds and doctors appointments and prescriptions, we got to the point of feeling relatively healthy, and not contagious (we hope), and we made it down to the cabin this past weekend!
We always follow the Weather Channel, and the surrounding area was showing beautiful weather... and, the mountain was just that.. beautiful... very little snow, kinda muddy in places, but beautiful, clear weather.
We had got a call from the "HOA" and they told us that we needed to move our trailer up to our property, so that was the first on the list... They have a space at the base of the mountain where you can store your four wheelers and snowmobiles, and our trailer has been there, for the last 5 years... This is the trailer that we transported the backhoe from New Mexico to Utah on.. So, it's huge... I think they were a little sick of looking at it.. So, now, it's moved up to the round about, just down from the cabin on our lot #10.... I'm glad that little job is completed.
Even though the weather was fabulous, it was cold in the cabin... was colder inside the cabin than outside.. A couple of months ago, we bought a propane burner heater, and we hooked it up and turned it on... really warmed up the joint. When we originally took it up, we couldn't get the burners to stay lit... something about not enough oxygen, to keep it lit.. But, Jim did a little research (go figure) and found if we put a different something or other on it, it would work.. and it did.. perfectly.. It makes a ton of noise, but also a ton of heat! Made it very, very comfortable.
Jim's goal was to build the platform for the hearth... and, that project was started. Mine was to get curtains up... the curtains aren't particularly to block the sunlight, but to block anonymous people from peeking in... Jim and I both accomplished these goals.
Jim also completed a little more of the winterizing the cabin... Above the bay window in the dining area, there was an open space that went directly out to the weather... A little something that was missed in the framing process... So, he covered that in with sheeting, to keep the weather out, and whenever it decides to snow, it'll keep the wet snow and rain off my curtains...
And, the more things that happen inside the cabin, the more I love it. I can envision a home.
The hearth will be covered with cut, flat rocks so the wood burning stove will sit nice and flat.
Sawing these up takes a lot of time, but it will be worth it.
The hearth platform is going to have a rock facing on it, like we've showed you before, with a set of night lights underneath on either side of the cold air return... That was most exciting for me. One of the antique pieces that we bought years ago, we attached as the cold air return on the front of the hearth platform... and I think it looks amazing... This cold air return piece was from an old hotel in Nevada, and I fell in love with it, the very first time I saw it. I think at the time, Jim was wondering where in the world we would use it.. Well, we found it a home.. and it's nice to see these little pieces being incorporated into our dreams.
I have one pantry cabinet that is actually in the kitchen, and I love it there...
We were a little nervous with the drop off the side of the balcony, and "Galt's Gulch", so we installed some motion detector lighting to the front and the side... at least, if someone comes over in the evening, they'll see where they are going to land before falling over the side.
"Cheri's Heart" is covered in snow - but, it still looks lovely.
All in all, it was a successful journey, with goals being accomplished... The adventure continues.
Jim and Cheri
