Winnie The Pooh

I saw this verse today, and I thought of the little adventure that Jim and I are on.... - a couple of old farts building a cabin on the top of a mountain... It's been wonderful...

It's so amazing to be having "Another Grand Adventure" with Jim...

Cheri

I OWE YOU....

So, Jim and I decided to take a trailer full of stuff down to our storage building in Panguitch this weekend.... We got a little bit of a late start because we had an overnight party with Mahayla.... and then we were going to take her to the Living Aquarium for her birthday at 10:00 on Saturday morning.... Well, Mahayla had so much fun Friday night, that she slept 12 hours, until almost 11 in the morning...... Had a wonderful time... can't complain..

We got on the road at about 6:00 pm on Saturday and headed down south... We got into Panguitch around 10:00 and decided to find some where to eat a little bit of dinner....  There are a couple of restaurants in the town, and we figured because it was Saturday night, one of them would be open... Well, guess what..... they all close at or before 10:00.  We even tried to get a sandwich at the Arby's, which is part of the local gas station, and as we were walking up to the doors, the attendant turned on the closed sign...the door was locked. . . Sad..

I told Jim that we had a couple of cups of ramen in the van, and he said he would rather starve than eat ramen.... oh well..

There was a little movie theater on the corner, and we figured we would go in, get a soda, and maybe ice cream or something, and that would be it until morning.  We go in, and they have a grill for burgers and the such... but, it was already cold and was cleaned...  The cook came out, and we asked what he had that wouldn't mess up the kitchen.  He said he would put something together for us.....  something... we were a little concerned...

About 10 minutes later, he comes out with two plates, two amazing sandwiches, and potato salad... the little girl working the front brought us a couple of sodas, and it was absolutely delightful...  I couldn't believe it...  The chef's name was William, and he was from England.  He was wearing a Pink Floyd t-shirt and Jim and William had a conversation about music... I basically sat there and ate... It was wonderful.

We go to the counter to pay and the total bill came up to $20.00 and change - Jim hands the girl his card, and she says, "We only take cash of cheque"... Cheque?  Um... no we don't have a cheque on us, and we don't carry cash when we're traveling...  The owner comes out, and just says, "We'll write you an "I OWE U", and you can settle up later"... Jim and I were shocked.... totally shocked...I felt like we had entered into the Twilight Zone... We told the guy we could drive over to Zion's Bank and use the ATM.. he said no, to just come back another time...  Was really cool...

So, the next morning, we drove over to Zion's, got cash, and took it back over... the owner was there again, and we settled our bill.... He had a stack of IOU's in the till, that people never had taken care of... made me feel a little sad that this lovely, generous man, was being taken advantage of...  sad.

So, in conclusion of this part of the blog, in Panguitch, William, and your boss from Scoops... You Rock!  Thank you.

We got over to the storage building at about noon or so, and started to unload... Our trailer, this time, was stacked with concrete tubes, foam insulation, and heavy duty sheeting for the walls, some TPM roofing, one enormous premade floor section of the shed building for onsite and the granite countertop that we had purchased last week.

The only problem was, the insulation was itchy, the floor section of the storage building weighed about 1000 freakin'  pounds, and the marble had to be about the same...  and there were two of us and a refrigerator dolly to get it off the trailer and into storage... We had called a local guy who we had set up to help us on occasion and got no answer from his cell phone.  This floor section is 10 feet by 6 1/2 feet made from 2X6's and 4X4's.

It was quite a feat... not something I want to repeat any time soon....  But, it all got put to bed and locked away, and Jim and I are now home and feeling good about the day.

As we always say, another grand adventure.

Cheri

SAT-UR-DAY - in Morgan, Utah

Jim and I had such a nice Saturday... had a fun morning with the grand daughters, spoiled them crazy, took them shopping, spoiled them some more, dropped them off, and then Jim and I took a drive up to Morgan, Utah....Where exactly is Morgan, Utah, you ask?  (I didn't know myself - Jim told me.....)

Morgan, Utah is about 30 minutes outside of Park City, Utah and about 30 minutes outside of Evanston, Wyoming......  It's a little town of about 3,000 people... the view to get to it, is spectacular.

Such a lovely day, and such a lovely drive....

Well, the reason we went, was to pick up some granite for counter
tops...  We're not quite sure which counter top it's going to be - I just loved the granite and thought it was beautiful... Had to have it..

Jim had to load it onto our trailer - he says it weighs about 300 - 400 pounds... I wasn't much help, but in the transportation department of my thoughts, I really don't help much... It's more of a spectator sport for me at that point...

Cheri

SATURDAY MORNING, 7:00 AM......

We purchased a glulam beam from a guy in Salt Lake several months ago... This thing is like 28' long and weighs a billion pounds... it's been in storage in Salt Lake since last fall.. Well, we decided to pick it up this past weekend.

Against my wishes, Jim arranged for us to pick it up at 9:00 am, Saturday morning.  This means that I have to get up at 7:00 am... Saturday morning, and shower and get put together by 8:00 am so we can pick up the U-Haul 26 foot moving truck and drive to Salt Lake by 9:00 am.. Really?  REALLY?  I'm really not a morning person... I think it morning came around noon or so, I would be better with it.

We pick up the truck, and get as far as American Fork when Jim realizes that he forgot to bring his tie down straps... So, we call Brianne... and you know what... she's not a morning person either...  We drive by their place, pick up TJ's tie down straps and carry on... I get a text from Brianne that simply says, "Fail on being up so early on a Saturday morning, Mom..."  I think she wanted to sleep in...

Anyways, we made it to Salt Lake, got the beam and brought it back to Provo...

 

The truck we rented was a 26 foot U-Haul... Jim backed it into the driveway, broke the branches off the Black Walnut tree at the end of the driveway.. (I just asked Jim what the tree was at the end of the driveway and he says, "It's a black walnut, or an English walnut tree... that's what you had ME mow down with the truck...")  I think he's a little bitter... Giggle.

The beam is now living at the side of our house.

Another grand adventure.

Cheri

Case Dealership

So, we went to the Case dealer yesterday to buy a couple more keys for the backhoe...  all the keys for these bad boys are the same across the board, so it wasn't difficult getting the right keys.

We were talking to the guy at the front desk and told him that we had a blog... he went to the blog and looked at it for a couple of minutes and finally said, "You two are having a blast, aren't you?"  We had to admit, we really were having a blast... and I think it's nice that it shows in the writing in our blog.

We are planning the weekends and weeks that we are going to be at Manzanita this summer.... all long weekends and most of the regular weekends also... gonna be lots of work, but so fun and I am really looking forward to it..

So, if you have a weekend off, and you want to drive 3 hours, sleep in primitive conditions (tent), eat over an open barbecue, and work your tail off for a couple of days, let us know... we'd be glad to have you!  (Seriously.... not kidding on this one....)

Cheri

Stuff We Took To Manzanita....Trip #2

List of Stuff we took to Panguitch:

Garage door
Garage door belt drive opener
Scaffolding - 12 feet
Door frames for Shed and Garage
Carved Mexican trim for Garage Door
Chop Saw
Concrete Anchors for framing - nut plates and nuts
Garage Door Track
Hand tools - shovels, scrapers
2 saw horses
Italian marble
Lag Screws
2 laminated beam hangars
10' step ladder

ONE MORE GRAND ADVENTURE

So, we decided to make a quick trip down to the property this weekend - we didn't expect to do any work, but we wanted to drop off at trailer load of building supplies to the storage unit we have in Panguitch.

We left Saturday, planning to come home Sunday afternoon.

Interesting place, Panguitch is.  We found out that about 90% of the town closes for the winter... That includes restaurants, hotels, stores..... And, in Hatch, Utah, about 99% of the town closes down... the restaurants, hotels, stores, AND gas stations.

We found a little motel and we checked in.  The owner of the hotel gave us a little piece of paper that listed all the establishment that were actually open.  At about 8:30 or so, we decide to go out and get some dinner.  We drive to the one restaurant on the list, and... it was closed for the evening.  So, we went to the gas station, got drinks and pretzels and cheetos, and that was our dinner.  We took it all back to the motel, and watched tv and snacked.

Sunday morning, we went back to the restaurant, and it was OPEN!!!  Great breakfast!  We decided to unload the trailer, and then head up to the property. We made a quick stop where we have our RV stored and pulled the battery.  It's going to be sitting for the next couple of months and we didn't want it to go dead...

 On our way up to the cabin, yep, blew a tire.  Jim gets out, pulls off the spare and it's flat... like really flat...  BUT, we are excited because we had a little compressor in the van.  It plugs into the cigarette lighter.... We got it all set up, and, the attachment to air up the tire wasn't attached.. Groan.

I called a couple of friends in Panguitch to see if we could get some help - no answer.  I finally called an acquaintance in Hatch, and he came and took Jim, and the flat tire back to Panguitch to see if they could find an air station.  About 15 minutes later, they come back.  Not only is the tire inflated, but, Jim tells me that the Tire store was.. OPEN!!  We drove back to Panguitch, and the guy waited for us to come back...  Two new tires later, we were back on the road!

It was such a nice day, we decided to drive up to the property.  It was nice and dry at the bottom of the road... however, about half way up the road, it was so muddy and wet, we had to turn around.  The van is covered with mud, the trailer is covered with mud - We're going to have to pressure wash it tomorrow to get all the muck off of it.

All in all, we accomplished everything we wanted - a few twists and turns, but still was... one more grand adventure.  (I am so glad Jim chose me to have grand adventures with....kinda like him...)

Cheri