Arrived at property around 1PM to partly cloudy and cool temps around 50 degrees. All is well here except mice have invaded food again in trailer and left a mess. We are here to do the winter shutdown and to empty the water barrels. Gate was open but no sign of people. Some road work was done. looks like around .50" of rain over the past month. Battery was at 14.4 volts. Winter is on the way.

Arrived at property around 1PM for a quick 2 day trip. Sunny and bright today with temps in low 60's. Precip for the past 30 days has been .40". All is well except mice have invaded the trailor again and eaten some grain and poison and have promptly died. We must find a solution.

We left this guy in charge at the property. No worries at all!!

Just returned from our 2 day trip. Perfect weather with temps near 80 degrees in the day and around 55 degrees at night. Bill broke off screws on loft ladder. Smoke from the Tripod fire stayed away until just before we left. Turns out that the T-storm that moved across the Property several days ago dropped .40" of rain. Total since late May is 4.62" of rain. When we arrived at property there was a small bat sleeping in our solar panel. We saw him fly out for the night at dusk. We heard Coyotes, Owls, and saw quite a few deer. All is well at homestead. We watched 2 episodes of Deadwood and watched Wild Bill Hickcock get gunned down, sad day in Deadwood! Headed out this morning to eat at Ourplace and arrived home at 1:30PM.

Heading over to property on Thursday, Aug 23 for a 2 day visit. It has been a very dry and hot summer with little rain. A large fire named the Tripod fire has 
been burning about 20 miles west of us for the past month and has grown to over 120,000 acres.
Today a severe T-storm moved directly over the Carter mtn complex. Here is the  warning:

Thunderstorms are continuing to generate in the northern Cascades near the tripod complex fires. Individual storms are tracking eastward from the fires with the largest storm about to emerge from the cascasdes into the Okanogan Valley west of the town of Tonasket. Shower and thunderstorm activity will continue through the evening for the areas near the tripod complex fires and the towns of Oroville...Tonasket...and Conconully. Expect cloud to ground lighting and gusty winds with some small hail in these thunderstorms.....

I hope that no lightning fires were started. We will see.  

Arrived home today after a very good trip! Heat wave is on the way! It is very good that we went when we did. Weather was perfect!

We arise at 8am June 22nd to sunny beautiful skies and perfect temps. Bill and mehead into town for breakfast and some food supplies. We return and Biil and Lee hike up to Carter Mtn and I remain to catch up on some much needed sleep. Bill repairs roof shingle issue and we prepare for Trout and pancakes!!

We awake to sunny skies and perfect temps. Happy June 21st, Summer Solstice! We head in to town to eat breakfast. The Udder place has closed down. We eat at Whistlers and have a good meal. We then head to Fish lake and Lee and Bill catch 3 nice Rainbows with ease! We head back to property and have Spagetti and bread. We have nice fire and retire to bed. Peaceful evening.

Arrived at 1:30PM on Tuesday, June 20th to Property with Lee waiting at the top gate for us. Perfect weather with partly cloudy skies and temp in low 70's. Place is very green and all is safe. Rain guage shows that since our last trip in May there has been 4.15" of rain! Very impressive indeed. We eat steaks and potatosprovided by lee and have a relaxing rest of the day. Evening is cool with few bugs.

We are heading over to the homestead tomorrow for our annual Summer Solstice trip. Lee will meet Bill and myself over there on Tuesday, June 20th. We plan 4 days of relaxation and fun. Weather looks almost perfect with temps between 75 and 80 degrees!

Looking back. We had a good 1st trip (this year) to the property. The Bunkbed assembly was the prime directive. The Engineers at IKEA must be top Knotch. We had no trouble putting it together. We had nice weather for the most part. Saw Deer. Heard two Hoot Owls late at night. Ron saw what he thought was a Grouse. The Blue Jays were making fast work of the corn I installed. Chipmunks were also gathering around the feeders.

Headed over to Property to deliver and set up new bunk bed. Arrived Saturday 5/6/06 at 1PM to Partly cloudy skies and temp in the mid 60's. All was well. Very green and moist ground. Appears that winter received above average precip. Bunk bed went together very easily and we completed in less that 2 hrs.


I set up the rain guage while Bill placed fresh seed out for the critters. We drank coffee and Dr Pepper in the evening and had a troubled night sleep. Beds are very comfortable tho. Headed home around 8AM and went by the New Lee Franks in tonasket. We then stopped at Our Place for a very good breakfast. We arrived home around 1PM after driving thru rain showers from Blewitt Pass to North Bend.

Headed over to property at 8A> on Friday, March 31st, for 1st trip of season by myself. I arrived at property at 1PM to discover too much snow still on road from Turtle lake cutoff and up towards our place. I hoofed it up to check out things. All looks as we left it. Headed back to Leavenworth to spend the night. Arose at 7AM on Sat April 1st and headed out. Had Breakfast at the Buckboard cafe. Good food. Hit heavy snow on Blewitt Pass with several spinouts involving speeding drivers. Arrived home at 11:30AM to recover. We will have to deliver and set up new Bunk Beds during our early may trip.