Tuesday, January 17, 2012

August - November 2011


Pattie, Melanie, Rylie, Noah, Brandon, Alayna, Jim, Carol and Katie spent a weekend at the Lodge and attended the Grass Valley Nevada County Fair – a really fun small town event.  The kids tried gold panning.  Jim got to ride on the flying helicopters with Brandon.  And Noah and Brandon rode the motocross motorcycle ride. We had a great time.



Jim had a mini – Cal Berkeley reunion (35th anniversary of our graduation) at the Lodge with long time friends. Visits to the local waterfall, swimming and kayaking at nearby lake, bottles of wine and stories & laughter made a great weekend.



Carol’s best friend Karen and hubby Larry came up for a day trip to the Lodge toward the end of summer. Carol, Katie, Karen and Larry went on an explore on some dirt roads to Big Valley Flat (about 12 miles past North Fork) and got to see the Royal Gorge from about 7000 feet. It was awesome.



Jim installed more windows (to get ready for the Christmas Holiday).  To date, he has replaced 15 single pane/cracked/rotted windows with double pane windows.  Of course, with each window replacement, there is a need to remove the old wallboard (which seems to be made out of a lightweight fiberboard with little or no insulation behind it), reframe the walls with new 2 by 4s, add insulation, re-wire and re-drywall.  The main floor windows are all in now which makes the lodge a lot warmer and less creaky. 




 

In September we got our first 2011/12 snow so we thought we might have an early winter. 



Soon after, Jim got busy building a snow diverter for our electrical mast on the outside of the Lodge and repaired some of the loose metal roof covering.  He also cut down and cut up 6 LARGE dead cedar trees that Carol then split for our three cords of winter firewood..




In November – more snow at the Lodge.  We had enough snow at Thanksgiving for Jeremy and Brandon to get in some pre-season sledding.  We were all psyched about how much snow we could expect for Christmas Holiday.  

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