When we left the lodge a week ago, it was very windy. So windy that the traffic on I-80 came to a complete standstill at Davis due to poor visibility. The winds were epic and caused power lines to fall all over Northern California. That resulted in the Napa, Sonoma, Mendocino fires killing over 40 people and burning thousands of acres of prime wine country. Thousands of homes were lost. So I guess we were pretty lucky that the wind only took off 3 of our new roof panels on the Screened-in Porch. So cancel tree cutting, still split wood and fix the new roof.
Since we had a log splitter reserved, we started Saturday with splitting all the rounds that we have been stacking in front of the water tanks, in front of the game room and over by the backyard gate. We ended up with over 6 cords of wood (mixed cedar and oak). We are ready for winter!
Once we got all the wood split, we moved onto repairing the roof (Sunday). Jim did most of the work - while I helped him and worked on cleaning up the debris from the storm.
Then we updated some of our wood storage area that used to be tarped by adding our old aluminum roofing to the top of the storage pallets.
On Monday, with Jim gone, I started loading all the wood into our storage areas and then stacked a lot in front of the water tanks (the wood by the gate and the game room is still in a big heap).
And finally, since we are adding a cast iron stove in the Screened-in porch, I built a slanted roof log storage holder that I put on the small deck for this winter.
We still need to add the ridge cap to the new roof (2 weeks from now) and get those darned dead trees cut down.
One more thing. While Jim and I were clearing some of the debris from the new property, we found and old car canteen (rusted out of course). They used to hang these on the front of the cars and used them to cool down hot engines while crossing the Sierra. It looks small in the photo - but it is actually at least 16" diameter. Goes well with the Model A engine guard we found a few months ago.
We also found a Lea and Perrins glass bottle stopper (with the plug part broken off). Vintage 1860 - 1910.
No gold yet. We just keep hoping. . . .
