November 21 - More small projects and snow

It seems like September - November have become lodge project months.  This is hard to believe since we usually spend most of fall attending Cal Football games (instead of working at the lodge).  But now that Jim is retired, we have more time for projects and we can still attend the Cal games (this year Cal has struggled with the loss of our first and second string Quarterbacks during the season - but that is another story).

This week Jim worked on getting the mantle for the new cast iron stove stained and continued to work on the railing on the "updated" deck steps, while I did some stone tiling in the snow entry room.  Photos below.

We also had a bit of welcome snow this week.  We are hoping for a lot more next week (cross your fingers and spin around 3 times while saying "let it snow, let it snow, let it snow".  We are inching closer to Christmas.  Expecting about 30 this year for a 4+ day celebration of Santa, Snow and Schnapps.

Oh, and since I am a bit late in posting this,  there is a photo included from Big Game.  We beat Stanford 24 - 20.  Go Bears!