Regular living

I went to the lot this past Saturday to try and get our last 2 loads of slash over to the burn pit. Alas, there were not enough volunteers to keep the pit open all day so one load is all I was able to transport. Looks like the other pile of slash will have to wait until spring to be disposed of. All the leaves are off the trees – fall has come and gone in the high country – and there was a bit of snow on the ground in shady spots. I did a bit of other clean-up work, had lunch in the RV, and then headed for home.

Leaves are off the aspen.

The remaining pile of slash is at the lower-center part of the photo. With the leaves off the trees, we can appreciate  how much of the lot we cleared this year, but there is still so much to do!

Pam’s “fall home upgrade” project continues; we moved the computer station around a bit. We had kept the previous configuration for many years so you know what the floor looked like when we started moving the desk, 2-drawer file, and other furniture around. Yep…enough pet hair to create a small kitten. New arrangement looks good, though, and should work better than the old one. Pam still needs to locate a small table to complete the set-up as she needs space to spread out paperwork when she works from home. Table needs to be narrow and no more than four feet long, not a common size, and will take a bit of shopping to find one with the correct dimensions.

Ebony’s kittens are starting to move around and get out of their box. They are singularly common-looking black cats and it remains to be seen if they can develop any personality traits that might set them apart from other kittens.

One of Ebony’s kittens

Speaking of kittens…

I was going through some archive video and came across a couple cat-related clips taken with my old Flip recorder. Here is a 49 second vide clip featuring two of our house cats, London and Antonio, from 2006:

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 I have a few of these that I will include in my posts from time to time. I hope you enjoy them.

Our son Toby should be here later this week for a visit and to take in the Notre Dame – Air Force game on Saturday. After that Pam and I are planning a Halloween trip to the lot (weather permitting)  to make sure everything is OK and do some clearing on the path where we hope to extend the driveway next spring. We would like to extend the drive a couple hundred more feet and get closer to the saddle. This would get the RV more into the woods — our RV pad would then be less exposed from the road. The extended drive would enable us to get to the upper portion of the lot for downed wood removal.  And, last but not least, an extended circle drive would mean no more backing the RV uphill after taking it to clean out the tanks.

Back on the deck in De Beque, we have built small fires in the fire pit a couple times. It’s nice to have a fire to sit around on weekend mornings and enjoy a cup of tea.  Due to fire restrictions and so much to do we never had the opportunity to sit around an open fire at Sanderling this summer.

The days pass and life goes on. Some trees are dropping their leaves in the high desert but not enough to get out the mulcher and get started on lawn raking. Temps have improved a bit; most of the upcoming week will be in the low 60s and above freezing at night, but a couple ski areas have opened and winter is not that far away. (I did get up to the roof to replace missing shingles over the weekend, a task mentioned previously.)  Now is the time for me to stop procrastinating about some needed but  long-deferred dental work. I’m not looking forward to those sessions but they have  to be done.

Next post should have details from Toby’s visit.

That’s it for now. Thanks for looking in!

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