Quiet first days of Spring

The truth be told, it was a quiet week. Spring arrived with more moderate temperatures, around the home front there was not a lot going on. But…here is an update on a few of our projects.

We ordered our 10×12 shed this week from Sunset Buildings in Colorado Springs. While ours will not have the windows pictured below and will be painted tan, here is a manufacturer’s photo of the shed:

Our King model shed. (Mfg. photo.)

As noted before, this is a top-of-the-line shed and we hope it will last a long, long time. Sunset will hold it for us until we get the driveway extended to the saddle where  we want the shed to sit. Our unit will have a wider (5-foot) door to facilitate getting equipment in and out.

In other “lot” news, a local lumber yard – Sutherlands – had their annual spring sale featuring 15% off all purchases. We had taken advantage of this last year to buy railroad ties, pavers, and gates for the lot. This time around we bought fencing, personal gates, more pavers, and various odds and ends to be used on improving the Sanderling property. The fencing and gates are for a semi-permanent dog run (hopefully good for several years); Pam wants containment so the dogs have a secure place to move around [dig!] while we work. We bought enough fencing to build a (roughly) 40×20 dog run. It will take us a full day or better to get this built.  We will likely relocate the dog run in the future, once house plans start to take shape.

Stuff (mostly dog run) for The Lot

We will store the stuff in the aluminum trailer (under a tarp) until we can get it up to the mountains.

I ordered a solar panel kit (80 watts) from Northern Tool to help supplement the solar panels installed on the roof of the RV.

Solar panels for the RV. (Mfg photo.)

I plan to re-mount the 3 existing panels (total of 60 watts) as well to improve their performance, giving us more charging capacity. I hope to leave the generator home this year, at least until the shed is in place and I need more electrical power for various tools. I would have waited on this purchase but it came up on sale so I went ahead with the order.

We are going to have a bunch of “stuff” to take to the lot once the snow has melted and we can begin working on our various projects. This will still be a while; although daytime temps at 9,000 feet are above freezing, night time temps are still in the teens and twenties. The snow will not totally disappear up there this month. I hope to get over to the lot next weekend and check things out.

So, other than ordering “stuff” and going to the sale, it was a quiet week. We had some rain here but higher elevations received snow. Powderhorn Ski Area, which we can see from our back deck,  picked up 6 inches of new snow out of the same storm. The mountains around here are at about 127 percent of normal snow  (aka: snow pack) for this time of the year. Daytime temps are in the upper 50s – low 60s but it is still below freezing at night. Not yet time to break out the lawn mower. 🙂

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

Pam’s Two Cents Worth:

Happy trails to you, until we meet again

Happy trails to you, keep smilin’ on till then

Who cares about the clouds when we’re together

Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather

Happy trails to you, till we meet again.

I guess Roy Rogers and Dale Evans had an actual “club” on TV back in the day, it stretches the beginnings of my memory to recall much more than Trigger (Roy’s horse).  I do remember the two of them singing the Happy Trails song in two-part harmony.

Roy Rogers and Dale Evans. (Studio photo.)

Happy Trails.