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Chicken Coop – Retaining Wall

First step, flat spot. Unfortunately we don’t have a flat spot where we want the coop.

Black box approximately where we want the new coop

Layout proposed flat spot. ~40 inch drop from high to low spot

Load of gravel from local quarry, pretty sure I overloaded the truck but seems OK

First load of blocks; pretty sure I overloaded the truck again but seems OK

First row was the toughest… spent a long time getting it level

Second row was easier, but learned the corner was going to be tricky

Lots of earth moving to do to get a flat spot, but getting there!

Happy Birthday Emily!

We celebrated Emily’s birthday last night by having folks out to the new house.

The weather was awesome and we enjoyed a great evening on the new deck.

We had 30 guests through the afternoon and evening.

We stayed the night for the first time and really enjoyed it! Can’t wait to move in!

We have had a busy winter, working on the new house, and training for and running the 25k hagg lake mud run. We did many training runs, exploring the school forest around our new house, including in the snow.

Didn’t get a lot of pictures from the mud run, but here are two the folks from the race took, and an after-race look at our shoes.

New Deck: Contractors are almost finished, just a few last touches before this outdoor phase of construction is complete. We meet with the architect this week to discuss the interior work.

Emily’s Birthday Weekend

For Emily’s birthday, we took a trip up to the gorge and stayed at Edgefield. We went for hikes on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday and had a very nice weekend.

Thousand acres park

Ramona Falls

The dogs especially liked playing in the snow!

Mt. Hood

Latourell Falls

New Hammock

Charleston, SC

Emily and I took a trip to Charleston for Lyn and Peggy’s 50th wedding anniversary and had a great time. In addition to three great parties we got to hang with some of the cousins, take a boat trip, and kayak trip as well.

New Year 2018

For the new year we headed over to the coast to Rockaway Beach for the weekend. When we got there on Friday it was very stormy and windy on the beach.

The rest of the weekend, however, was beautiful weather and the dogs went crazy on the beach!

We did a real nice hike on Cape Falcon

We had an amazing New Years eve dinner (thanks Ed!). People could not stop raving about the Yorkshire pudding.

On the way home we had a real nice lunch stop at Pacific City!

Happy New Year everyone!

The Bus has arrived!

Oval has a little brother, Rhombus!

This is the three week picture of his litter. Totally ridiculous!

Rhombus is the grouchy one third from the right.

My friend, German, was kind enough to drive to BC with me to pick up this little critter. We had to leave Oval at home. She was real sad she couldn’t come.

I liked his breeder, Judi, a lot. In addition to raising a beautiful litter, she told me that when her friends asked what a Rhombus is, she explained it is kind of like a drunk square. It was a bit of a tough time for Rhombus, though. He had to leave his litter of 10, plus his mom and a couple aunties and drive for two days to his new home. This was the only way he would sleep.

We were lucky enough to have an overnight pit stop in Olympia to visit Lauren and Ed and show Rhombus off a bit. We had a beer at the Oly Taphouse to celebrate Rhombus and Lauren’s new job!!! Rhombus had many admirers.

We made it home yesterday and Rhombus finally got to meet his new Dad and big Sister. Oval was a little overwhelming for him at first, but she gave him lots of space and only interacted with him when he initiated it, so he quickly grew to trust her.