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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.