Since my last post, we have continued working on outside infrastructure projects. About 2 weeks ago, our plumber came and completed the hookup of water lines and sewer to the shop building. On the same day, we had 8 dump truck loads of topsoil delivered and dumped around the perimeter of the house.
The plan is to spread this out on top of our very rocky soil before planting a “Dry Site Lawn Mix” in the late fall, just before it snows. This should then sprout in the spring. It won’t exactly be a lawn, but will provide a grassy ground-cover around the house that we can mow, but should require little watering once established. We also had some crushed rock and gravel brought in to make some improvements to the driveway and create a new parking area near the house, across from the carport. Rick plans to build some steps that will come up from that area to the corner of the deck.
New parking area, and topsoil spread ready for planting
Somewhere in there, I finished up the 3 collapse weave scarves in brown/reddish tones. Traded one of these with my friend at Backcountry Coffee Roasters for a “coffee credit”!
We have had more visitors. Juno loves visitors! My cousin Ernie and his wife Mary, who live down near Mt. Hood in Oregon, came through on a loop up to Anacortes/Camano and then over the North Cascades to see us:
Mary, Ernie & yours truly
The following weekend, our friends who own the Real Mother Goose Gallery in Portland, OR came for 2 nights. Somehow I failed to take pictures, but they had not been over this way in a long time and had not yet seen our home here on Wolf Creek. It was also their 40th anniversary so we took them out to the Arrowleaf Bistro in Winthrop for a nice dinner.
More “visitors” – all the bucks are hanging out together these days. Some of them are in our yard almost every day.
Last week we went down to the Twisp River Pub for the Wednesday evening “Jazz in the Beer Garden”. My brother had told us the visiting guitarist, John Stowell (from Portland, OR) was really good. No kidding! He was playing with Terry Hunt, who isn’t too shabby either, plus a bass and drums.
Last Friday we went to a moving sale down in Carlton and came home with a little Ryobi electric log splitter. We tried it out this morning on some rounds that refused to yield to the splitting maul last year. It is fabulous! and not scary or dangerous. It just slowly presses the log against a wedge at the right end. Irresistible force meets (as it turns out) moveable object!
We still have to get one or two more cords of wood for the winter, which come cut to length but not split. This is going to make life so much easier!
Twisp of Fate 
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