April showers

We came up the following week on a Thursday. Gerald had bought a new fire pit, and we had what was probably our farewell fire in this one. Like our entrance sign, it was a victim of natural causes. Snow had gotten into it and frozen. When it thawed, the whole bottom fell out. A gift from Gerald's daughter, Christy, it served us well for probably hundreds of fires. We bid it a fond adieu.





J.C. came up on Friday with a helper to attach the exterior portion of the flue from our fireplace.











On Thursday, Gerald had painted it green in the hopes it would blend in with the roof. The color was a good match, but it was a little more prominent than we would have liked.










When that job was done, we asked Jeremy to install the corner pieces on the siding, which were too high for us.











Old Santa Fe Lumber delivered the rest of our siding. So with the corner pieces installed and the rest of the lumber on site, we could finally finish up the siding.

Unfortunately, I checked the rain forecast for the area. It called for a 90 percent chance of rain that evening and a 70 percent chance on Saturday, which foiled our plans.

Since we hadn't had any rain for more than a month, it was hard to regret the rain. But we decided we'd be more comfortable if we headed home, so that's what we did.