Sunday, June 30, 2019

36 Hours To Montana

At 6pm June 27th, 2019 we headed out on a quickie trip to Montana to check out that house we like.
We stopped in Coeur d'Alene at midnight and with arrangements to meet the realtor at 1pm we had time for a side trip to Cataldo Mission. It was beautiful outside and inside the buildings


Some of these photos are from the two previous times we were there but I only took 153 this time so had to borrow.

This triangular shape building is technically a fruit cellar I think but for shits & giggles I call it the UNDER GROUND BUNKER.
 The owner used it for storing paint and it doesn't have built in shelves. I does have a drain in the floor but the floor is still damp/wet. 



Going down...
It was about 70* outside and a good 20* cooler inside


It measures approximately 8' X 8'. If we could find a way to get it dry inside, I think adding a bunk bed on the back wall and maybe a teensy chair & table + overhead bare bulb light would be fun. I think people would pay for spend the night there.



The Columbine & Iris along the front side of the house are beautiful



We took a hike up to the top of the ridge on the back of the property and kept finding jaw bones.
Not entire skeletons, just jaw bones.
Many, many jaw bones.
Like 50 jaw bones.


This awesome gate blocks the road so not just anyone can drive on it. It goes through our the property and winds up the hill to the ridge.



This is the view up there, pretty amazing.


We followed the road to its natural end, at our the neighbors house.
This is the view of the front pasture from his place.


And this is the view from the road at the corner down from the entry gate.

We took John Henry with us and she must have run about 10 miles. I know she went farther than I did and I got more than my 10,000 daily step goal.
She was one tuckered out girl.

We returned home Friday night just before midnight.
We are more than ever ready to move and have been packing more boxes. Lan thinks we're 2 weeks away from listing our house & making another offer to the owner.

Friday, June 14, 2019

Annual Pass

Mount Rainier in 2001


Mount Rainier 2019



We bought an annual pass to the National Parks


Took a wonderful trip there today with the hubs


And it IS PARADISE


The Lodge is beautiful. I want to stay there someday


Reflection lake is beautiful. If it were a clear sunny day in western Washington we'd have seen the mountain in it.


Took a short hike and found this


Saturday, June 1, 2019

Kitchen Finished

We've been working on the kitchen for a couple months now and today it is 
FINISHED.


My brother helped install the range fan/vent yesterday


We saved $1,200 by putting the tiles up ourselves. 


See that little cabinet on the far side of the stove? 
It doesn't match but we needed that exact size and Habitat For Humanity had it 
& it looks pretty dang close to our other cabinets.

This is the view people will see when they are walking into the house.


This was the view 2 years ago


This is the first time I ever saw the kitchen