The Gold Street Cabin In Mammoth, Utah

Don's friend Charlie, from elementary, junior high, and high school, who came to help us after our electrician deserted us. He's a retired software engineer. While he was here for three weeks, Don was so busy learning to wire the house that he didn't have time to post on this blog. [Charlie was grateful for the mention, but didn't want his photo on the Internet, so I took it down. --Don] The upstairs, under-eaves closets are really difficult to insulate and sheetrock. Don has started on one shown here. Upstairs west wall. West wall at left, closet in center. Ceiling is insulated but not yet sheetrocked. Plastic covered area at top of photo has been left uninsulated so Don can build in the ductwork for the wind-powered, zero-energy-input, geothermal heating & cooling system. Reading nook built into dormer. Stairwell not yet covered with sheetrock, but bathroom is enclosed. East wall with balcony doors. The reading nook. Cha...

We're back--Sort of.  First a recap of what we've accomplished since January.  To begin with, we had a really hard winter.  Don would go out to work on the cabin and spend half of his working time shoveling snow so he could get into the cabin. One night, Eureka was covered with fog.  The next day, hoar frost covered all the trees.  It was quite beautiful. All of the insulation for the upstairs. Here is a gap.  There will be vents going up to wind turbines on the roof to extract the heat in the summer time. The orange buckets in the windows contain trees the Arbor Foundation sent because of a donation Barbara made.  The trees, Norwegian Spruces and two lilac bushes, were supposed to arrive at the correct planting time.  They arrived just before our hard freeze so we tried to keep them alive in buckets in the window. The plastic over the gap below is the wind turbine hole. Installing the soffits under...

Thursday, November 15, 2018 Wasted day. Got up late. By the time I got to Mammoth, it was time to go to my appointment for my job interview as a security guard at the LDS Church Movie Set in Elberta. Got the job. Pays $12.00 per hour, part time. My schedule is Thursday midnight to 8:00 AM Friday, and Saturday midnight to 8:00 AM Sunday, a shift nobody wants. Easy duties. Watch a camera, once a shift drive around and check fences. Make sure the set is okay by walking around it every couple hours. Rest of the time I can read, write, play the guitar, etc. Log everything I do. Got back to the house and discovered the power was off. Tracked down the electrician. Turns out he had killed the power so his apprentices could work safely, and they had all gone to lunch. Went to lunch. Got back and started to insulate and the compressor died. Carpenters are coming tomorrow early, so I had to make an emergency trip to Provo to exchange it for a new comprressor. It was only two months old, a...