The Gold Street Cabin In Mammoth, Utah

TOP TEN TOOLS FOR DIY BUILDING I’m a 71 year old retired English teacher, living in a camping trailer while building a cabin, mostly by myself. Here is a list of the ten best tool purchases I’ve made. First place goes to my Champion 9000 generator . If you don’t have powerline electricity, this is your first purchase. Get the best one you can. I’m not young any more, so it had to have electric start. It also runs on either gas or propane. I haven’t had to use the propane yet, but it’s nice to know I can. Second place is my Makita magnesium worm drive saw. Comparing a worm drive saw to one of those cheaply made, direct drive saws, is like comparing a cheap, quarter-ton pickup truck to a three-quarter ton truck with five hundred horsepower and four-wheel drive. They’re just not the same thing. Same with worm drive saws. There are disadvantages. They are expensive and heavy. Enter the Makita magnesium saw. Almost as light as a direct drive, it’s as rugged and powerful as a worm drive....

Apricot harvesting season Does anyone know what kind of bird this is?  He does not come to the hanging bird feeder.  He does this kind of scratching, stomping thing on the ground to find seeds.  When he spreads his tail, there is white on either side of his tail.  I think I have figured it out.  Just wonder if others concur. These were new visitors to the old birdbath.  Haven't seen them since.  With the apricots, they may be female western tanagers.  Barbara has been able to identify the males.  They are fruit eating birds. Don building a new bird bath.  First he had to level the spot. Then he built a foundation and walls with bricks. The finished product.  It doesn't blow away in the wind.  This little rascal ate up the bird seed, nuts, and fruit that were on the board to the right of her head before drinking the water in the bird bath. This little guy wants in.  He will walk along...

Barbara loves the lighting this time of evening.  Why the wind is catching the Trump flag and not the American flag is a question to ask. Don leveling the floor around the kitchen drain pipe, with a belt sander. Gotta be careful with a belt sander. It'll eat your lunch. Measuring to cut out the plywood subfloor to go around the pipes. It needs to fit as close as possible. Not enough room to cut the plywood laying down, so Don had to cut the slots vertically with his jigsaw. Just right! Leveling the next bit of floor. Some of the particleboard subfloor screws had come loose and needed to be re-tightened. Just a bit more work. Not a big disaster. A big disaster. In moving the fridge onto the plywood, both front feet (of the fridge) caught on the edge and folded over. The "right" way to fix it is to drive 30 miles (one way) to the nearest appliance repair store, buy a couple of new feet, drive home, take all the food out of the fridge, tip it over on it...

We ended last week on June 28th but after we posted, we had such terrific winds that we took more pictures.  We've heard that in Eureka, the winds were up to 88 miles an hour. It blew the bird feeder one way and then the wind would shift to the other side.  Those little black dots are seeds flying out.  It ended up completely emptying out the bird feeder, which had been nearly full when the wind started..  In calm weather, our next door neighbor's flag pole will align with the stove pipe on the house beyond it.  With two flags and the strong wind, it is pulled way off. We lost a branch off our apricot tree.  You can see the apricots on it.  It tore the tarp over our cabinets being stored outside.  Hopefully we get them in before more storms. A neighbor is tearing down an old mining shack to build a weekend cabin. Don received permission to add a few wheelbarrows of construction debris to his pile. It sure was heavy! M...