The Gold Street Cabin In Mammoth, Utah

These upper mountains look like they are floating on the clouds.      Some things have been done this week which actually make a difference.  Don is helping prepare the bathroom for painting.  Barbara did most of the taping, mudding, and painting. Every bathroom needs a nice, big cabinet to hold all the extra lotions and potions. Especially if it's OAK. Oak's HEAVY. Gotta build a "fixture" to hold the cabinet up so Don can screw it to the wall. Didn't get it all the way up yet. It's REALLY heavy! Tried several ways to hold it, but none worked, until... Our friendly neighborhood giant to the rescue! Ta-da! Next, the dressing room needs a door. But the door frame isn't plumb and square. A few shims will fix that. Score each shim with a sharp knife, and break 'em off with a hammer. Easier than sawing. Install the lock, and we have a functioning door. Except it turns out that the door itself is warped, so Don has to get a replacement from The Home Depot. O...

 We haven't posted in a long time.  It is not that the work doesn't continue but 1) just coping with winter takes a lot of time, 2) much of the work we are doing is repetitive of work we have done before so it doesn't show anything different, and 3)we've gotten out of the habit of taking pictures so we don't have much to show.  We had a surprise visit last week from a couple (Brent and Claudia Watson).  They have followed our blog and were taking a road trip and decided to stop by and see it.  So what has happened? The snow is now all gone.  The deer come less frequently--probably because there is more food available.  Also, a neighbor reports that she has seen an injured deer and reports poaching.  Also, we've seen neighbor dogs chase the deer when they come into the neighborhood. ABOVE: Our "deer friends" and some of the last of the winter's snow. BELOW:  Don finally got around to designing and building the "returns" for the stair handr...