Shop insluation

The first load on the dump truck!
Lex Bonnie and I spent a Sunday loading it up with Insulation.

Justin is a great friend. He let us to go to his old building (at old airport) and remove some of the insulation to put it up at the shop. Anyone that has been to the shop knows that in the summer it can get very hot. Very, very hot!




Doug lined up some scaffolding for us to use (thanks Warner Construction)





Rock was great help (slave labor is always great) getting the insulation up the scaffolding to Lex and I stuffing it in the roof...



We was short some but as Justin's building gets moved over to the new airport, we will be able to get some more...

Presidents day storm

We had great plans for the family over the weekend but the weather was not on our side..









We had to keep shoveling the deck and the drive way about every hour to keep up with the snow coming down...







I did let up on Sunday afternoon, after about 33 inches...






I think that there is a a pretty good base in Duck Creek, don't you think!

Sled trouble

This is a photo of the jail out in Duck Creek meadow




all of that snow in just a few weeks and then the warm temperatures it has made the snow hard as if it was April




This was the only way to get around, lots of bent and broken trees.





The 800 waiting for a pick up....Notice the trees behind in the back ground

This is across the road from the ranger station looking at Duck Creek Lake

Clean up and cabin check

This is the road in front of the cabin

Back up to the cabin this weekend, we did some clean up of the trees in the drive way. I thought that cutting trees was tough when there standing, when they are covered in 3 feet of snow, the chain saw just does not want to work...I think that we will wait tell the snow melts.



Jon, and Lex came up and we went for a ride, not to far because all of the trails out of Duck Creek are blocked with trees that fell over in the storm...it will be summer tell it is all cleaned up...

This gives you a pretty good idea how deep the snow is. That's the bridge above Aspen mirror

Jon was checking out the tree damage

This is a photo looking over Strawberry Valley

What a storm at Duck Creek

This is country land above the store, power lines still down...



This is how all of the trees looked, just stuck with feet of snow




The road is still only one lane wide and some of the trees and power lines are still down




The power truck was not is a good place...

The trees are everywhere, and big!

On New Years day Bonnie and I drove around Hwy 89 and unloaded at Strawberry Valley and snowmobiled in to the cabin to see how bad the damage was. It was not to bad, just a broken rail on the back deck.

As you can see there are lots of trees snapped off, we counted some where in the twenty's

This is Hwy 14, ya lots of snow

The ice cycles where incredible.

New Years

Kai was nice enough to let us have a New Years party with her..(Road closed to the cabin because of snow)


So we got out the Dance party and Rock band...I have to admit that we a really bad dancers and worse band players...


But it was a great time bringing in the new year! Happy New year!!!

Bonnies Birthday

Not a big party this year..just some dinner before some bowling



But we was able to get a photo with the B-day hat.



Sherry was having fun with Kai at the bowling...Bonnie was even the winner for the night.

And she got to ride around on the horse....