The Three Day Building Bonanza (tm) is complete. There is no muscle left unstrained in any of us, including me, Mr S-P, our neighbor, Elsa, and Murray. We all hurt everywhere. But after three hard days of work, never leaving the mining claim until well after 7pm each night, it’s totally different up there. The upper walls are built on the east and west sides, and the five rafters between them are in place. There is still some finessing to be done before the roof decking goes on, but the guys were able to pull the bigger tarp that I removed from the tepee over the top, and it’s well-enough protected from the weather. It went up just in time. A major thunderstorm rolled over as we were leaving after dinner in Idaho Springs.
We went down the same route last night, and the difference one day to the next was startling. I showed you the few bits of aspen color we saw on Thursday’s trip. By dusk today there was more than double the amount of gold in the forest. By the time we go next, the leaves will be predominantly golden. It feels like an early fall, and not one of us is complaining.
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