Random thoughts from the moose cave.

As a joke, I often bring home a small piece of brick or stone or tile....then during a convo, go into a small coughing fit and let the piece of material fall on the table.....hand to mouth, cough, clunk....and then say....oh that's much better.....usually good for a laugh.

I am nearly always covered in splatters of mortar and dust of some sort...and more than I'd like to admit, blood....tile can be very sharp, last night I was just picking a piece up and it broke in my hand, almost went thru the webbing between my thumb and index finger of my laying hand....the left....oh man is it sore tonight.

got the pad laid.

what a lot of work bricklaying is...

looks ok. not perfect. but it will support a 75 pound iron stove.

gonna hafta shower tonight.

fer sure...

(no blood yet)

done with fuel tank wrestling for today.

It's safely on the ground, with 20 gallons of fuel still in it.

gonna wait for help draining it. when I'm done installing the new pump, I will have mortar money to finish the wall.

went and peeked at it this morning. (about 2 pm) and it looks pretty damn good. all things considered...

special thanks to 6packs.

I think tonight, I'm gonna get my bathroom floor ready to tile...

ok, I'm too clean to wanna go cut cement board.

So I think tonight we will go get the big ass hole in the great room ready to start getting smaller...

got square edges on one side of my hole now. with solid wood I can attach to.

gonna be about 10 x 15 time I'm done.

then I gotta re-insulate it and lay plywood.

the slab is drying nicely nicely...

checkin' out now for a while.

y'all play nice...

Just checking in with you. How are things going? Getting the place winterized?

things are currently rough, and unworthy of note on the forum.

will report back when there is good news...

Hoping good news comes to the cave soon, Rock.

we are ALL done moving.

and got a new used toilet, finally... (been waiting 2 weeks) plumbing and septic to follow next week.

water drains all function now. but we're gonna have walking water for a while, it looks like.

and the roof leaks less.

good as it gets for now kids.

(oh, and we have lotsa wood)

When ya can flush, life is complete.

I gotta finish my tea and go fix the roof.

swirling winds have found the weak spot in my defenses and there is a banging noise that has Stinky aggravated enough to come tell me about it...

tomorrow is my first real test. it may not make it out of the teens, with a brisk north wind.

gotta love kansas...

Anything you are in need of that we might have around the house to send to you?

nice warm days...?

actually no, I have been donating extry stuff to the salvation army already.

the cabin is only aboot 400 square feet.

with two litter boxes.

very minimalist.

Heh, I'd say that you are in great need of air fresheners, cat litter and an exhaust fan! Phew!

actually no.

the kids are both rather fastidious...

it smells mostly of wood smoke (hedge and a bit of cedar), unless I am cooking something.

ok.

dint know where to put this, and did not really think I wanted to start a scat thread...

I am tracking coyotes. and mebbe a deer.

I remember once on here, I think it was here, someone linked a cool site that identified different kinds of poo.

anybody else...?

OK, let's see if I got this.
You want a website that tells what coyote crap looks like.
This is so you can track some coyotes down.

Wouldn't you rather know what their paw prints look like?
Or do coyotes **** really often?
And what are you gonna do with them once you find them?

I'm a city boy.
This is all new to me.
I tend to avoid animal poop as much as possible.
And coyotes.

I have large canine footprints. larger than my dog by a margin.

I have spots where something beds down and mats the grass.

trying to get the lay of the critters on the land.

gotta huge milo field behind, and lotsa trees (for Kansas) between the cabin and the fields...

I think I wanna take their picture.

not really sure...


(I'm not looking to kill anything)

oh, and I hear lots of coyote songs after dark. sometimes verra near...

and I know we have deers, cuz I hit one with mr vw's turyoda pickup.

ugly mess that was. (truck lived)