First Snow

We woke this morning to falling snow. We'd expected what the weather report called "a dusting", but it snowed off and on all day, mostly on, and by dark we had a good 6" of snow on the ground, the deck, the tables, the cars, the railings, etc. Like children we bundled up and went out to play. ~B

Burning Hot for Winter

So we went to the Fire Safe Council meeting last month (it was my first and Brock's second). These are groups (65 in San Diego county now) set up and formed to keep our cities, woods and mountains free of wild fires. The Fire Chief responsible for the National Forest where our cabins are located spoke as well as the cabin owners who have been elected Pres., VP, Secy, etc. I found it fascinating . . . more so than this man . . .

. . . an elected SD county Board of Education official (and cabin owner) who comes to all the meetings and functions up here on the mountain . . . but within about 15 minutes (no matter what the event - picnic, meeting, social dinner) falls asleep. I wonder what the Board of Education does with him - he's not a real heavy snorer, so that helps . . .

But after the meeting we got a chance to ask the President of the Cabin Owner's Assoc. where we might find/buy some firewood for the winter. He told us he had more than he could use (is that possible?) and we were welcome to use the old Fire Safe Council pick-up and haul it to our cabin.

He even helped us load the truck - TWO FULL truck loads of clean, nicely chopped/split oak and pine from trees near his cabin.

So after a few weeks, Brock built these cribs - other stuff is still in piles on the ground for now . . . my wagon, ready to roll! ~N