The good weather lasted through my birthday so we could have a BBQ and bonfire at the farm and now the drizzle seems to have set in, but we have plenty of action at the farm! The metal roof is getting assembled on the weekends by a friend, the septic and electicity are getting hooked up in the next week or two, and the root cellar has shelves! It's a little treat everyday for the first person to open the door to the root cellar and breath in the fresh cedar smell.
I finally got to plant the 'living roof' over the garage a couple of weeks ago, so now 100 heather plants of 20 varieties should take root and bloom at different times of the year with fun splotches of color. We interspersed a bunch of pavers for some color for the first couple of years while the heather is small, and then I mulched with pine needles around each plant.
The big excitement this week has been the insulation going in, a mix of mostly sheep's wool blown into the wall cavities behind netting (a non-toxic though not hassle-free material), some 'eco-batt' under the radiant floors, and lots of semi-toxic 'Great Stuff' spray foam that will hopefully off-gas before we move in. The wool has been a bit of an experiment because of the metal stud framing and many little spaces in the walls but we're hoping it expands to fill the nitches and live up to it's supposed R-value. It's experimental enough for the owner of the insulation company to take video footage for his blog ;-)
Also, a cool shot here of the track of a large cat we crossed on our first snowy hike of the season, in the hills out of Cle Elum last Saturday. It was opening day of deer hunting with firearms and we saw 9+ hunters as well as a pair who shot a 180 lb. buck at 8am and were almost done dragging it to the trailhead when we passed them again at 4:30pm. It was a nice wrap-up to a fun climbing summer. I didn't lead as many trips for students as I'd hoped but got to climb some great more challenging routes on mountains like Hood, Logan, West McMillan Spire and Rainier with friends.
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