DIFFICULT WINTER

Well this was definitely a winter to remember! We have lived in this home for going on 23 years and this  year we had more snow than we have seen here in all of the years added together. I was so very proud of both of our sons who came down and over to assist us in these troubled times. Both of them are men of great character.

Janice had let Sadie, our German Shepard out to potty before bed, and said Sadie went down the ramp and looked in the carport like something was there. Janice came and told me, so I got the flashlight and walked down to have a look. while down looking in the carport, I could hear a lot of cracking and crunching, then one really big crack. I turned and got Janice and Sadie back into the house. I told Janice that I thought we were going to loose the carport, and no sooner had we sat down than CRASH. The carport collapsed onto both of our vehicles.

This was the first look at the front of where the carport should have been.

This was the starting to dig out phase which took most of the first day.

This is the first look from the back side, you an see the carport resting on the jeep and the Truck.

Our tractor really got a work out moving all of the snow and roof parts around.

In this picture it appears as though the truck took most of the damage, it just looks like it from this picture.

Starting to make progress.

The snow is finally off the entire roof, now to start taking the roof off the vehicles a piece at a time.

Coming apart in pieces.

Making Progress!

This is an area at the from of the carport that got something shoved through the wall into a kitchen cupboard.

This is inside the kitchen cupboard where the hole was poked through.

This picture shows on spot that some of the support structure broke through the house into the master bed room.

This is inside the Master bedroom where part of the carport came through the wall

The Jeep dose not look too bad.....

Until you get closer.

or unless you look from the rear

The truck on the other hand really does not look good from any angle!

Not too bad from the back if you don't look for a cab

Left side definitely seen better days!

Hey, a little body putty, some paint no one will ever notice.

More to come at a later time!

WILD NEIGHBORHOOD

I was thinking that over the years we have included some very good times, but really nothing of our surrounding area. To state it simply, we live up one of the Coastal mountains, at roughly the 1500-foot elevation. By road it is 4.5 miles, according to Google Earth, the ocean is roughly two miles straight line distance. we have several neighbors of the human variety, and many of the wildlife variety. I was given copies of a couple pictures taken, and this is really just a guess, 500 yards from our house. the location of these neighbors is across a log narrow 10 acre piece that starts just behind us, it is 300 feet wide (I think) by how ever long. we hear the Cougars in that 10 acre piece a lot, but they hang mostly over by Frog Lake, roughly another 400 yards.

The above picture was taken 8-13-21 at 9:29.40 PM. this is a mother wearing the collar of a trouble animal. The reason the /cougars live here is due to an abundance of deer, the cougar's favorite food.

We also have Bear, Elk, Foxes (usually Grey) Bob Cats, Racoons, Opossum, Squirls, chipmunks, and a immanent other wild creatures. I lost a great Picture showing one cat climbing a tree about halfway to the first branch, actually I think the third predominant tree to the left side of the frame I believe was the tree.

This photo was takin by Janice , at any rate just some of the Elk on Grizzly Mountain, we have seen them as high as Frog lake and just up the road from us. we used to have deer come through our yard all of the time, in fact when we moved in we had two does raise twins here on our property, then the Bucks moved in. I was sitting by the sliding door looking out over the deck, and low and behold there were nine Bucks down on my driveway. I decided I would slip out the other slider (at that time we had two sliding doors) , any way I opened the other slider as quietly as I could and low and behold there were seven more bucks on the upper driveway. A total of sixteen buck deer from spikes to four by fours, and it was not even season. however they hung around for several years, and I was able to bag a good share. 

The above picture was taken during the next year, in this picture only the two yearlings are visible, but to be sure Momma is still around. Its funny really when we first moved into this place going on 23 years ago. we were having phone trouble and I was waiting out by the phone box for the repairman. when he arrived he just blabbered making no sense for several minutes. when he was finally able to speak he said excitedly Cougar, Cougar, I just saw a Cougar at the corner of your driveway. Strange that was the last time I saw that particular repairman. We had Goats for years, Babies every year, we have now switched to cows, well a cow and a steer she birthed. we have never had any bad thing happen with Cats and bears as neighbors, just saying!!!!

Oh, I forgot the Banded Tail Pigeons and the wild Turkeys!