https://indeepblog.com/2021/10/31/frame-up/https://indeepblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/frame-with-vapor-barrier.jpgframe-with-vapor-barrierhttps://indeepblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/frame-w-geofabric.jpgframe-w-geofabrichttps://indeepblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/framing-first-day.jpgframing-first-dayhttps://indeepblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/slab-before-pour.jpgslab-before-pourhttps://indeepblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/preparing-the-slab.jpgpreparing-the-slab2021-11-03T15:29:25+00:00monthlyhttps://indeepblog.com/2021/08/11/and-were-off/2021-08-13T19:18:22+00:00monthlyhttps://indeepblog.com/2021/08/01/groundbreaking-news/2021-08-12T03:32:16+00:00monthlyhttps://indeepblog.com/2017/11/05/calling-miss-manners-2/2021-08-02T03:15:30+00:00monthlyhttps://indeepblog.com/2017/05/26/lucky-still/2017-06-07T18:34:08+00:00monthlyhttps://indeepblog.com/2015/11/01/the-adventure-of-a-lifetime/2017-01-05T00:28:18+00:00monthlyhttps://indeepblog.com/2015/03/21/spring-showers/2015-03-22T02:54:23+00:00monthlyhttps://indeepblog.com/2014/12/22/the-death-of-winter/2014-12-23T03:17:02+00:00monthlyhttps://indeepblog.com/2014/11/02/here-comes-the-sundog/https://indeepblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/p1040697.jpgP1040697The Endhttps://indeepblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/p1040683.jpgP1040683https://indeepblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/p1040689.jpgP1040689https://indeepblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/p1040688.jpgP1040688https://indeepblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/p1040668.jpgP1040668Ella checks out Sundog's potential as a playmate.https://indeepblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/p1040636.jpgP1040636https://indeepblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/p1040651.jpgP1040651Richard cleaned all manner of debris from home improvement projects off the deck, making room for pond-side dinners on the warm September evenings during his visit.https://indeepblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/p1040643.jpgP1040643Turning compost is time-consuming, unless you can get someone else to do it! In my best Tom Sawyer fashion, I convinced my brother, Richard, that it was fun!https://indeepblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/p1000753.jpgP1000753Sundog, rainbow of the darkest days.2014-12-12T02:41:56+00:00monthlyhttps://indeepblog.com/2014/06/22/lucky/https://indeepblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/p1030840.jpgP1030840Evening at Blue Moon Stead.https://indeepblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/p1030890.jpgP1030890Gary pulled in several tons of loose hay while undergoing chemo.https://indeepblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/p1000148.jpgP1000148Brushkana cabin with addition in progress.https://indeepblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/p1000098.jpgP1000098Gary building addition to our cabinhttps://indeepblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/gary-open-studio.jpgGary open studiohttps://indeepblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/dsc02104.jpgDSC02104Gary glassing2014-06-24T22:25:36+00:00monthlyhttps://indeepblog.com/2014/03/03/promises-promises/https://indeepblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/p1040115.jpgP1040115A snowy day, March 2, 2014https://indeepblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/p1040114.jpgP1040114March 2, 2014https://indeepblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/p1040111.jpgP1040111Mira wasn't shy about curling up on Ella's bed with Ella's sock monkey.https://indeepblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/p1040113.jpgP1040113A winter's day in March by the fire.https://indeepblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/p1040132.jpgP1040132This varied thrush is enjoying the buffet of birdseed on our deck.https://indeepblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/1982099_10203040073180884_1588474149_n-1.jpg1982099_10203040073180884_1588474149_n-1Scott Janisch took this beautiful photo of Mt. Adams from our "backyard."https://indeepblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/p1040118.jpgP1040118New snow on the tractor!https://indeepblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/p1040100.jpgP1040100Our little cascade grew so big it sounded like a driving rain everytime we stepped outside.https://indeepblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/p1040101.jpgP1040101Overflow from the pond made an impressive new creek from a usually-dry drainage.https://indeepblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/1794645_10200891912933990_819741442_n.jpg1794645_10200891912933990_819741442_nChris and Kristen made easy work of grooming the ponies.2014-03-08T04:50:40+00:00monthlyhttps://indeepblog.com/2013/11/16/catching-up-the-seasons-of-summer/https://indeepblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/p1040054.jpgP1040054The remodeled kitchen was finished in early July. There is a wall of bookshelves for my cookbooks behind Ella.https://indeepblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/p1040048.jpgP1040048Ben and Gary built a fire pit near the pond so we can sit under the stars on the rocks by a warming fire any time we want.https://indeepblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/p1040049.jpgP1040049Gary put up the bell (yes, filched from Chimney Rock); now we can call each other in from the fields and forest. He's with Ben and, of course, Ella.https://indeepblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/p1040037.jpgP1040037Gary unloads large stumps he'd wrestled onto the truck, and prepares to split and stack the wood.https://indeepblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/p1040009.jpgP1040009Our friend Terry came up with the idea to extend our new metal roof partially over the deck. The old cedar shingles are now being used as kindling -- frighteningly good kindling.https://indeepblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/p1030974.jpgP1030974Ella took this photo of (from left) me, Gary, Heidi, Terri (with Charlie), Glenn and Mercedes, mid-August.https://indeepblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/p1040040.jpgP1040040Our enclosed garden sits alongside the ponies' corral. Behind it is our high tunnel, still under construction.https://indeepblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/p1030937.jpgP1030937Gary's niece Kristen places an orchard box of tomatoes into the new garden enclosure at the end of July.2013-11-19T00:19:30+00:00monthlyhttps://indeepblog.com/2013/06/14/while-the-sun-shines/https://indeepblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/p1030757.jpgP1030757"Before" shot of the kitchen.https://indeepblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/p1030871.jpgP1030871Did I mention we found morels? Not enough to get rich -- this was most of the crop.https://indeepblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/p1030909.jpgP1030909Gary's work on the kitchen remodel. Cabinets have since come in, just waiting for countertops!https://indeepblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/p1030908.jpgP1030908Our Great Blue Heron overseeing the pond from the raft.https://indeepblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/p1010412.jpgP1010412Konnal and Bess exchange neck rubs.https://indeepblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/p1030890.jpgP1030890 Gary mowingGary mowing hay, with the horse-drawn mower hooked up to the tractor2013-10-15T19:40:41+00:00monthlyhttps://indeepblog.com/2013/04/21/the-great-escape/https://indeepblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/p1030856.jpgP1030856Gary and I meet Konall, April 2013https://indeepblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/p1030774.jpgP1030774If we don't see deer on our hill in the evening, we're not looking!https://indeepblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/p1030830.jpgP1030830Driving East on the Columbia Gorge.https://indeepblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/p1030862.jpgP1030862https://indeepblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/p1030870.jpgP1030870Drader, with his handsome dark forelock and black-striped mane. Duchess is in the background.https://indeepblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/p1030859.jpgP1030859Gary with Ken, the ponies' breeder, and his friend Bill, with Konall in the background.https://indeepblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/p1030849.jpgP1030849The ponies arrived last Monday!2013-04-27T05:22:30+00:00monthlyhttps://indeepblog.com/2013/03/21/gearing-up/https://indeepblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/p1030547.jpgP1030547Another before-we-bought-it photo - this is the main entry downstairs.https://indeepblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/bess.jpgBessBess, who will turn 11 in May, and her 9-year-old sister Duchess will be joining us in April.https://indeepblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/p1030598.jpgP1030598A "before we bought the place" shot of the kitchen; the cupboards are now history.https://indeepblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/p1030805.jpgP1030805Gary's lifting the new wood-burning fireplace insert up to the second floor.2013-03-25T03:37:49+00:00monthlyhttps://indeepblog.com/2013/03/07/buckets-and-buckets/https://indeepblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/p1030733.jpgP1030733Ella earned her swim.https://indeepblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/p1030792.jpgP1030792Snow has covered my tracks, but there's the wood I dumped on the porch!https://indeepblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/p1030773.jpgP1030773The barn (left) is still standing! https://indeepblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/p1030767.jpgP1030767My maiden voyage!https://indeepblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/2007_spring_hood_river_bridge.jpg2007_Spring_Hood_River_bridgehttps://indeepblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/p1030722.jpgP1030722 yard and pondWhere's Waldo?https://indeepblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/p1030790.jpgP1030790 Ella at the creekElla's helping me with my work.2013-03-25T03:38:57+00:00monthlyhttps://indeepblog.com/2013/02/26/repotting/https://indeepblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/p1030727.jpgSide view cabin P1030727Side view of our cabin, with my Forester and tiny trailer to the right.https://indeepblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/p1030582.jpgBucks sparring P1030582The magic of Chimney Rock - bucks sparring in front of the house.https://indeepblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/p1030726.jpgOutbuildings P1030726Barn (left) and dorm building for the theatre camp. And Gary, of course.https://indeepblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/p1030730.jpgCreek P1030730Our noisy little creek.https://indeepblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/isyxqv17ta69b7.jpgMount Adams from Blue MoonMount Adams rising up behind our pasture.https://indeepblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/cropped-p1030743.jpgElla in pond -p1030743.jpgElla fetching a stick in the pond.https://indeepblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/p1030745.jpgP1030745Cabin amidst the trees from the paddle boat on Blue Moon Pond.2013-03-01T20:40:19+00:00monthlyhttps://indeepblog.com/about/2013-02-09T20:17:34+00:00weekly0.6https://indeepblog.comdaily1.02021-11-03T15:29:25+00:00