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| Christmas Eve and Elizabeth's new scarf from Ella |
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| E and Joan |
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| Clean up time: even room for surfboards |
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| pickup sticks |
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| pick up sticks: where's this one going? |
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| Not enough sticks to pick up: let's take down some more |
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| Digging so E can lay out the marks for the green shed's new home as a pump house |
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| and more digging |
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| I'm outta here! This hill is a LOT easier to ride down than up! |
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| Friends & neighbors helping get the water lines glued for the well |
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| And this is when they finished New Year's Eve |
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| New Year's day: unprecedented sunnyness |
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| Checking that the old temporary power pole is really unpowered... |
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| ...before I start digging near it and taking it out. |
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| E laying out pipes for the gutter downspout drains |
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| E lollygagging around admiring the view! |
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| The view: snow on Marys Peak |
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| E and her new present from Dakota: a 3 way adapter, attached to her first electrical circuit in the house. |
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| Jan 2: Sunny, but not here yet and about minus 5 C (22 F) |
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| The water pipe that will end up under the green shed. |
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| Sun breaks out! |
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| Levelling the shed's new home |
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| Towing the shed |
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| Checking that we can get over the water conduit without breaking it: E and Randy the excavator |
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| Easy diggin' this way |
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| The difference between my skinny little hand dug trench and the machine trench. |
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| E at the end of the trench |
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| More digging: this time extending the electrical trench for the well under the shed so all the electricals are in the the shed out of the weather. |
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| Trenching the gutter drains |
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| A trench! |
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| Backfilling at the close of the day |
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| Jan 2 ends: still clear [it was about minus 2 C by now] |
