Just chillin on the way to Beaver

Our amazing garden in Beaver

So many of you are asking, so here is a quick post re: the Beaver garden (pictured in the next post).

We have everything you can imagine planted.

Pumpkins, cantaloupes, tomatoes, squash, carrots. I can't even think of it all.. but you name it, and it's probably in there. Corn! You can't have a garden without corn!

If Matthew is doing good, we'll head up on Sunday. Tim is running tubing for our water thru the house right now. Almost ready for the rough inspection.

OH OH OH, can you believe USAA dropped covering our cabin??????

After being an A+ customer of 14 years paying and NEVER filing a claim...
they dropped the cabin ... they have covered the cabin for 1 1/2 years now.

I kept record of every single person I've talked to in two years... they all knew we were building a log cabin.

Cabin pic

Our big garden

Our garden

stairs to the deck

working on Kim's balcony

finished cleaning all the walls inside.. ready for caulking and staining or protectant.

Just got out of hospital w/ Matthew, been real busy. He'll be home on oxygen for a couple months.. hopefully in a couple weeks he'll only need the oxygen at night. This illness really kicked his bupp. He's still not feeling good. Poor little guy.

Matthew will spend a couple more days w/ his nurses and RT's

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He can't keep his oxygen levels up when he's sleeping... even while on 2 liters of oxygen.

Matthew is in the hospital w/ respiratory problems

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31 years ago in June

Wow... check out the difference in these two pictures! Our friend Mark, who owns Mountain Lighting up in Cedar City, Utah fixed up this very old picture ... he did an awesome job!!

I was only 17... my sister Kim was 16 and my brother Keith was 12. Mom and LeRoy got married June 2 1978. I was about to graduate from high school. I took off for Alaska right after I graduated (with Casey's dad). Wow... gotta love the 70's.... and those polyester pant suits!! LOL

Upstairs balcony

Septic tank/line, power line and water line in!

Water line from the well to the cabin.

Power line from the house to the transformer box.

Our first "clean out" for the septic tank line... in case we have anything get stuck...yuk.. in the line.
Working on the septic tank line... we had to go 180 feet from the house to the septic tank and leech lines. Needless to say, the tank is very deep b/c they had to make the line go down at an angle so everything would roll nicely into the tank.

Matthew's Blog: ECHO & EKG went great today

Matthew's Blog: ECHO & EKG went great today

My childhood friend who has a place in Beaver too! Chris, Jim and Taylor. We were eating at the famous Maria's in Beaver.

Matthew enjoying a trampoline jump on the built in tramp over at Trish and Av's.

Silly boy! Matthew and his glasses....LOL

*big sigh* Quixa got tangled up in some barbed wire or something!! Ripped about 5 or 6 inches of her skin from the underarm down.. it was nasty. Had to take her to the vet over in Milford for some stitches. The shirt keeps her from licking the wound.

Poor girl... that must have realllly hurt! But she looks so cute in this shirt!

Our first water line to the house w/ a Manabloc system.

Our main electrical box and meter.

Pulled the trailer out for the first time in about 6 years to take to Cedar for servicing.. and to fix the heater that quit working last winter.

My new pink "mud boots" Mikey bought me. I love pink!

Baxter hanging out on top of my poor pregnant Spookie. Spookie should have these kittens any day now!! Kittens having kittens... what are ya gonna do??

This is where the corner tub will be in the master bath.

This is the service cable for the power... this thing is HEAVY!!

The drainage line going out the basement wall ... to the septic tank. Now that this is finished, the excavator will come up and dig out our 180 foot line to the septic tank.

Cabin pics

Standing on our neighbors deck looking towards our cabin.

Getting that entry way deck up.

This is the Beaver Courthouse!! Isn't it darling!! Love this small town.

Latest Beaver Cabin pics, in random order

Matthew and Mike at Home Depot in Cedar City. Matthew loves going in w/ his daddy while I sit in the car w/ the bird, dog and kitties.

The master bathroom corner "garden" tub. Kim will have a jet tub in her bathroom, too.

The interior doors. I believe Mike said this is "alder" wood.

Front w/ the side covered porch. Can't wait for the stairs!

I was standing down the side of the hill to take this picture.

I encountered lots of deer pooh pellets while roaming around down the hill. They are eating all the little trees Mike planted.

My favorite spot on the porch. Such a fantastic view and breeze! We'll be putting a porch swing there on the end.

Dining room and living room area and Matthew's room up top.

View out the dining room window. The upstairs bathroom plumbing. Tim is doing a great job.

Guess we get the railing very last.

Me and my little green girl, Aimie... Matthew in the back seat. This is one spoiled parrot.

We had such fun time.

It was very muddy, we thought we were stuck when we first drove in. Rainy and cold the first couple days.

We had lots of good dinners and yummy Amish bread.

Update on Joel: He is checking out of the hospital right now as I type .... no one knows how or why this happened to him. He will have to go get blood drawn every few days ... then eventually once a week ... still has the clot in kidney, but he's on a blood thinner. He'll go back for more tests in six months. I feel sorry for him. To spend almost a week in the hospital, but not really have any answers.

Wood burning stove up and running!

We love that 8 inch stove pipe! We get great draft.

Our first fire.

We love how big the opening is... we could stick a stump in there!