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Thursday last week Beau and I headed up to the treehouse/cabin. We worked hard. He kept track of the ground squirrels and chipmunks. I worked on the gate; it is almost as functional as it should be! Other tasks included a major interior rearrangement and cleaning, as well as moving and stacking of cut wood. There was also a sleep very late morning and a studio day – more working with found wood pieces, paying attention to the lines and forms. I am enjoying the process and look forward to seeing what is waiting this weekend. We leave tomorrow and are going to try staying until Sunday. There’s a lot of post construction clearing up to do (mainly raking leftover stuff out from under the cabin and disposing of it) and I  may or may not be able to resolve the gate issue.

The photos above were taken with my iPhone (this week my camera goes with me!). The night of the 12th was the full moon. The sun set in the west just as the moon rose in the east, all I had to do was turn my head. Late in the night a large owl was hooting, coyotes were singing back and forth across the ridges, a cow elk was calling and being answered by a male, bugling. There was also a large critter “whuffing” for a while, probably a bear but it didn’t get close enough for me to tell.  A magic night.

I’m trying to go up as often as I can while the weather is conducive. Tomorrow marks 4 months since Michael’s passage. It is helpful to me to work on the treehouse and the property, seeing it to fruition for him, making it a place my daughter and son-in-law and I can use, more easily. In another week or two it will be too chilly up there and my attention will turn to getting the yard, gardens and house here in town,  in order. The studio work begun in the mountains will be easily picked up here and completed.