Rain
Yes, the weather has started to turn up in our lovely mountains. It should probably get warm again for at least a little bit, but the lovely, long, warm days of summer are finally over. On Wednesday night we had our first autumn rainstorm, and today it is raining again. I was fairly certain the rain was coming on Wednesday, so I managed to get just about everything under cover that needed to be covered. Matt helped me get even more things under cover yesterday, so we’re in pretty good shape now as far as rain is concerned. We were at the property for most of the morning, but the kids (Gregory especially) started getting cold so we thought we’d retreat to Matt’s grandparent’s house where Matt’s mom had a pot of soup on the stove and some bread in the breadmaker. Being on the property in the rain is a lot easier at night than it is during the day!
As I think I’ve mentioned we do have a trailer, but it is currently up on the well road. We needed to get gravel on the road before we brought the trailer down onto the parking pad and thankfully we were able to do that before the rain started. We also have a septic system in place (it was finalized on Friday) so we should be able to hook the trailer up to the septic once we get it down. We have a friend who is going to help with that once it stops raining - we’ve tenatively scheduled to do it on Monday. Once it is down we’ll put in the new battery, hook up the propane tanks, and see if we can get the systems fired up. I’m really hoping that we can do all that without too much trouble. Once that’s done we should be able to move into the trailer sometime in the next week or so. I’m glad the weather has turned like this because it is making me look forward to living in the trailer, despite the cramped quarters. We went up and spent some time in the trailer on Thursday morning because it was still cold and damp. Emma enjoyed being able to color on a flat table rather than a picnic table covered with a tablecloth and Gregory helped me poke around at the various cupboards and such as I tried to figure out where everything is. It was really nice to be out of the wind for a little while!
I’m somewhat sad that our time in the tent is drawing to a close, because I’ve enjoyed living that close to the outside elements - especially when they were fairly benign! I also enjoyed being able to easily transition between typical inside tasks like cooking to outdoor ones like gardening. For some reason when I am living in a house the door seems like a big obstacle to me - like I need to always have a big block of time available in order to go out and work on something outside. I’ve really enjoyed this blurring of the boundries and how it has allowed me to shift from different tasks so easily. I hope I can retain this lesson and continue to do this, even once we do move “indoors” - or at least more indoors than we’re living now!
And last but not least, here’s a picture of Gregory that Matt’s Mom took last weekend. Gregory was getting really tired in the workshop so Matt got Gregory’s chair for him and put him in it. Gregory promptly fell asleep and proceeded to sleep there for about an hour.
