We went to our Boles Aero trailer in the mountains to make repairs.  Far too many mice have been getting in, and it was time.  We decided to mesh the whole bottom of the trailer to try to prevent any future ingress.  Here is Tom under the trailer starting the process,

After putting mesh under the front of the trailer, Tom tilted it, and we were able to access the back.  We had dug the dirt out from under the back too to give extra space.  I was on the shovel quite a bit.

Monday evening we took time off the root for the USA football team against Belgium.  I had made Old Fashioned for us and used some pretty cool stir sticks.  Despite these efforts, USA didn’t do well and lost the game.

I took Ryeleigh for long walks each morning as well as on some of the afternoons and evenings.  We  happened by Steve’s gravestone on Tuesday morning.  You could still see Piper’s flowers (now dried) and stones.

Tom concreted in new supports for the back of the trailer.  And we made sure it was level.

He did the same in the front.

Ryeleigh and I did another walk in the afternoon, and I was scoping out the foliage.  This was a gorgeous flower on our walk.

I also found some berry filled scat.  It didn’t seem big enough for a bear.  Tom thinks it might have been from a coyote.

The bushes have really grown in after the fire destroyed the trees now > 10 years ago.  It almost looks like a planted native garden.  It is all so pretty.

I did make time to knit while watching the World Cup.  This was for the Switzerland and Columbia game.  So far I have knitted sheep in my scarf for James, Spike, Jocko, Diddley, Jemima, Hershey, Abbey, Jewel, Mutiny. Jethro, Lonny, Rhett, Donna and Logan.  As I took this photo though, I realized that I was knitting the sheep in the wrong orientation.  I briefly thought about keeping it, but I decided I was a good knitter and I ripped it out and started over.

On the Wednesday morning dog walk, we happened upon the site of the now burnt down castle Greg built. It is really growing over.  The view is still nice though.

We were flushing quite a few quail out of the bushes.  But we disturbed an owl into a tree branch by the creek too.

Back at the trailer, we were more level and working on more supports for the front of the trailer.

Here’s the side view with the extra support and more level.

On the Wednesday afternoon dog walk, it almost felt like we were walking on an old wagon trail.  It wasn’t though, just a quad trail.  But it felt primitive.

More of the pretty bushes filling in the hillside.

I was using my PictureThis app to identify some plants I didn’t know.  Here’s what I found:

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By Wednesday afternoon the Boles Aero was pretty much fixed.  Just some construction clean up needed.

After dinner we watched antennae TV.  On Wednesday we saw 8 Days to the Moon and Back.  It was a cool program about the Apollo 11 mission with a lot of original footage and photographs.  It was pretty cool.

Thursday morning, Ryeleigh and I headed to the old Settlers’ cabin that had also burnt.  Pine trees are starting to grow where it had been.

On the way back, I noticed a pine tree that had recently toppled.  It had been quite windy the night before so that may have been the cause.  It was sad to see though.

Here’s the build sheet for our trailer, built in 1969.  Now hopefully it will last a lot longer.

I had been raking up the dead grass and pine cones around the trailers and surviving trees.  Here it is after my efforts.  The hope is that if there’s a spark in the area, it will not start a fire and burn our remaining trees.  Hopefully the effort pays off.

I knit and watched the France and Morocco game.

Tom and Ryeleigh also watched.

Then in the evening Ryeleigh and I walked the west portion of the property.  We visited an area we hadn’t been to before.  It was dramatic.

The evening sun looked nice on the Boles, now with the construction debris moved out.

Yesterday evening the twilight was beautiful and peaceful.

This morning we were packing to leave.  Here is the view from Dad’s cabin’s loft of the Boles.  Everything seems fixed now.  No signs of mice after two days so that is a good news.