Mid winter check-up

[markiver54]

Heading up to the cabin tomorrow for a check up to see if anything needs to be fixed or taken care of before spring. I will also take the appropriate gun/s in case any bears are lounging around. Just a day trip with no surprises, I hope.

[JEBar]

sure hope all's well so you can spend the time shooting

[markiver54]

Amen...it's been too long since I did. Hopefully, she'll want to stay long enough for me to do so. The fact that we are even going is a big plus though.

[Vaquero]

Hey Mark, hope you find everything in fine order and it's a nice leisurely day.
Hope the weather is cooperative also.

RP

[markiver54]

Hey Mark, hope you find everything in fine order and it's a nice leisurely day.
Hope the weather is cooperative also.

RP

Hey Randy! I appreciate that Bud.
It's likely to be a pretty quick turn around and hopefully will set the stage for next season...Ya know what I mean?

[dave77]

Do you have to do any winterizing to your cabin? I remember helping my uncle with his a few times. Had to turn off, disconnect and drain the water line. It only had running cold water to a kitchen sink so that was pretty easy. He had cut many poles to the proper length to brace the roof rafters from the inside. The cabin was high enough in the Cascades (at Lake Wenatchee for those that know WA state) that 4 or 5 feet of snow was pretty normal. More than that and it would have to be shoveled off. No modern heat, a wood cooking stove in the kitchen and a big pot bellied stove in the main room.

[markiver54]

Yes, we winterize no later than the first week of November. It gets pretty brutal up there in the winter. We also have a hot tub on the side porch that I'm very protective of...I love it, but it too requires TLC.
We are lucky, in that we are within 2 hrs drive from our permanent residence to the cabin, however, the drive up there is seldom easy. DOT is in the process of rebuilding the main hwy, (I 26) and it is a nightmare.
We have a local company, (up there) do the open and close for us so that they are responsible for any plumbing issues.

[BigAl52]

Have fun lifes to short for serious stuff

[Hatchdog]

Hope all is well when you arrive. Have the same concerns the first time we go up to our Northport WA place. No water up there but I always worry about snow damage. Enjoy the trip.

[markiver54]

Hope all is well when you arrive. Have the same concerns the first time we go up to our Northport WA place. No water up there but I always worry about snow damage. Enjoy the trip.

Thanks Hatch. We'll be leaving in about a half hour. It's only about a 1+1/2 to 2 hr. drive. I hear you about the snow damage. A lot falls up there. 2 years ago we had a gutter torn off. When we replaced the roof 3 years ago with metal, they didn't install any snow breaks, ( or whatever you call them ). The heavy snow slid down and tore the gutter off. . Still trying to get someone up there to do repairs and install the snow breaks. Trying to get contractors to go up there is not easy, to say the least.
The potential of a bear encounter would not be uncommon either. Hopefully they're all sleeping. Just not in the living room.

[Hatchdog]

Hope all is well when you arrive. Have the same concerns the first time we go up to our Northport WA place. No water up there but I always worry about snow damage. Enjoy the trip.

Thanks Hatch. We'll be leaving in about a half hour. It's only about a 1+1/2 to 2 hr. drive. I hear you about the snow damage. A lot falls up there. 2 years ago we had a gutter torn off. When we replaced the roof 3 years ago with metal, they didn't install any snow breaks, ( or whatever you call them ). The heavy snow slid down and tore the gutter off. . Still trying to get someone up there to do repairs and install the snow breaks. Trying to get contractors to go up there is not easy, to say the least.
The potential of a bear encounter would not be uncommon either. Hopefully they're all sleeping. Just not in the living room.

Sure hope you don’t fine a Goldilocks scenario when you arrive.

This is the building I worry about. It’s starting to list slightly to the right. Thankfully it has a metal roof that faces the rising sun and is pretty steep and sheds snow pretty well. There’s also a metal building with a low pitch roof but it sheds the snow pretty well. Both buildings were home built by my wife’s uncle and neither I’m sure were built to any kind of code nor had any kind of inspection when completed. He lived there from the late 80’s until he passed in 2007 so these buildings have stood for 30 years.

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[markiver54]

Well, we just got back..already. we didn't stay but about a half hour. No sleeping bears, however, one had pushed on the side of the screen porch where the hot tub lives. There was about a 12" size hole which I know was a bear because to the left of the larger hole, about two feet over, were clearly four claw size punctures right in line.
That is the only new damage I saw, so no biggie.

On the way home I stopped at my favorite LGS, ( where I bought two of my Henry's). Boy, have they gotten their gun inventory back up to par. I also picked up this box of 410's despite the cost.

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I need to go back when she's not waiting in the car for me. they had oodles of guns. Some Henry's as well.

[dave77]

I need to go back when she's not waiting in the car for me. they had oodles of guns. Some Henry's as well.

I hear that. Whenever I go to my LGS/hardware store with my friend I say "let's go look at guns", she says "we don't have time".
She does occasionally shoot with me but once I sold her my PX4 compact for home defense and concealed carry she has no desire to look at other guns.

[markiver54]

I need to go back when she's not waiting in the car for me. they had oodles of guns. Some Henry's as well.

I hear that. Whenever I go to my LGS/hardware store with my friend I say "let's go look at guns", she says "we don't have time".
She does occasionally shoot with me but once I sold her my PX4 compact for home defense and concealed carry she has no desire to look at other guns.

I don't think Carol has ever even held a gun, much less shot one. She has no desire. I guess that makes me safer.