Fully Vented

It was on the cool side, but nice enough out there to put another hole through the wall. The gas dryer is now vented. The vents are done. No more holes in the walls.

The two things on the lowest piece of siding that have not been fully painted around are the electrical boxes for the basement patio lights. I might get to them soon. I need to paint them first. The furnace vent is the smallest one on the right between the windows. The range hood vent is the black one up top to the left of the window. The dryer vent is the one near the bottom on the left. That's three vents on one side, the side with the garden view. I can already picture the cozy cabin belching steam next winter.



The top sheet kit for the under counter installation of the dryer arrived. The top of the dryer was removed and the top sheet put on. Now I need the LP conversion kit for the dryer to come. Once it is converted I will be able to call the gas company and have the dryer, stove, furnace and hot water heater connected. Perhaps they will do the final connect of the gas tank to the cabin at the same time.

All the appliances are basically assembled and ready to go. That wasn't so bad. Next up, counter tops, sink and garbage disposal. When the counter tops get here. That may be another week or two.



The snow is gone for now. I can walk around the garden again. If by some miracle I run out of details to work on in the cabin while waiting for the counter tops, I just might get some garden type activities done, weathers depending. It's near laughable to imagine me running out of things that need doing though. My gardening is snuck in between everything else.

The Bosnian Pine is looking content. Next winter more of it should be visible above the snow.



The Fargesia rufa bamboo has passed the evergreen test. It was completely buried. I did see a bit of freezer burn on one of them, but bamboo is good about sending out new leaves when they get shed for some reason.



Get used to snow drops. They will be prominently featured in the coming weeks. It turned cold again. That slows things down even without snow on top. This is the main patch of snowdrops. I think the two scoop from a shovel the last two years is a bit noticeable.



I think these daffodils grew during the short winter respite.



Before I went to the cabin this morning, I walked the ridge top garden and picked up the bulk of fallen tree branches and limbs. Last night's gale added a few more sizable limbs to the ground. It takes a while to get three plus acres of wild cultivated garden tidied up for spring. Little bits of time spent in the garden add up.



The next thing to work on is the chop and drop of the remaining dried stalks of the perennial flowers. I just wander through with hedge clippers and cut them down. I prefer that the bulbs not have to compete with a bunch of dead sticks visually in the vertical plane.



The Spots need to get out too after being cooped up for the last two months. During the recent warm spell they managed to spend some quality time outside.



But it had turned cold cold and we all headed back inside after just a brief stroll.