Issues and projects

The first sighting of bear activity, as in bear scat at the top of our driveway. Mark cooked salmon on the grill -perhaps that caused the pass-by visit. At any rate, bear spray & alert eyes are now in order when walking...of course there was only one real sighting and that was last July!
Never had taken a photo of the one room schoolhouse for the miner's families. They built it way away from the main Baldwin town - probably due to unhealthy influences, i.e. saloon and dance hall...
The big deck staining project is finished, with little help from moi. Mark spent hours yesterday doing the second half while I helped to hang art for the show that starts Friday at the Gunnison Art Center. I have two paintings in it, but before you think congrats are in order - it's an open show, meaning any fool (oops,I mean talented artist) can enter. It's a sweet center on a small scale, with more emphasis on dance (yes, Krissy!) than anything else. I'm happy to be involved on the visual art side. The gallery "opening" is tonight - I'm dragging Mark along - should be entertaining.
Back into the routine of getting my hair cut at the little house/salon in town. Sooo inexpensive compared to Naples, and homey, really homey. She did a good job today - happy about that...hair is a big pain in the you know what, I think.
Our water guy came back for the second time in a week. We were noticing a metal smell & taste and not happy. He is adjusting some things but said that it really could be as simple as the spring runoff from the mountain snow melt. What?? Don't really know what our well is tapped into - all we know is it goes down 400 ft - hmmm... The peak runoff should be over soon, so we'll see.
Finished book #32. Really good novel that has recently come to light 60 years after it was written. Not a light subject though, France during German occupation in WWII. The book is unfinished as the author was sent to a concentration camp and unfortunately died there. Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky.
Ben our fence guy just showed up in an ATV just to check out any winter/animal damage. Everybody is service with a smile around here.