Eggs, smoke alarms, early spring, and sawdust

Early spring seems to be marching on here. The big snowstorm only produced an inch at our house and melting has commenced again. Pretty sunrises, rivers with rushing water, and still cold enough to have roaring fires in the fireplace everyday. Not so bad...

Lots of activity going on here - inside. The basement finishing project is in full swing. Framing is done, and now we're awaiting the plumbing fixtures. What a world - I ordered all of it online from the same company I used when we were building the house - faucets direct. A great site with terrific prices and very efficient service - hoping the truck gets here in short order. A nice thing about having your original builder doing a renovation, he cares a lot about the work and the state of the house. He immediately sprung into action and climbed up his high ladder to patch and paint where one of our beams had done a little settling. And changed the battery in our highest unreachable smoke alarm. You know that annoying beep, beep of the smoke alarm battery going dead (usually happening at 3am) - well, we heard it in one of the upstairs bedrooms, which are not easy to change either with the high ceilings, but Mark managed all but the one.

Picked up eggs at the farm. Lots of signs of spring there. Piglets abound (the pigs and the chickens roam together. Fun stuff. One of the pyrenees dogs stood guard over all. The sheep baaing loudly in another pen. Love it...

The ski mountain closes soon - April 8, and with it go all the out of town people. Hence the restaurant closings in CB for off season. A long off season - until mid May. Don't know what all the wait staff does about money with their 2 or 3 jobs, but it happens every year - I'm sure they plan for it.

Finished another book - have no idea at this late date where I got the author's name, but it was entertaining and there are two more in the series I'll get. A murder mystery set in New Mexico with a UFO twist. The Clovis Incident by Pari Noskin Taichert.
Mark back from Detroit for two weeks. Good stuff...