SEA-Horse Corral - photo album

Stewart's Corral

Photo Album - from Curlew Lake to Kettle Crest
1st year and building
NE Washington state

page 6
visitor #

for family & friends
enlarge to 640x480	2002.Feb.12 Moved in. One trailer. "Only" 8 inches of snow.
enlarge to 640x480	2002.Apr.04 Progress in building: 2 cabins & 2 tents up. Motivated by living in travel trailer in this climate! Ever tried to keep the water and fluids flowing in winter?? Question: What is the R-value of a trailer with 1.5 inch thick walls? Answer: Not enough 2nd question: What is the R-value of the holding tank? Answer: zero
enlarge to 640x480	2002.Jun.04 2 months later: 4 cabins up. Looking SSE up Lambert Crk. valley
enlarge to 640x480	2002.Sep.10 Planning garage / shop.
	2002.Sep.17 View of cabins.
enlarge to 640x480	2002.Nov.25 Garage/shop walls going up, looking N
enlarge to 640x480	2002.Dec.03 Roofing. Today's high temperature was 32.2°F
enlarge to 800x535	2002.Dec.31 9" of accumulated snow. Milking outside is not what could be called Fun.
enlarge to 640x480	2002.Dec.31 Goat shed attached to garage/shop, looking ESE goats are finally out of the tent!
enlarge to 640x480	2003.May.28 Building forms for house foundation & walls
enlarge to 640x480	2003.Jun.02 Concrete pour requiring pumper from Gallup's Concrete Pumping
enlarge to 640x480	2003.Aug.21 Trusses going up.
enlarge to 640x480	2003.Aug.23 Trusses in place, garden growing well, hillsides dried out.
enlarge to 640x480	2003.Sep.16 Windows are all in, next is finishing the outside before winter.
enlarge to 640x480	2003.Oct.11 Painting progress made possible by the weather being warmer than normal this autumn.
enlarge to 640x480	2003.Nov.02 Painting halted by arrival of winter. This angle looks done (on the outside).
enlarge to 640x480	2003.Nov.02 Placed last water line and filled last ditch before ground freezes. The autumn colors are nearly gone as the snow and this week's windstorm herald the arrival of winter.
enlarge to 800x600	2004.Jul.09 Garden growing, summer has finally arrived: hillside is now drying out.
enlarge to 640x480	2004.Aug.03 Not so dry today! 2.4 inches of rain in thunderstorm downpour lasting 1½ hours
enlarge to 800x600	2004.Aug.13 Garden really growing.
	2004.Jan.06 Artic freeze, coldest snap since winter of 1996, breaks record low. Thermometer shows Max and Min for the day. Reports of -30 to -40 in the valley.
enlarge to 640x480	2005.May.29 Begin foundation for barn.
enlarge to 800x600	2005.Jul.11 Making our own cement to fill foundation.
enlarge to 640x480 enlarge to 800x600	2005.Jul.25 Cabins sold and moving out.
enlarge to 640x480	2005.Jul.28 Foundation done.
enlarge to 640x480	2005.Aug.24 Walls going up.
enlarge to 640x480 enlarge to 800x600	2005.Aug.28 Roof going up.
enlarge to 640x480	2005.Aug.30
enlarge to 800x600	2005.Nov.06 Sunbreak on new snow.
enlarge to 800x600	2005.Dec.02 7+" of snow.
enlarge to 800x600	2006.Jul.01 Siding completed.
enlarge to 800x600	2010.Oct.05 An update showing autumn colors in the apricot tree. Half of garden is harvested and cleaned up.
	Weather charts, including: temperature high,low since 2002.Feb
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Other Corral pages:

SOUNDS on page 4 Now 33 WAV files.
Scenic Willapa Valley. Personal photo album on page 5: wooded trails, mountains, valleys.
7 hi-res photos and 2 triple width panoramic photos.
Republic Scenery Photo Album on page 7
11 hi-res and 1 quintuple width panoramic photos.
Goats and Horses photos page 8

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