Winter Camping

Winter Camping
So last weekend I set off to go winter camping in one of my favorite places. Yep the Boundary Waters. A good time was had by most. Except probably for the guy who fell and hit his head before we even started hiking…and also by the girl who ended up driving him back to civilization.

We hiked the 3-4 miles into jap lake. It kind of sucked cuz there wasn’t any snow so it was either icy or mushy. Plus some of our secret trail had had burnt last year so we had to make some new routes in. It was beautiful on Friday and Saturday. I mean we could wear t-shirts and luke decided to wear shorts. We caught lots of yummy lake trout. Which was a good thing because if we didn’t we would have went hungry. Since we planned on eating them for dinner. We even caught enough to bring home.

Sunday morning we woke up to rain…which sucked. It is bad enough packing up gear when it is raining but also when it rains it turns the ice on the lakes into slush. And also melts what snow is left. Needless to say our packs weighed more coming out than they did coming in and the trail was messier on the way out. Oh well I am sure that we all fell a few times but no big deal. Although I was pissed I ripped a hole in my nice rain jacket. Guess that means time for a new one..

Best part was that is was so sunny nad the sun reflects off of the ice so we all came back with good tans. And we got some good food on the gunflint trail on the way out. I can’t wait to do it again next year!!

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

So this has not been a good week!!!! First off take my car in to get its 65000 mile check up and find out that I need new brakes plus a couple of other things!!! No big deal but then I find out he has to wait for some parts cuz no one on town has them so I have no car for 2 days!!!

Then yesterday my phone stops working. Yes I have no phone currently. My phone will ring but I can not hear you and you can't hear me. Also the only button that works is the one to turn it on and off. I can't dial any numbers of anything like that!!!! Why do cell phones have to be so stupid. It is only a year and a half old. you think they would at least work for a year or two. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Dining Room

Here are some photos from my dinning room. I was lucky enough to get all the furniture that is in that room from the previous owners. It is all old mahogany and is in really good condition. If I didn't have this furniture the room would probably be sitting empty. I didn't post a before picture but all the walls and trim were just plain white. I know the carpet is a little scary but that will have to wait to be replaced. I want to replace I just can't afford to do everything at once.

The pictures are in order to provide a 360 degree view or wait I should say 180. If you cant tell since the lighting wasn't that good when I took the pictures the walls are now a earthy brownish color...otherwise known as dusty trail or at least that is what the paint company calls it.The mirror was in the house when I moved in. I wasn't a big fan of it but there was this huge bracket thing on the wall for it and removing it would have meant fixing the wall up. So instead I added this frame and I like it much more now

As you can tell I didn't have much beside a tea set that my grandmother got as a wedding gift for my hutch so i put in all my beer glasses/ formal glasses


This is the window yes I know exciting!! right now there is a plate that I got in Peru on the wall and as soon as my printer works I have a frame that I am going to put a bunch of my pictures from my south america trip in.

In other news. I have mostly just been getting settled in my new house. I don't have internet there so that limits my blogging a little bit

I am going winter camping this weekend so I am excited for that!!! Wel excited as long as the rain holds off til sunday.

So here i am

In CA where the weather is beautiful and I want to go out and go for a run!! But unfortunately I am afraid to. I am in a city that i dont know much about and normally that doesn't stop me from going for a run, but my hotel doesn't seem to be in an area where I should be running outside! Its a nice hotel but seems like not a good area to run in. I would go run where my training is normally forest service offices are out of town and somewhere where I could run. Oh but not here! I think it is in an even worse part of town than where my hotel is.

I went online and tried to look for someplace to go but no luck. That is part of the downfall of spending time in an area that you have never been in and dont know anyone who lives there that can tell you where to go.

oh well guess I will have to use the hotels treadmill or maybe go sit by the pool

I lied I swore that there was a pool here but there is not!! Oh well watcha gonna do!!

you may ask

where the pictures of my new house are. Well lets start with what I have been up to the last week or so

Mon-Wed: I had a class for work. It was called Interagency Incident Buisness management. yes it dealt with all the buisness stuff about fire. something I wasn't to excited about....ok it was well to put it nicely extremely boring.
Then at night I was over at my house trying to get the painting done.

Thursday: went and painted all day since it was the only night I had my dad to help me move furniture in. If we didn't do it thursday we couldn't do it for like 2 weeks. My mom was on spring break last week so she came over and helped me out ALOT!! I wouldn't have gotten everything done that I needed to if it wasn't for her.
Thursday night we moved a bunch of furniture in!!! Yippeee!!!

Friday: Finished painting, touch ups and trim. I painted the living room, dining room and one bedroom.

Saturday: i went up to my grandma's to see her. We found out a a couple of weeks ago that she has colon cancer. so this was the only chance I had to see my grandparents before the go down to live in by the mayo clinic so my grandma can start her treatment.

Saturday night: I actually slept in my own house!!! yay for me!!

Sunday: I had to drive down to minneapolis to fly to CA for a training for work. But before I went the airport I stopped by IKEA. I love that store!!1 I could have spent tons of money there but I tried to limit myself to only things that I really need not things that I want.

Today: I am currently in San Bernadino CA for work. No I am not fighting a fire I am here for a training. I will be in class til friday. I know how fun. At least I have a hotel room with internet!!

As for pictures I haven't gotten a chance to post any of them. I still have work to do but dont worry they will be up before I go back to work!!

well I think that is all. later gaters!!

Well it turns out I have a little time on my hands and I decided to post a couple of the pictures that I do have on my camera.







This is bedroom before...with the lovely green carpet, frilly lace curtians, and bland white walls.








This is the room after. It is not completely finished but it is better now. As you can tell I discovered hardwoods underneath the carpet. They are in pretty good shape. The only thing about them is that someone didn't care about them and dripped paint on the floor. But it really isn't too bad. also the carpet had some glue used right by the door. but I am gonna cover it up with a rug!! Eventually I will refinish the floors, but I think that they are in good enough shape right now.

The wood closest is a built in closest that was added to the room. There is one other smaller closest also. Both rooms in my house are about the same size....this one may be a tad smaller than the other but it has more closest space and two windows.
Ill post more photos when I get the window treatments up.