Guess what .. we moved!
Since James finished the barn and did some work on and reorganizing at the shop/barn right next to us, it was time to move on to our summer-job.
For that we had to scale a 4880' mountainside by driving a harrowing, narrow, gravel road with about 100 hair-pin curves! 
I wasn't too sure about it, and initially we were going to leave the RV here and stay at the guest house of the farm we're going to be at, but everybody else thought it was no problem to bring the RV up so .. up we went!

  

I was driving ahead in Sam's truck, to let anybody coming down know that a big RV was coming up behind me that needed the whole road .. fortunately we only encountered one, and that was on a not so difficult flat stretch ..

Well, we made it safe and sound, although it took us an hour to drive the 30 miles up, and we were completely covered in dust on arrival!

Our new spot is at a gravel parking lot, right next to the garage and front porch of the house, and in front of the barn behind it.
We had just enough room to set up our own sitting area, but we are right next to the beautiful, and fully covered, front porch which I think we're going to use a lot!

The girls that are the caretakers of the property, Miriam and Marianne, who live in the house in the summer, have moved out for the duration of the renovation, so we have the whole place to ourselves to use when/however we like. Sweet!

 



The view  from my computer desk to the other side is of some meadows, pine trees, cows and a lonesome horse by the name of Sugar ..

The gravel road we came up on goes by the house and eventually down the mountain on the other side.
It's a little steeper and narrower that way, but without the RV we can take it down for grocery shopping in Grangeville.

See the mailbox? USPS delivers here, unbelievable! (and of course FedEx and UPS, but they go everywhere!)
We also have WiFi and telephone! I guess there's something to be said to be on top of a hill.

So far, we've encountered a few deer and James saw an honest-to-god bear when we drove op, but no pictures ..
I do have some of the many birds that have build their nest around the porch, like this Red Robin:

And this little House Wren, who's nesting in an old rusty farm contraption that is sitting in the flower border. 
I'll try to get a better shot of that later, it's amazing how narrow the opening to that nest is!

He's singing the whole day long!

I'll end with a few pictures of the final work on the barn and shop at Wet Gulch. 
That shop especially was unrecognizable after cleaning it up.

A new door was installed:

   

And, like I said, the inside was reorganized and got new shelves and pegs to hang all tools neatly on the walls, grouped together according to their usage.

What a difference a 'little' organizing makes!

 

And this is the finished barn. The soil around it was graded and the tractors were moved in:

It's a beautiful thing!