It is getting too cold for the cows and calves to be up here, so they were wrangled up this week and moved down the hill to pastures next to the Snake River.

I still find it a thrill to see the cowboys (and girls) work the cattle with the dogs. It's really amazing!

It all looks so idyllic, but it was a really cold and windy day that they did this, and I didn't envy them at all .. 

I just took pictures from behind the window of the nice and warm and cozy RV! Giddy-up!

Than on Monday we had one really warm and nice fall day again, when the temperature reached a balmy 66F!

It so happened to be our 'down-the-hill' day so we enjoyed this beautiful day playing a nice round of golf. Who knows, it might be the last day we can, if the weather turns for real!

It was very windy though! I wasn't exaggerating here (too much), it really was that hard to get the flag back in!

By the way, we had a little hick-up with the truck this week, at least, with one of the tires. We found it flat one morning, so James changed it out and we brought it down the hill with us.

It turned out to be a faulty valve-stem. We were pleasantly surprised to learn that Les Schwab, the tire shop, replaced it for free and even installed it back on the truck! Apparently it's their policy, free flat repairs!

My walks are rather quiet now the cows have gone. There's still a lot of deer around, but I hardly come across anything else at the moment. A few tiny mushrooms (usually growing merrily on pats of cow dung!)

         

I discovered an old apple tree down at Brust creek, that carries small apples. 
The best ones are on top though, I'll have to try and shake them down one of these days, before the frost will get to them.

They're rather hard and sour but they might be good for pie. 

I did made an apple pie by the way, but not with these apples.

And guess what? It's baaaaaack .. the white stuff, I mean!

Temperatures rapidly went south once again, then it decided to rain and somewhere during the night that changed to snow!

We woke up to 27F (!!) and all this ...

That's a temperature-drop of 39 degrees in 2 days!

And off-course this was the day Ronnie and Anita and Pat and Sam had chosen to bring us the cabinets for the kitchen and bathrooms!

Because of a broken waterline in Wet Gulch that they had to take care of, they arrived a day late but they did make it up the hill! Just very slowly and carefully ..

Over the course of last week James and Joe had already prepared the kitchen area.

The one stud in the middle was removed and replaced by two ..

So the kitchen cabinets can sit in between and don't have a pole sticking out of them.

I love the green color! And the beadboard!

They'll be here for a couple more days, to install everything and to (most importantly) cut the marble slabs that will make up the counter tops.

The slabs are sitting in the barn and are very, very heavy so James is very, very happy that he has lots of 'bodies' to help him cut and move them!

We also finished the bedrooms, the common room and the bathroom in the basement and moved some of the furniture in ..

I think it came out very nice!

 

The tile is in and grouted  and the toilet and shower are functional ..

                                     Just in time for company!

Progress is also made in the foyer. 
The drywall is all in and as of yesterday muddied and structured, and the floor (that we found some spare boxes of in the shop) has been extended into the new hallway.

               

 Still a lot of (mainly detailed) work to be done, but it's starting to look very nice if I say so!

Now hopefully the snow will melt in the coming week and we won't get any more, because it looks like we are going to stay here until the 21st to finish up, before we leave.