Top and Top

Tuesday we drove up the mountain to see if we could get to our cabin.  Not the true Top and Top of course as all the Lowe Kids know.  The TRUE Top and Top is of course and could only be the Big Horns but Cedar Mountain passes for top n top (lower caps at least) for us these days.  We had a beautiful drive, the roads were mostly clear and it was a great day.  There was less snow than I expected. Last year on Chrismas Eve day when Mark and Jamie went up with me we had at least another foot. Never the less we are greatful for what we do have.                                   

                                     

           We knew that we had

 arived when we spotted the trusty old hummingbirds sticking up through the snow.  Safe to say that the birds that we so enjoy all summer have departed for warmer habitats.  Here is our old cabin and garage

 peering out from the trees and the snow.

     We could tell that a lot of thawing was going on.  The road in was plowed and was beginning to get muddy in some spots.  Last year when we

 went in the road was all snow and ice.  

     Just like last year though it was neigh on to impossible to hike up to the cabin.  It was just too hard to walk through, you would just fall through the snow hip deep.  

                                   

     

   

                 

                                   

                                                                                                           

                                                                                                              However I came prepared and strapped on my snoweshoes.  A Christmas/Birthday present from me to me.                                                                                                                                                                       

                                   

                                 

     And up the hill I marched carrying a bed frame.                                                                 

        Well I had a bedframe for the downstairs bedroom.  Trust me, and it was heavy what with the uphill thing, the altitude, the inexperienced snowshoer, and the out of shape since I've not been working very hard but eating hearty since Thanksgiving time.  Mostly the latter I think.

  When I got up the hill to the cabin the view was worth the climb.

           

           

             

                   

                             

      

Where the snow had slid from the steep metal roof it is really piled deep.

                                         

              

                

                                                                                             Here is a view of the old cabin from North of the new cabin.

     As you can see there has been a lot of melting.  I don't think too much snow slid from the old cabin roof, it is composition roofing and not slick like the new cabin.

We had a great day and I know we need to get some snowshoes for Carla.  I would have enjoyed walking around more once I put the bedframe inside the cabin.

     We got some great picture on the way down the mountaihn

   

 

Here is Duck Creek.

                                                     

                                

                 

                             

           

           

                       

                        

                                   

       Duck Creek Pond.

                                                                 

                       

 With some Ducks which flew to the other side, but alsa you can't see them.  Too bad, it sort of explains the name.

  

                                                                                      

      You can see some of the ten or so turkeys that we saw coming down the mountain.  We saw five Tom turkeys going up but did not think to take a picture. 

Anyway we had a great day.  I was wondering if we could get the rest of the kitchen cabinet doors and drawers that I have built in the past few weeks along with the upstairs vanity that I just finished, along with the top and toilet that clutter my workshop, but no way am I going to pack that stuff up the hill on snowshoes.  For that matter I don't want to pack them up the hill at all.  They will have to wait until we can drive up to the cabin in the spring.    OK enough for today.