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This is Oregon...

NeoBlackdogNeoBlackdog Member Posts: 17,288 ✭✭✭✭
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in my rear view mirror!

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Started making the move to Montana yesterday. This is going across the bridge at Umatilla into Washington, crossing the Columbia River.

9 hours behind the wheel towing a utility trailer, I don't know how you long haul truckers do it! I only stopped for fuel (3 times) and to let the dogs out to do their business.

Today I'll get the trailer and pickup unloaded and then head to town and start looking for a competent outfit to do some millwork and doors. My cabinet guy back in Oregon is doing new doors for the kitchen cabinets for me but logistically it makes more sense to get someone local to do all the trim.

I need to look into some alternative heat sources also. Right now the house has two propane fireplaces (one upstairs, one down) that don't heat the house very well/evenly. There's also a big wood cook stove (a pretty modern one) between the kitchen and dining room. A great back-up heat source! I'd like to do a boiler fired hydronic system but that'll entail tearing out all the sheetrock ceilings in the basement, running the pipe, insulating, and then running pipe for 3 radiators in the basement. I had one fella bid $12,000 for a system and that was with me running all the pipe! Yikes!

When I pulled up I was greeted by 6 whitetail does down in the pasture and they later moved up pretty close to the house and a coyote was singing just before I hit the hay last night. It was dead quiet and black as the inside of a cow last night. Got the best nights sleep I've had in years!!

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