Unseasonably warm weather this past week has made it pretty hard to be too bothered by the frequent rain showers and their omnipresent offspring: mud. We've had highs in the upper 60s and “lows” not even 10 degrees less. Last night a cold front started to move in, but compared to January in Colorado, there's no reason to complain. Whenever the mud overly-overwhelms me, we take advantage of our membership to the Creative Discovery Museum in downtown Chattanooga. Definitely our favorite place to spend a rainy day. Lance has started helping our neighbor on the next road south of ours with his log furniture building business, so he and Gideon are off with Tom tree-hunting. Tom is our friend who runs the Community First Marion County charity and exchange barn, and as I mentioned before, has kindly been fulfilling the role of fairy godfather to us for the last few months. He and his motley crew have gathered and bequeathed unto us all sorts of necessities and luxuries, including the hens and rooster, some IBC totes for water storage, floor mats, camo clothing and hunting accessories galore, curtains, brooms, replacement jeans as ours get holey, a cast iron skillet, and our little stainless steel bar sink. Oh, and plenty of Tom's signature dry BBQ rub, known fondly as Shake-Shake. We usually go down there a time or two a week to sort and organize clothing at the barn. The furniture Tom makes is ruggedly gorgeous and Lance is excited to learn from him. Likely he'll be there most days this week.
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