Winter visitors

Wednesday, April 8th, 2009

I just got back from Monkey Valley, where I had a chance to find out how the place fared for the winter. I found evidence of some horses (or so I thought) in the yard, and the corpse of a tiny shrew in the power room. Other than that, no ...

Ah, the luxury of hot running water!

Sunday, November 30th, 2008

It took two years from the time I bought Monkey Valley until there was hot running water to fill the beautiful claw foot bathtub in the upstairs bathroom. The bathtub was the first purchase I made after getting Monkey Valley. It weighs hundreds of pounds! Hugh and I brought it ...

November 25 – Frosty homecoming

Thursday, November 27th, 2008

Each time I return to Monkey Valley it is an adventure. There's no telling what I will find. This time I arrived about 7:15 pm, well after dark. The outside temperature was -4 degrees, and the inside temperature was 0 degrees! In the power room it was a bit warmer—4 ...

Coming home to Monkey Valley – September

Sunday, October 12th, 2008

On Wednesday, September 10, I came back to Monkey Valley. This might not seem remarkable to you, but it was a very exciting day for me. You see, in November 2006 I went to Vancouver expecting to return to Monkey Valley in a few days. But there was a big snow ...