Community project day + a fireplace & flu

My wife and I showed up to the Yodelin community project day where two events took place. They shut off the water to our division so they could replace the shutoff valves at a couple junction boxes including ours.

Since I can't legally hook up to the system yet, my only contribution here was spectating / picture taking.

Then we ventured over to division 1 to help haul materials from the water tanks from the old system that was decommissioned over a decade ago.  It's sitting on land that will hopefully be purchased and preserved for the Pacific Crest Trail -- The PCT passes by only about 100 yards from my property! And preserving the land will protect the PCT (and our community) from the adverse affects of logging, which would place many of the homes in our community in danger of avalanches and erosion.

We helped haul wood, pipes, and plastic down the hill. (Katie was amazing.) The water tanks themselves will need professional attention -- probably with a cutting torch and some heavy equipment.

Here are a few beauties I found along the roadside.

Finally, on our way down the pass, we stopped in Monroe and ordered our fireplace and chimney/flu for the cabin.  I want to be sure that the chimeny flu gets installed the *same* *day* as the metal roof -- mutch easier to do the flashing and installation when we have everyone there on site.

And the lucky winner is....

This little beauty set us back about 4 grand, plus we're doing Class A external chimney pipe with install. That nearly doubles the price. Now we're poor.   

But who wants a cabin without a fireplace?!