Still waiting on paperwork to magically appear to get this property deal done. Its savagely frustrating to look at this, to me, enormous mountain of cash sitting in my bank account and knowing that I can’t do anything with it because it’s already spoken for. I mean, thats a lot of night vision and thermal vision sitting in that account right now.

But. I m using the time to try and wrap my head around things to have lined up in the spring. There’s no shortage of things to come up with…surveying, posting, access controls, a campsite, etc, etc. And maybe a door like this one when I finally get a place built.

In the meantime, I’m picking up tools and other items here and there to start staging for spring. In six months I’d like to have enough tools, materials, plans, and muscle on hand to start getting something in place. Probably one of the first things will be a small pier-supported deck to accommodate a tent for when Im up there doing stuff. Quite honestly, I’m looking forward to simply running away from work as fast as I can on a Friday, getting up there, and spending the weekend just exploring and taking notes.

But, the world is starting to catch alight, it seems, so I  need to get my head out of the clouds for the moment and focus on things other than the Beta Site. We got some snow today so winter is officially here and that means getting the usual domestic winter preps taken care of. I’d hate to spend all my time dreaming about spring at the Beta Site and wind up getting caught flatfooted when an ice storm passes through town, knocks everything out, and Im unprepared because..yknow…daydreaming.

But…hard not to spend a buncha time thinking “Im gonna need tyhis…gotta do this….cant forget about this…”

The listmaking/spreadsheeting is going to be impressive.