RETIREMENT JOB- Project Manager- Leisure: Week 4- Lost Track of the Day

We arrived back at the Mountain House, opened the doors and smelled smoke-like a burning forest fire. After wandering around outside and determining that it didn't seem to be nearby, we closed up the doors and retired to bed. Upon awakening in the morning, I opened the doors, then quickly closed them again, as it was still smoky outside. There was a forest fire still burning, but it was quite far away to be smelling the smoke. When husband woke up and looked out the window, he SAW smoke coming up from just over the deck at our house. He hurried down stairs and discovered that there was a smoldering area where a tree trunk had been removed several years ago, and the hole filled up with the ground up tree stump. It had also been treated for termites. So it appeared that this smoldering fire which was like a peat fire, had started by spontaneous combustion. He pulled out the garden hose and quickly extinguished the fire.

We were very lucky it was a still night and no wind was blowing, or we may have been rebuilding the house as well as the garage. Husband is digging up the remnants and filling it with dirt (the brown area back by the post).
The forms are almost completed, with the inspector coming on Tuesday and more concrete pouring on Wednesday, the forms removed on Thursday, then quiet for at least a week.

Man cave to the left, lower garage to the right and upper garage at the back of the picture. The upper garage will have concrete poured over a suspended wood floor.

The plywood forms are used so there is a smoother wall where the wall is visible on the final garage.

Meanwhile, providing the tree trimmer "makes it here", the trees (in the background) will be trimmed of dead branches and shaped as many trees which interferred with their growth are now gone.
I couldn't pass up this picture of my Bentley boy stretched out on the blanket. The sable brown cat sleeps on the dark blanket and the platinum cats sleeps on the white blanket, presumably for camoufalge. He is such a relaxed cat.