Fall Hiking on Mt. Baker, Washington

I like nothing more than Fall hikes in the mountains, and after a summer spent in the city teaching and working on the house every weekend, we finally got up to Mt. Baker for an 8 mile hike around the flanks of the mountain. Lots of great scenery, and a few "brisk" crossings of streams that were flowing fast with glacial meltwater. A high mountain setting at its best.

This Old/New House

Old house

New house

The fruits of this summer's labors have finally paid off. Ten weeks of scraping, sanding, patching, priming, and painting and our sad green lil' bit o' heaven is now a handsome dark gray.

Everyone should paint their house themselves, by hand, one time so that they can truly apprecieate how much work it is and why it costs so much to have someone else do it. I'll consider myself one and done.