Bearbnb Hosts are Bears of all Trades!

Hullo! We have blocked a night in our Bearbnb calendar in order to get some maintenance done! There is always "something" that needs replacing or touching up or fixing or... something!

Today, we are working on the bathroom. We have taken the shower curtain down.

Let's go take a look and see how my underling is doing...

Excellent... looks like the painting is done...

And we're in the middle of working on the bathroom fan.

Yes, even bathroom fans need replacing. I did a tonne of research on the fan and found a place that sells the blower assembly as a replacement part.

This is the old one...

And this is the new one!

And there's the hole in the ceiling there the blower assembly gets put in...

Let's take a look down the exhaust vent itself!

First we need a headlamp... ahhh... bright light!

See the flapper bit there... just need to... oof... get up there without getting dirty...

There we go! Ewwww... someone obviously cleaned the fan at some point but a lot of crud got blown into the exhaust ducting. We cleaned that out...

And all of this makes a big mess! 

Which is why it's good to have an underling to clean up after themselves!

And there's the new one popped in! It's really quite easy... if you know what you're doing. Thank goodness for YouTube videos!

We'll just plug it in and... it works!

Excellent... let's check up on the other project which was touching up trim paint around the place...

The door frames in particular are always getting dinged and banged up... but the underling has done a good job of touching up those bits.

Good help is hard to find you know... but as an experienced stuffie... I know how to handle these humans!

The last project was installing some holders for the shower rod. It's a tension rod, you can tighten it by rotating the two pieces but... it keeps getting moved and stripping the paint off the wall in those spots. Sooo... paint the wall above the shower and... holders so that we can make it nice and tight and not worry it's going to damage the wall again!

Now that we've done all these little projects... we can get back to our regularly scheduled cleaning!

A Rainy Campfire and a Burial

One of our first stops while visiting Gramma is to go to the campfire lake... but as we got closer, it started to rain but... you know what... rain never stopped this little bear!

It's so pretty here.

Gramma didn't come as she was afraid the water would be too high.

But it's perfect!

Lots of beach... we are going to be just fine.

First, we gathered some dry twigs from dead hemlock trees and some old man's beard lichen (the hanging stuff). 

We got that going with some matches...

And some dry sticks from under logs and stuff and... we have us a campfire!

We did have to keep gathering wood though...

But we found lots!

Plus... there's a source of wood right behind me!

This is a cottonwood tree and the bark is beary thick.

As the tree grows, pieces of bark come loose and you can just lift them off.

So we got some good sized chunks of cottonwood bark, most of which was dry because of the way the tree was leaning.

See!

That is a beary good campfire. It's nicer out here than at home. Mostly because there is no cell reception out here so "someone" can't get distracted by their phone!

It's soooo pretty.

And soon enough, it was time to leave. At least there's no campfire bans!

We stopped at the graveyard to visit Grampa's grave...

And now we have another burial to do...

We are going to the place where we have buried some cremains from Rascal, Spooky and Daisy (Rose's dog).

We have a spot next to this gnarly birch tree... just off the trail... 

Ah, here it is. Just scuffed away the leaves and there's the rock.

We have a little bag of Rascal still (not sure why) and a little bag of Minnie...

We dug a little hole and poured them in. Best little cats ever.

Then we put the heart-shaped rock back...

Covered it with leaves...

And left a sprig of False Solomon's Seal... RIP little cats.

Then... since we're out and about anyhow... we went to check on a few stinging nettle patches.

But it's too late in the season and they are already going to flower. Oh well!