My second try

[Cargo]

Wow! Looks beautiful!
When can we come for a visit?
I will bring the beer and wine!

 

[abhaya]

very cool

 

[swift4me]

Cargo...

Interesting you posted as we live at the same latitude, but because of the Gulf Stream hitting Europe right about here, it is warmer than it would be otherwise. I was in the fly fishing business my whole life and have spent lots of time around Bend. Crane Prairie, Fall River, Pringle Falls, Odell, Hosmer, Gold, upper and lower Deschutes. I remember the broasted chicken at a place near Silver Lake. My brother is a lifer with the Forest Service and was in Chemult for 10 years. You live in a nice place.

Pete

 

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Beautiful pictures. Looks like a lovely place to be. How did you come to live there, if that's not too personal a question, as in a previous post you said you were from the states?

 

[chkn]

Looks like a dream place to do some metal detecting!

 

[swift4me]

My wife is from here, and I've been coming here to hunt/fish/visit since the mid 80's. I love it and we got lucky to find the farm for sale. Really at the "end of the road", and I get to wake up to silence every day. Nobody speaks English, so I call it learning French at gunpoint. Great neighbors though. Unless you learnm to speak Basque from birth, it is almost impossible to learn it. All of them are farming the land that has been in their families for hundreds of years. Mostly sheep and pigs though, too steep for growing anything but grass hay.

The metal detecting this has crossed my mind before and friends have mentioned it too. We are about 20 bird miles from Ronceveaux, where Charlemagne and the Basques fought the Moors. God knows what is laying around in the mud.

Pete

 

[Cargo]

Interesting you posted as we live at the same latitude, but because of the Gulf Stream hitting Europe right about here, it is warmer than it would be otherwise. I was in the fly fishing business my whole life and have spent lots of time around Bend. Crane Prairie, Fall River, Pringle Falls, Odell, Hosmer, Gold, upper and lower Deschutes. I remember the broasted chicken at a place near Silver Lake. My brother is a lifer with the Forest Service and was in Chemult for 10 years. You live in a nice place.

Pete,
We have 2 guest rooms, you are welcome to come fishing again anytime.

Cargo​

 

[swift4me]

Well after some snow last week, and plenty of rain before that, we've had some better weather and I got to work on the run.

I'll fill in all the small gaps between the studs and the stone wall with mortar and stones, then I think I'll paint the wood Basque red, a common color around here that replaced the bull's blood they used for a thousand years to paint their doors and shutters, and then put on the 1 cm square hardware cloth and the corrugated clear pvc roof. Then the chickens, and I get to retrieve my rooster, (Mike the survivor), from my neighbor. His scars from the battles with the beech marten have healed and he's turned into a beautiful bird.

Thanks for looking,

Pete

 

[lcw1995]

whats the inside of the coop look like?

 

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Thanks for showing us your progress. That's nifty how you've fit the framing to the slope of the existing stone.