[21:18] <valorie> and back
[21:18] <valorie> our old roof sprung a leak in the first heavy rain of the season
[21:18] <valorie> :(
[21:19] <valorie> my side of the bed
[21:19] <valorie> then this morning, a second leak
[21:19] <valorie> :(
[21:19] <valorie> gonna have to go up again with a tarp, ropes, etc.
[21:20] <valorie> to hold us until we can get a new roof spring - summer
[21:21] <clivejo> eakk
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[21:21] <clivejo> thats a long time for a tarp to hold up
[21:21] <valorie> what's the alternative
[21:22] <valorie> pretty late to try to do a roof now that the rains have begun
[21:22] <valorie> and we only got clearance about a month ago to do a metal roof
[21:22] <valorie> since then, it was under level 3 evac orders because of the fire
[21:22] <clivejo> it is insured?
[21:23] <valorie> well, we insure the forest service against us starting a fire or so
[21:23] <valorie> but you can't really get insurance
[21:23] <clivejo> its not a home?
[21:24] <valorie> we own the building itself, but it's on leased land
[21:24] <valorie> or precisely: special permit land
[21:25] <clivejo> oh right
[21:25] <valorie> I can't even imagine the replacement cost
[21:25] <clivejo> just curious how it works there
[21:25] <valorie> the four original guys did a timber buy in the 1950s
[21:25] <valorie> had loggers cut and limb the trees and truck them down
[21:26] <valorie> we peeled and put insecticide on them while they were seasoning
[21:26] <valorie> those sort of logs are now worth thousands since the japanese want them
[21:26] <valorie> each
[21:28] <valorie> I mean, a fire probably wouldn't burn the logs themselves unless it was a maelstrom of wildfire
[21:28] <valorie> just the roof and some contents
[21:28] <valorie> although they have been drying for 60 years......
[21:40] <clivejo> seems to be a storm blowing in here
[21:41] <valorie> Bob had to get off the mountain early, this afternoon, because there was a snowstorm
[21:41] <valorie> he said it was basically a blizzard, so they knocked off at 2
[21:41] <valorie> got down to the cabin just as Thomas and we were about finished cleaning and packing
[21:47] <valorie> here it is pretty calm -- we've only had maybe a tenth of an inch of rain this weekend
[21:47] <valorie> probably 5x that much at the cabin, which is good for the fire situation