Pendaries House Kitchen

Our kitchen is starting to form.  We hope to move into our new house in late January, 2021.

 

Our Pendaries Village House

We hope to move from the Pendaries RV park into our Pendaries Village house in January 2021.  We've experienced lots of surprises during the building process; I would not recommend to anyone.

We Grow Them Big in Rociada

Found these on the critter cam yesterday.  So even after a week of below freezing temps and snow, our big bear is still out and about.

Pizza Warmer

 

Happy Bear

 A couple of pics from this week from our Pendaries critter cam.

Pics from our bear trail

 Here are a few of the other beauties who frequent our Pendaries mine hiking trail.

Pendaries House

Here's our house that we are building in Pendaries, a mountain community and golf resort, in Rociada, NM.  Its made with Fox Blocks; styrofoam filled with concrete.  The exterior and roof will be the darkest brown.

Bear

This is from a camera we setup yesterday on our daily hiking trail; captured about an hour after we left the trail.  Yikes!  I feel less threatened by bears than rattlesnakes.

Cement Pour with Crane

Here's our house's mid-level cement pour.  We could see the crane poking out of the woods from across the street on the turquoise mine trail above the Pendaries RV Park.

Carl Looking for Chipmunks; Jim on the Porch

Carl, Yoga Nidra Master; Carl on TV

Progress Continues

Getting ready for the next pour up to the main floor of the house!

Ghost Bear

Here's a shot from our security cameras at about 7 pm last night; 75' from our motorhome in Pendaries RV Park.  This remarkable bear has been visiting regularly both in the RV park and across the street in Pendaries Village.

One Less Live Mouse

Carl went three houses away and found an apparent mouse nest.  He captured a youngster and brought it all the way home to under the porch where he played with his prize until its demise; and then some.

Weather in Pendaries is Great

Here's Jim growing hair as per the pandemic; followed by Carl judging me.

8 Month Clock Started

First concrete pour today! Footings being poured so the house will be completed on or before January 8 2021. 

Jim's Happiest Day of the Year

Yesterday afternoon New Mexico approved opening golf courses so Pendaries Golf opens this morning at 8 am MT.  The course will be limited today to just the front 9 holes as approval to open came as a surprise with just a few hours notice to ready the course.  Here's Jim heading out with his new driver; today he gets to tryout his new putter too.  Life is good.

Carl's 9th Birthday

Here's yesterday's birthday Carl waiting patiently to go outside, squinting in the sun and laying in the middle of the street showing visitor cat who is boss.  Carl playfully chased visitor cat a bit never attacking nor making actual contact.  Visitor cat might be the same white-chested visitor cat from last year and relative of other park cats who seem pretty tame and healthy.

Carl continues to be healthy, happy and the boss of us.  We got Carl a floppy fish for his birthday.  Carl spends a couple/few hours a day outside so loving our hikes in the Pendaries woods.

Excavation in Pendaries Village, Rociada, NM

Excavation started this week for our Pendaries home, or Garage Mahal (16' tall garage underneath a one-bedroom with office and yoga loft fox block bunker built halfway underground).

Deer

Morning Visitors

Staying Home

Here's a view from our motorhome watching snow fall earlier this week.  Below Carl waits patiently for the weather to break so we can go outside.

Moving to Pendaries

Here's Jim back from a 2,000+ mile drive from NM to SoCal and back to Pendaries with our furniture. Jim accomplished this in 96 hours which included a visit with Sandy Reid at Rigging Innovations in Eloy, AZ, coffee with our good friends Bob and Rose Press in Sage, CA, and pickups at Hart, Oak Mountain and Monte De Oro wineries in Temecula, CA. While on the road, Jim had to spend one night curled up in the cab of the U-Haul truck as all hotel rooms were booked. Jim proceeded to then sleep a solid 12 hours in our motorhome.

Leaving SoCal

This was the last sunset we will ever see from our house in SoCal.  Our house is under contract.  This morning we leave in our motorhome and head to Pendaries in Rociada, NM.

Carl In View

Carl with Palomar Mountain in the background from our porch in Sage, CA.

Another Great Afternoon

Here at the Presses we are gathering to head out what's probably our last joint winery outing before Jim and Joellen leave Sage, CA for Pendaries in NM.

And here's Bob and Bob, Kodi and Halley.

And here at Monte De Oro Winery

Jim's Birthday

Here we are heading out to celebrate Jim's birthday from our house in Temecula, CA.

And here we are at Hart Winery

As the celebration goes on, here's Jim at Monte De Oro