Just for Fun the day we moved to Idaho Pictures (Clayton: for sale, houses)

[shades_of_idaho]

I was going through some pictures and thought it might be fun to share pictures of our camp when we landed in Idaho on our property in Clayton on July 12 1986. Nothing but a well pipe sticking out of the ground. We were going to build our own house. We made camp and then Hubby had to go back to California with the neighbor that brought the mules in a second truck and trailer back home and bring the last load of our stuff. Almost everything we owned was in that stock truck. The string lines you might see bits of in the pictures were keeping the mules from trying to get into the camper and away from my birds. and stuff. Sort of worked. I stayed with the animals. ALL by myself. Hehehe

Then later you can see camp expanding when our friend came back with Joe and brought his camp trailer to live in. Then the three of us set out to build our little log home. Was a real adventure. Took us three days shy of three months to be able to move into the house. Unfinished of course but by then it was 17 degrees outisde and the camper needed to get back to California or burst it's pipes.

Pyle Meadows - House we built in Clayton

OK So I know it looks so hokey. It is what it is.

Maybe some of you would like to add your first days in Idaho here for those coming behind us.

Chris

[pimit2]

Shades of Idaho said:

OK So I know it looks so hokey. It is what it is.

Hokey? Naw, it looks beautiful. It's your kind of pioneering spirit that helps make Idaho what it is: Free spirited and adventurous. I admire what you accomplished. Most folks could not have done what you did. Thanks for sharing the pictures, Shades of Idaho. They are great!


pimit2 (Bob)

[Fisherman 100]

That is not hokey. That is guts, determination and what America is supposed to really be about. You did that by yourselves without government assistance. The early pioneers would have been proud of you.

[shades_of_idaho]

Well we did have the small town in a bit of an uproar since we paid cash as we went. Neither of us working. All kinds of rumors went flying around as to where the money came from. But we had sold our paid for California house and just used that money to pay for this one.

It was a good time. A hard time. A time when it was more exciting to go to town to the restaurant and use a real bathroom running water and all then to eat their food. Washing my hair in the ice cold water from the well was agony and the first real and hot shower in the house was heaven. It was sad to leave that house. But we are really happy where we are now 7 houses later.

Keep chipping away at it all of you that want to come to Idaho. You can make it happen. AND there still is a cute little house right next to us for sale. Sad to see it sit empty for so long.

Chris