Framing

My trailer is situated so I can sit right here at the dinette and look out the front windows at my new house taking shape.  I've  been trying to stay in here and out of the way of the workmen as much as possible, but I have to go out now and then to take pictures.

They brought me Matt's generator today so I could charge my trailer batteries, and while I was at it, I treated myself to a little air conditioning. Still pretty warm here in Campo in the second week of October, but we did get a light sprinkle of rain this morning.

I'm pretty worried about Molly out here, because I know there are coyotes, and today one of the workmen had laid his nail pouch on the ground and found a baby rattler in it! (shudder...)  Molly has been free to run on two acres back in Alpine and snoop under things looking for lizards.  I'm sure she doesn't understand why I keep her on a leash most of the time here, but this is wilder country.  I only have one neighbor, and all the land on three sides of me is undeveloped with lots of trees and brush.

This evening before dark she made a break for it, pushing the screen door open with her nose and bolting.  By the time I got my hat (and my coyote gun) she was out of sight, finally coming back from way across the property after I called her several times.

It's a dilemma: do I let her run free and enjoy life, even if it means a premature and rather unpleasant death, or keep her on a rope the rest of her life until she dies of old age?  Poor thing... She doesn't bark or complain, but she really wants to run.  I suppose I will end up building some kind of a fenced yard, but I've read that coyotes can jump a 7' fence, so unless I want this place to look like a gulag, any fence I build will just be to keep her close to the house.  It won't keep the bad guys out.