Chapter 32

The party went on for a while, every family taking home several pounds of cheese, and the rest going back to the general store, which was just open Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays in the afternoon, for two or three hours. Anthony gave the number of the person who ran it, because they’d open back up in an emergency.

I got a ride back to my new place, just dropped off, and left to my own devices. It took about twenty minutes to cut out a spot for the RV, and another twenty to toss the rocks down the hill. I cut out a spot in the stone of the western side of the valley. It would put the door close to the rock, but most of the good windows, and the slide outs facing out over the valley. Once I had the pad perfectly not level, so rain water wouldn’t collect, I summoned the RV.

I pulled down the metal stairs, and opened the door to find everything there, just nothing where it belonged. I quickly cleaned up the kitchen and living room, then I got the jacks to level, and summoned the wheel blocks that hadn’t come with the place. I looked around, and decided I wanted a porch, and better steps.

Using my cutting skill, I decided to cut blocks out of the stone face at the southern end of the valley. I added a pattern on the bottom and top of each block, quarter inch ridges, which would let the stones lock together securely. It took doubling my strength many many times, and using my super grip ability to carry the stones, a foot tall, and a foot wide, but five feet long.

I set the bottom three with a foot between them, and then set the next three at 90 degrees to the first layer. Then I placed a layer of stones across the top. It was a nice solid five by five platform. The steps were similarly created, three 3 foot long stones, with three stones on top for the second step, and one five by three foot stone for the first step. That really took ramping up the strength.

Then I duplicated the steps on the other side, so I could get off the porch on the side toward the ocean. The steps still had five feet between them and the freshly cut wall so I could walk around them, as well as extend out the awning if I wanted.

I decided that the jacks would still let the trailer bounce too much on the springs when I walked around inside, so I carved stones to place under the trailer, six in all to fully level it slightly higher. I used a car jack to lift the trailer, and then sliced the stones shorter to get it all leveled. That done, and the 5th wheel feeling rock solid inside, it was getting close to dinner time, so I went down the steps and caught a lobster.

I didn’t have any propane, so I had to kill it, and leave it in the sink of the RV, while I walked back to the house. At the house, I found it empty of people, but someone had left a gift basket of local fruits and a little note welcoming me to the island.

I was glad to see that the bananas were almost green, as I didn’t like them soft or too sweet. I ate one while Colin 2 got washed up for dinner.

Owen came in, nodded, and headed to his room. I ate a nice dinner by myself, and then considered the time. It was only 6 pm here, which was also 6 pm in San Diego, and Portland.

I summoned my phone, sent a text message, and returned it. I needed to get Pete to buy a wireless charger for it, so it would be charged while it was waiting for me to summon it. I decided just to order one on Amazon and ship it to his house instead. I plugged in my phone and set it to charge, while I waited for a response. I summoned my laptop and started to surf the web, looking up various things on the internet about rainwater systems, off grid RV stays, and garden beds.