Jan. 29th

Well winter blues hit hard and no matter what the weather we headed up to work on the cabin. Spent about 4 hours there and was able to get the thermometer to register 42 degrees it was still kinda cool in the place.

We have been trying to straighten the walls as there is a slight pushout at the top of the southern wall. Anyways we got a turnbuckle and cable and installed it to try and pull the wall back inwards. Only need a half inch.

Well it creaked a bit then stopped as the turnbuckle can only tighten up so much. SO thinking there must be a better way we went and bought a come-along and tried that. Well,,,,,,,, it did move some but the wall also started to break. In the end we pulled the new rim joist out of the 2x4 stud and then broke the stud. Oh well, we left it in place as it will keep the pressure on to not want to spread and more till we tie in the newloft pieces.

There was about 2 feet of snow outt back and even the 4x4 ford had to rev into the driveway!!! Not a bad day, refilled the squirrel feeders, they were a running to go eat once I did that.

I'll add a pic or two asap.

Happy New Year

Well a quick break in the weather and temps got into the 40's. We headed up and worked on the southern wall, getting the 2x6 rim installed and the joist hangers put in place for the next 8 floor joists.

No pictures this trip.

Weather changed by time we left, cold air blast from the north and we went home.

We should have more time to work on the place, Emily's house is almost done which took up most of the free time we had for projects.