August 27-28th Summer is fading fast

Three day "vacation" and while still warm, weather was really nice in the morning and evening. The main project was getting the flooring installed in the great room. We had 3 cases and then ended up buying three more to get the floor mostly covered, still need to work on the area around the stove and then we continue down the hall to the front door. That will take 6 feet x 20 feet of tile to complete.

Kids took this picture instead of the electrical work we worked on Sunday. Switches for hall lights, east wall and outdoors was run. We have switches to add in next time. It is possible to have hall lights, bathroom and east wall electrical outlets done on next trip. A small trip under the house will be required. Guess who gets to go?

August 13-14th- rain and no heat

We tried making raspberry pastry, kinda worked. Need better way to cook then the sandwich maker we got, the coating is peeled off and needs to go away. Cast iron only!!



Hank was all weepy on Saturday, must have been the rain. He mentioned that Hunter missed his hotdog and scraps at breakfast adn I did not share them with him.




Ben is testing out the new walls for the bathroom. Not quite private yet. We did get most of the electric installed and are ready to pop in the shower/bath tub unit. Insulation is ready for ceiling and then drywall for that.

We need sink and cabinet still. Running water part is whole nother story as someone will need to crawl under the house to hook it up.



Maria is testing the shower unit. We bought a solar shower for rinsing off after swimming.
With all the rain there was not a lot of solar to warm up the water!!!

August 6th-7th Swelter-a-thon

Hank checks out the wall and notices it was not quite square. We readjusted and he was happy to sign off on the new wall. This is the end of the bathroom and other side is maintenance room.


This is the first sheet of drywall hung in the bathroom. We insulated the wall and then hung the sheet. The tub will be installed in front of this wall .


Wow, warm summer. 92 on Saturday. I think I sweated a gallon of water each day.
Was a bit tense, but worked through it.
Our "freebie" broadband came to an end, we had to upgrade immediately Friday to a wireless cell plan. No Verizon based equipment available took a chance on the Virgin mobile ( Sprint). Once we figured out how to make it work, we got decent speeds. 500k on Saturday
, over a meg on Sunday.

Ceiling fan was on sale and we bought the unit. By time I get it installed it will be fall probably.

We defintely will add AC to the cabin. Way too hot this year.