Sept. 10-11

Nicer weather for sure, bring on a long fall!!!!!

We now have working lightswitches in the hall and east wall. Ignore the "curtains" they are temporary.

I also took some time to work on making sure the siding will go up as planned. Many projects in the pipeline, Finish bathroom, more electrical stuff and build stairs. Supplies on hand just add time and skill.

Labor Day- cut short

Well Labor Day was supposed to be a great time, unfortunately it was not. Weather was good, even had Emily and the mutts up to visit. I got the bathroom lights installed, ceiling fan running and started on the East wall wiring. This includes the "crawl under the house" and let's just say that we will not do that too many times.

The husky is "bear" and he was visiting while his owner was off working the weekend. The dogs had the most fun I think. We also filled a 10 yard dumpster and that took most of Friday to haul the old stuff off the pile and throw away.

Next time we will have hall lights done and the east wall will be wired. That includes the heat and outlets. We should be able to finish the insulation and begin to add the wall coverings and such to that wall.

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.

July 10th damn it's hot

Kids had fun in hammock after using 2 gallons of water for squirt gun fight.
Here is picture of the original hole in the wall that had old window. It was covered up with OSB early on.
Finished product- 6 hours later. And it opens and closes too!!! Screen door will wait a bit, need to clean out the junk to work on that. The committee also decided to revise the rule "No AC at cabin" to "maybe some AC at cabin...."

Lot of silly tourists this week, more then July 4th it seemed.

July fourth weekend

Well July 4th was a blast weekend, even had local fireworks!!!! (iykwim)....lol

Most of the time spent in construction was laying 6 sheets of OSB on the floor joists for the loft. Hotter then the sauna back home for 3 days. We got 6 more to finish the loft flooring to go.

The picture is the "trial-run" ceiling fan to make sure the blades have plenty of clearance to the roof line. BAsically it hangs down 36 inches fromt he ceiling and can have a 52 to 66 inch total blade length. Should provide a good amount of air movement in the house. We will also have fans in the two bedrooms to help move air around, really trying to not install air conditioning.

Spent about 500 bucks on wiring and such, getting ready to run outside walls electrical so insulation can get started. Cabin needs insulation so we can work all winter and not freeze like years past.