August 31st workcrew

This is the new improved open back area. No more walls and parts of walls any more. The wall to the right is ready to come down once we cut it free.






Yeah this is the "bathroom" area and the wall was full of wood shavings/sawdust as insulation. Also, Josh broke another sledge hammer.

Camp Bear-Buck 2009

Welcome to Camp Bear-Buck!!!!! It's the 2009 camping trip and we are , yes we are, live-blogging from the camp!!!!! We got no "toilet", but we got broadband.

Arrived Friday late, tired , stressed out... We popped a screen over the old window and got it open to catch the lake breeze. Kinda muggy but by 11 it was a cool breeze so much I cut the opening by half.

We popped out our remote surfing tools and lo and behold, thar be broadband out there and it's wide open.

In the pix, there is a small blue light on the wall, that is our repeater-booster that has a connection. Kids now know the phrase, " Two blue good, red-blue bad". Apparently , our friends are connected to Charter cable and we got zippy conections. I know who has the link, so I will go buy something from them.

On Saturday, we had the "pot-o-coffee" then fired up our camp stove for breakfast.

Menu:

Pancakes with blueberries ( not "sauce" like some resturants fake)

Farm Milk

Farm Eggs

Juice

More info later, it's raining hard right now, so we are sitting tight.

Flannel in July??? Why yes, yes it was cold

I'm sitting on the porch , it's raining ( more like a mist) and about 50 degrees. Flannel all around, didn't even break a sweat working...
And yes, I looked a little pissed, more like stressed out.

What else do you do on a rain day? That's the venerable Lay-z-boy chair now doing cabin duty.

Here is a depiction of the rear wall plans spray painted to help show where it goes from the plans. The white object is Maria's emergency potty, no more messes.....

Once home we discovered that Maria likes to play in the dirt...

Plans.....

Well we got some plans that I think will work with the small square footage of the cabin.
Basically, the living area would be in the back of the cabin facing the woods. We would landscape the backyard to encourage the squirrels and birds etc.



The front of the building would still have an enclosed porch ( too nice sitting out there with the lake breeze) but sitting inside and looking at the road from the cabin did not seem like a good idea.



Hidden in the "living area" would be an entertainment center on the back side of the kitchen cabinets that could be used for movies etc, just swivel the chairs around to watch.





The design software helps with visualizing the finished look. This view is from the front door looking into the building.

June 28th workout

The wee one running in the woods

Rotten part of wall and floor removed.

10 foot rim joist and sill plate removed due to rot. Door removed and wall put back in with OSB for outer skin. I forgot to take the all done picture.

May 31st work

Image of how new roof will look.

We are stalled till we get "plans" and something called a "permit" before we can "repair " the obvious damage to the building.

Should look nice once the pitched roof is popped into place.

Kids were a big help, they like going to the cabin.

This is the well and well, it is a mess. Oh of course the pump was split in half because it froze. We need to rip all this out.

Chimney video Part two

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDuaEKAXRIk



More Pics coming soon!!!!