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.

window weekend June 19th

Amazing what can get done with a little effort. We finished all the window replacements. This picture is after finishing the upper windows ( picture order is backwards). This was the hardest to do window as it was all ladder and scaffold work and the kids wanted to see what we did up high.




Emily was in charge of pictures and only took like 10 to get this shot.




Finished product for the weekend., Ignore the scrap pile and junk, dumpster coming soon!!! All we need is the door to go in on the left side of wall and then can start siding.

The last window. Takes the boarded up look away and really helps light up the cabin. This wall will be first one sided.

Weekend of June 12th - red flannel alert!!

Well good thing we got the woodstove, had 4 fires in it over the weekend to warm up the place. Temps earlier in week were in 90's but weekend kept drifting into low 50's /40's and solid breezes off lake kept it cool. Breeze helped keep mosquitoes at bay too!!

Not much work, seems we forgot the framing square so cannot layout stair stringer without it. Installed small window in maintenace area of cabin and it has a good view of road. Took measurements for roof and to start siding outside of house.

Early Sunday coffee drinkers got to see two deer walk in and sample the bird feeder offerings.

Hank got out of the pen again, but this time rolled in something that really stank.

Memorial Day 2011

Four Days of relaxation at the cabin. Wow what a nice time. Weather was a mixed bag, cold, rain, hot, sunny. Typical Michigan I guess. We got the woodstove working and had two fires in it, one for testing, and one because it was in the upper 40's on Saturday. We also found we can cook on the top and so we made fresh rolls and heated up our brats and sausages.

Lot of work got done, not too many pictures though. The stairway was framed in and we hung 3 of the 4 sheets of drywall inside the stairway. Next is the stringers and steps up to the loft. We framed in the wall-hallway section- pretty time intensive with all the angles and such involved.

Emily helped with the tree fort and the picture shows up putting the initial flooring. Next step is rest of flooring and then the railing so kids can play on it.

Pretty mellow time.

May 7-8 weekend

SPRING has SPRUNG!!!! What a beautiful weekend we had. PERFECT weather.

Saturday we spent working on the wall layouts and tightening up the floor joists in the loft. Nothing to photo as not much changed. We are ready for walls to go up and next time we work on the place that will get done.

Sunday we switched gears and began our clubhouse project. Kids wanted a tree house to go with the swing set. This is pretty much the same as building a house project so the day was spent on that.

April updates

Well plenty of work this month, not much posting. We finished the floor joists for the loft and began the center wall that will support them. This picture is from the front door. We also got the stairway hole framed in and ready for stairs.








This picture is from the "front of the cabin" ( most people would say from the back). The area to the right will become a bedrooom soon.