June 23/24th beautiful weather weekend

This is the samples pulled at HD for the kitchen. Since we already have 2 of the cabinets and the flooring, we decided to make sure the top looked good with them. They have a light colored top but doesnt look as good.

Working the blue foam finally. Added last 7 sheets to the north wall. Once done we installed the vapor barrier. This was a tad more difficult with both kids not quite grasping the concept. But we did get it installed. Just as the mosquitoes hit for the night. Apparently we will use 37 or so pieces of siding to cover this wall. Ouch.

Vapor barrier installed, we have to wrap around the house then will cut the roll in half for the top piece. We should be able to wrap the south side of the house as well. Back wall needs foam board.

An old friend has passed. The frypan used for many many camping trips finally gave it up. I was trying to adjust the hump in the middle and the coating shattered and fell out. It was all burnt/crazy burned up in the middle under the coating. It now will hang in our wall of memories.

First things happened this weekend. First shower in the cabin was accomplished, still a tad too cool for my liking but wet and soapy for the win!!

Should have real hot water next trip or next next trip. We will see. We also worked on bathroom, finishing up drywall and building the closet. Figured out how to plumb in the sink. Door is next to be installed, wall is REALLY bugging me for being "straight" as cooked spaghetti.....

We also cut a piece of plywood up and have a beginning kitchen cook area. Much nicer to keep the kitchen stuff in the kitchen. Need to pull some electric over there for lighting and outlets.

Driving home is getting very hard to do.

new features

We added an outdoor faucet for easy access to water for the dogs and such....

We also "fixed" the two small leaks and everything is phase one water supply work should be good to go.

Added electrical circuit tot he maintenance room and will install a light next.  Hot water lines are next for the shower and to the water tank.

Need to finish up the shower install and get bathroom done for regular bathing.

water is flowing like a river

After much effort, and about $300.00 in supplies, we got the pump running. Not just running but "running"....

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Was what it looked like in 2009 when we started the whole thing.

Anyways, we now start plumbing out the stuff for running water. Toilet is first then shower and hot water tank.

And of course, running through the sprinkler IS the thing to do on a hot day..... Weather was amazing, little warm but a good breeze off lake for the win!!

Kitchen begins!!!!????

Memorial Day weekend, started working on the "kitchen". WHAT???? Don't we have enough going on to start one more big thing??? HA.....

Actually, Home Depot had 2 cabinets marked down and they were in the style I wanted for the kitchen. So I worked a deal and could not pass it up. What we have in the picture is the part where the cooktop will be installed. To the left of the wall cabinet will be an 18 inch "drawer" cabinet and then the sink base.I might add one more cabinet to the line here depends on walkway room. Also put down 2 more cases of flooring, should be 8 cases to go till we got the main floor covered. Certainly is easier to sweep the tile vesrsus the wood floor.

Still working on the water pump, stupid things.... grrrr.

Sunday was supposed to be "hot and in 90's" turns out we had all day rain till 4 when we left.

BRRRR!!!! Feels like February

Went up on Friday looking to work on the bathroom, Friday was rainy, dreary and cold. Yucky weather. Totally depressing. We burned a ton of wood to get house warmed up enough to want to even stay over. Saturday we made egg/cheese sandwiches and had a headache moving in so we worked on easier projects. Installed first wall upstairs to help frame in the bedroom.

We also ran electrical wires for the ceiling lights upstairs. Should be able to prep for insulating the roof next month. We have a couple of outlet boxes to install but that will not take long to complete. We purchased a new crimper for the pex pipes and should have what we need to run water lines in the bathroom.

The boys were all helping me get stuff done, as long as I was rubbing their ears!!

April 14th- crawling in the bathroom

Weekend of FUN!!! Hooked up the drain on the bathtub. Set new record for trips to hardware store (5) plus Home Depot.

Not sure how I will get under the backpart of the bathroom to hookup sink and kitchen drain yet. Pretty tight fit.

Once done we looked at the door frame as another request for privacy was made by the wee one. And lookee there, it doesn't fit!!! Not only the rough opening but the door will swing into the tub. YIKES! What happened?

Long story short we moved the wall 6 inches out to make it "fit". Only thing I can think is the plans were for a 28 inch tub and a 30 inch door. we have a 32 inch door and a 30 inch tub.

Destroyed the 10 foot drywall around door as we tried to remove it. What a mess. We got wall moved, looks fairly straight and ready for new drywall.

Bathroom is now the quest so we will be beating up the plumbing next couple trips.

We did have some fun, took dogs and kids for walk, hit Subway for a poorly made sub and then walked to the beach park. Hunter was first to go swimming and then Hank jumped in as well.

Sunday was grey and rainy, no motivation to do much. Read about 100 pages in my cabin book and laid around.

April 7th Easter weekend

Well last weekend our trip got cancelled  due to stomach issues, flu,rotovirus, whatever it was we were not doing much but hanging on. Good Friday drove up and crashed at the G'parents so kids could visit. Saturday morning got to place around 6:30, built a fire in stove and put the coffee on to brew. Had breakfast at the "log cabin place" and they asked where the kids were.....people starting to recognize us.

Anyways we worked on drilling out the major holes for the upstairs wall and was able to get the stair light circuit and the fan circuit run. Broke 2 drill bits doing the holes. While the battery was charging for the drywall cutter we also worked on hanging the insulation and drywall in the bathroom. Got that hung then started working on the tub. Ran the lines to the "solar shower" tank and got them in place, just need a tank and a "solar thingee" to make the water hot now.

Outside wall REALLY leans out , tub surround will need a large shimout to make it stable and straight. More custom work!