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.

little fire but fire nonetheless March 12th

Well it's still Winter up here and once again we are working on the woodstove. Today we had all the tools AND the correct seals. Got most of the pieces installed, sealed and screwed into place. Enough was assembled that we lit off a firestarter to see the flame in the stove. Small victories.

The other picture is of the best behaved character today, good ole "LC" also known as hunter. Good ole boy just wanted to sleep off his chicken skin and gristle lunch.....

And the other picture is the Hub now closed. Very sad in my opinion. Little market was so convenient and they had raisin biscuits. Oh well not everything works out as planned. Hopefully the meat market survives.

Feb. 26th

Cabin was a bracing 20 degrees when we arrived. We delivered our woodstove and made tea on the gas stove. Refilled the squirrel feeder and sat around figuring out the stove for about an hour. We need a 45 degree pipe to connect to the outdoor chimney.

No snow on the roof, the 12 inches we got missed the area I guess.

Remodelling season is getting close!!!!

Feb. 13th play in the snow

Playing in the snow this weekend. Funny how going up north causes tension headaches.... or maybe it's something else triggering them. Who knows!!!

Hank helped decorate the snowman for the kids once they finished making him. We all took a nap/lunch break while the clothes dried out on the "close line".

Snow pile was about 4 feet deep and Hank was playing king of the hill. We had about 8 squirrels at the feeder and spent a bit of time just watching them fool around on the feeder.

Snowmeggeddon...

We made the trip up to make sure the cabin was ok after snowmegeddon 2011. After cleaning the roof at the in-laws we went over to work on the roof. About 24 inches of snow at the peak and tapered down to about 8 inches at the eaves. Scraped most of that off and went in for a hot tea.

Driveway is no longer 4x4 accessible, snow is piled up over 3 feet and packed in pretty good.