Us at the "Gut"

Us at the "Gut"

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

April 27th 2011

Well we have been busy at home redoing the kitchen, painting and stuff, so we didnt get up much in the spring time this year. I picked up and old 3 wheeler over the winter and this was its first trip up there... Worked great!!!
I managed to take a day off and boy what a great day it was...well till the end lol... I managed to get the one exterior wall sided and complete the porch railing...












We were driving out the road and I pulled to the right to make sure an other car could pass... Well the next thing I knew I was being sucked into the ditch... $90 and a tow truck later we were on our way again. We stopped at Burliegh Falls to see the falls:

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

January 26th 2011

Well its my 41st birthday and it seemed like we should get up to the cabin and check things out... It was a pretty snowy winter so far and I needed to make sure my porch was still standing...



The dogs and I went for a snowshoe and found quite a number of "beds" that animals had used the night before... Pretty cool to find if I say so myself:




And of course here are my companions for the day :)

Thursday, November 25, 2010

Nov 25th 2010

We have been up to the cabin twice since August and just really went to enjoy the place. On this visit Patty completely emptied the cabin and worked on re-arranging the inside.





While Patty was working inside I worked on the porch some more and the porch railing:




Monday, August 2, 2010

August 2nd 2010

 Well bug season is over, and we have been up to the property twice since my last post. Both times just to relax and enjoy the place (as long as the bugs let us stay lol). We also have the property next to ours for sale $59000.00 if your interested, which is WAYYYYYYYYYYY more than we paid.
 I am please to report that Patty stayed her first night alone up there since my last post. She took the dogs and went up and enjoyed the land, some fishing and mostly sleeping I think lol... Proud of her that she did it!!!!

On to the cabin... Yesterday Patty and I went up to the property for the afternoon really just to relax and look at the survey stakes for the lot next to us. Its nice to know where one of our boundaries are, and free as well!!! Cant beat that... This got me in cabin mode, no bugs, nice breeze... Ok right back to the cabin, so I returned today with hopes of getting the porch roof on...

Here is what will be my posts. They are cedar recovered from that barn tear down we went to in the spring. I cut them to notch the 2x4 in, and cut them to length:




























I then started to add the rafters, which are old cedar 2x4's reclaimed from a womans house who was moving. I cut these at home with a 6 degree cut on either end and 90' long:






























I then added some branches (which are from trees we fell in clearing the lot) as supports and braces. In some cases these may change, but you get the idea:











































I almost ran into this guy, knew Patty would like to see it so here are some stots:





























I thought that I had sheets of plywood up there, but I just had some pieces. So I took the time to put them up for the time being until I can get full sheets up there:














It was a great day all and all, the porch roof is nearly done and I managed to tire 2 dogs and myself lol... Hope to get back up there this weekend and finish the porch and maybe another deck??? or a window??? or finish some siding??? oh the list is endless.... and I love it!!!

Sunday, July 4, 2010

July 4th 2010

Well its been a while since I last posted on here, but hey thats bug season lol... We have been quite busy around the house in our "off" season and did get a lot done here. New decks, shutters install, workshop roof reshingled, painting, garage sales and oh yeah raising all the kids lol... Patty and I actually started cleaning up the workshop for the garage sale and had accumliated quite a pile of things fo rthe cabin, so we thought we would take a load up...

Here is the truck as we left:

  • Futon
  • Cabinets
  • Screen door
  •  Dolly








We got up the cabin and found that the bugs were quite bad actually, so it was a good thing we had brought all the indoor work. We empited the cabib out and started to hang the cabinets:










































We also got the futon in and Patty is making sure that it didn't get away lol:



We also got the screen door hung:














Here are the two cabinet together:














All and all I think they turned out great, even greater since I didnt measure any of it lol...

Thats all for now...

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

April 19 2010

Well Patty is off at some training in the big smoke, I decided that I would go up to the cabin after work and deliver some of the wood we got over the weekend. I also planned on completing the deck, and getting some measurements for the rest of the porch. All went really well, other than I forgot the camera in the truck, so all of the pictures I have are taken as I was leaving... Good news is the deck is done, bad news is that the bugs are starting there apperance for the season, so I am not sure how many more evenings I will be able to spend up there, but hey Rome wasn't built in a day....








Free firewood from a local truss and lumber yard, could it get any better than this!!!!


The insulation that you see in the truck is being returned to home depot tomorrow... The wood stove provides us with more than enough heat lol... It was nice to get up there and get that out of the main level, looks really big now... Cabinets next time???? ;)