Living Simply for a Better Life
After some delays, we are finally making progress on the cabin again! Last week, the inspector came out and we passed the rough plumbing and electrical inspection and we have started on the interior. Our first priority was to get the insulation up before we […]
We have been horribly busy this last few weeks with not only duties here, but other things life brings. It feels like we never stop (actually, it’s not just a feeling come to think about it) and we never get enough done. We are plodding […]
We worked this past Saturday and took two days off work this week to get as much as we could on the cabin. We got lathe, insulation, boards, Timbor x 2, and stain on the back of the upstairs, as well as the second upstairs […]
Last Saturday we made alot of progress on the cabin. We were able to get half of the chinking done on the front, and trim on the top two windows. This allowed us to take the top layer of scaffolding off and then during the […]
Before we get started on the rough plumbing inside the house, we needed to finish up the waste line tying into the septic tank. We dug the ditch way back in the beginning and ran the line from the house to within a few feet […]
I joked in an earlier post about having a close relationship with wood, but seriously, every time we work on the house, I am amazed at what we have accomplished. I am continually in awe of how we have taken trees growing right here around […]
We now have the back door installed and all but two downstairs windows in, and those two will have to wait until the chinking is finished on the front of the house. The plan is to finish the board and batten on the back first […]
This weekend was predicted to be miserably cold and rainy, but we made plans to work anyway. Brother-in-law Extraordinaire came yet again (always bearing a fresh box of fritters) and worked with us all day. The morning dawned overcast but dry, so everyone set to work quickly, […]