Help from the Kids

Cam is helping Dad re-grade and compact the ground surrounding the cabin to prevent flooding.  The girls love to play in the snow, even without gloves.  Not until their hands are near-frozen solid do they realize the snow is actually cold.  This is the first snow of the upcoming winter season.  In a few months, the whole area will be covered in 6+ feet of snow.

Fall up on the Mountain

These pics don't even do justice to Fall on the Mountain.  In the early morning and late afternoon, when the sun slants through the trees, the foliage lights up like it is on fire.  It's really a remarkable sight. 

the roof (part two)

More pictures of the new black roof. 

the roof

The theme for this summer/fall at the cabin has been the roof. Just like everything else it has taken longer than we had expected but we are glad to have it done. We feel blessed that it is finished with no real mishaps. It looks great. We decided to go with a black roof because the logs are pretty rustic and the black will supposedly fade a bit. There aren't any other black roofs in our area so we thought it would be great to something different. We are happy with he results.

August

Dave took a few days off of work to go and finish the roof. Thankfully he had some help but he did do a little solo climbing of the roof which makes us all crazy. They put the insulation and plywood on and then had someone come put more tar paper on. We are hoping to have the metal up in the next few weeks. The good news is that Dave is finished with his own scaling of the roof. This is a relief. Now we will be trying to clean up around the cabin a bit before snowfall and then next summer have it all dried in.

July 2010

Dave spent the first week in July working on the roof. His brother Ted came from Arizona to help for the week. Thanks Ted. They worked on the framing that will hold in the insulation. It is slow going but at least it is not as stressful as last summer.

June

It is June and FINALLY everything seems do be dry up at the cabin. We took the Nomad (trailer) back up for our summer living. The kids were thrilled to be able to get back into the Nomad. They love it. While we were driving up the mountain road, Lauryn suddenly got very excited and said "It's our mountain!!! It's our mountain!!!" I thought that was precious. It was a beautiful day and we are anxious to get some work done. Dave got horseshoes for Father's Day. We will build a horseshoe pit and hopefully the kids will play without hitting each other in the head. Maybe I will be able to help a little more this summer.

This is a look at the inside main beam. I love this ceiling.

This is a look from the back of the cabin towards where the front door will be.

This is the "pond" that sits in our little community. It is beautiful right now. It is hard to believe that by the end of the summer this will be a mud pot. I hope that because the spring was so wet that maybe it will stay more of a pond rather than a mud hole.

It is obvious that some of us fared the winter better than others. The sad part is that the first thing Clara asked for was her baby. I had already thrown it in the trash. OOOPS!!!

The big melt down

Water Water Everywhere...

Last year at this time everything was completely dry. This year there is plenty of mud and the cabin is FULL of water. Dave spent a whole day pumping the water out so it could dry. I am grateful that I decided to stay home with the kids. What a mess.

The cabin survived a pretty harsh winter. The roof held up great and we are hoping to have it all dried in by the end of the summer.

winter wonderland

So Dave couldn't stand to be away from the cabin any longer so he and his friend, Roger who happens to have a cabin a few lots down from ours, got on a snowmobile and went to visit. They found everything in great shape which is a relief to us. It is hard to imagine that this snow might possible melt by May.