Sunday, August 23, 2009

Weekend at the Cabin - Front Porch Roof - THE BEGINNING...

Of course, a shot of Kuuma doing her "usual thing" at the cabin - on post waiting for chipmunks to run right in front of her face.

The first few TGI's in place

Earl taking time to smile for the camera

At the half way there point

We had a great system - Earl and Charlie would put the TGI's and spacer blocks in place, and Brian and I would cut the TGI's and spacer blocks to fit
See the next post below for the finished product!

Weekend at the Cabin - Front Porch Roof - FINISHED!

The view from the top of the TGI's all of the way across the roof line

Side view of the cabin and porch roof

All of us very happy we were able to finish - all in one day - with the TGI's

Earl and I up on the roof

Another roof shot!

Next, to finish putting down the plywood over the TGI's...


Sunday, August 16, 2009

We've struck Yukon Gold...

So we pulled up our Yukon Gold Potatoes because we were not sure if there was a "bug" or not...the plant was looking droopy and the leaves looked like they had been eaten on. The big ones are the size a baseballs and the small ones the size of walnuts. We hope there really wasn't a "bug" so we can enjoy our harvest!


Saturday, August 15, 2009

We've been canning...

Man oh man...cannig is a lot of work! We have cucumber and zucchini overload - we give a bunch away and we still have more than we can eat fresh. We canned last week, zucchini pickles, and this weekend, we canned the cucumber dill pickles and zucchini relish you can see above. There are four quarts and one pint of dill pickles and eight half-pints of relish.

Sunday, August 2, 2009

Working and having fun at Brian and Charlie's cabin

Kuuma treed the Chipmunk - this was a very long process it all began on Friday, you can see below in a backwards story...

Kuuma's chipper friend in the tree, she/he would work up the tree when Kuuma came around and then would work back down the tree to see if she was paying attention and you better believe she was at all times. Kuuma has chipmunk eyes!

Friday night she had worn herself out trying to find the chipmunk and you can see below she though it was in the wood pile - Do you think her tongue could get ANY longer?

Cute Kuuma butt trying to find the chipmunk

Kuuma taking post. Kuuma is the chipmunk watch dog, she will sit for hours on end just waiting for any movement that might be a chipmunk, she is on guard and so tense about her "job" that she will wear herself out.
Now to what we were doing at the cabin...

We were log washing the inside of the cabin - the logs look so clean and bright now!

Just a shot of some of the walls Brian and Charlie put up - view from the front door

Another shot of the walls from the back door by the kitchen area and the first room through the wall of studs is the bathroom - it now has a bathtub plumbed in and the toilet is next