WE'LL BE GONE IN ONE WEEK

There is so much to do before leaving.

John and I worked on the mill yard today.

We pulled the crane truck out of the back forty and set it up where

we can use it for lifting the logs in place for our log spec home.

John is like a wizard with that bobcat when it comes to levelling land.

Hopefully we'll start laying down the logs tomorrow.

Now this was the highlight of my Week/Month.

I was going thru some old boxes of stuff we have in storage and I found my Pumkinhead.

Pumkinhead was my Teddy bear that I loved when I was a baby.

His eyes fell out and I gave him a haircut when I was about 4 years old but 

I still loved him.

I couldn't sleep if he wasn't with me at bedtime.

He was always in another part of my bedroom in the morning when I woke up

and I believed that he played all night while I was sleeping.

I'm so happy I still have him.

He looks a bit like my Daisy dog.

OCTOBER IS ALMOST HALF OVER

It's been a busy month.

 I've been hanging out at the mill trying to get more logs done for our spec house

 but there is always something else to do before we can get back at it.

First we had to get an entrance to a commercial building done.

The logs were in our way and the owner of this job was chomping the bit to get it done.

These posts are heavier than they look.

So I'm standing there staring at the long beam wondering how the hell we're 

going to get it up when I saw a construction white hat from another job walking past.

I went and asked who owned the bobcat and if we could use it.

He was a really nice guy and said it was his and we were welcome to it.

WHEW.

This turned into an all day job.

Why is everything harder than planned.

Back home Carrie got a job building a barn door for a customer of hers.

She got some rough wood from John and then she milled it down in our shop.

It turned out beautiful. Her customer loved it.

Finally , we started doing our logs.

John is milling them out of some pine we went up to Enderby and bought.

It takes him about 20 minutes to do each log 

but we are getting two twenty-four foot logs out of each tree.

Next he brings them over to the quanset where I start work on them.

First I run a groover two times on the top and bottom.

This is a slow process. Especially if the tree hasn't had a chance to dry.

Next I router the edges.

On the house we built for Carrie we trimmed the corners with a skill saw.

I think that looked nicer but is was quite a bit slower.

These logs will still look nice when assembled .

Lastly I router the space between what I did with the groover.

We put a thin layer of insulation in-between each log.

It has nothing to do with heat insulation but it stops noise 

from being transferred from outside into the house.

That surprised me when I found that out.

The finished product.

 Now we only need to do that about 24 more times.

One log goes a long way when you figure in all the doors and windows.

We are also building this house with 16 inch tall logs.

Ruth calls this Man Glitter.

We finally cleaned out the shed. 

The sawdust was over 2 feet thick.

The workbench was level with my knees.

It's so nice to work in there now.

Back home I gave Jack some shooting lessons.

He's a regular Danial Boone.

Ellie gave herself a haircut one morning. Her bangs were in her eyes.

She loved it. Now she can see.

Ellie is such a cute kid. 

She's like her mom. She walks to her own drummer.