It has been a while, I know. Sometimes life gets hectic but I assure you, S-wood is always on my mind and I am always full of posts, just a matter of sitting down and writing them out!
It was a gloomy weekend up there weather-wise and it poured yesterday but we still had a great time, great food, and great work time. It was also a “no kid” weekend which basically means that the children are at their dad’s for the weekend so we were all alone and able to work at our own pace and not worry about other people. Dave and I are usually [...]
The door that didn’t fit
A Sewage Masterpiece
Fantastic weather, wonderful company, good hard honest work and indooooor plumbing. What more can a girl ask for? I got up there late friday night, Django and I took an alternate route to cabin due to traffic so there wasnt enough time to do anything but eat and drink and get some shut eye but saturday the great indoor plumbing challenge began! The end result is pictured on the left.
Remember, we dont have running water as of now because the well is something like 800 feet and we dont have enough solar power to run a pump. So for now we will fill the tank manually as shown in [...]
Big Happenings
So much great stuff to update!We left saturday for cabin, just got back today. We needed some time up there to get some stuff done so we took a few days off from work in order to do it. We arrived and went right to the lumber yard and got some rough saw wood for the bathroom. We had gotten the wainscoting months ago and just needed the top half of the walls in order to continue. I had this vision in my head of white wainscoting and white washed blue tops to the walls, thats why the tub is painted that color! SO we woke up early on sunday [...]
Interior Progress- Bathroom
Dave and I set out early this morning to install the laminate flooring that we scored at Lowes. It is recycled from a damaged return from a customer that did not care about the material. The top boards were a mess but the boards in the bundle itself were gorgeous.
I let dave lay a few pieces while I dusted off my camera. He did the cut and I laid the floor. We were a great team and accomplished it in only a few hours.
We moved all the really heavy furniture back in the room and I took a picture. Remember, most of this furniture was recycled from the dump or [...]