LOGS!!!

Half-wall for island in kitchen.

Deck flooring complete!!

More progress on the deck!

We love plumbing in the springtime . . .

We love plumbing in the fall . . .

We love plumbing in the summer . . .

We love it anytime at all!!

Supports are set for the deck!

Soffits and Fascia

Nothing like soffits and fascia to begin to add a look of completion to a home!

I think that I shall never see, a poem lovely as a tree.

Between April 1945 and May, 1948, my grandparents, their friends, my father and my future mother, would plant 19,000 trees on the property our family now owns on the Pigeon River. 

Here are the notations from the books:

4/25-26-27-28/45   1,000 Jack Pine, 1,000 White Pine, 1,000 Norway Pine

10/15/45    3,000 Spruce, 1,000 Jack Pine

9/21/46    500 Red Pine, 1,500 Spruce, 1,000 Douglas Fir, 1,000 Jack Pine

5/5/47    500 Jack Pine, 1,000 Red Pine, NE of Cabin

10/2-3-4/47    500 White Spruce, 1,500 Jack Pine, 1,000 Red Pine on E & W side of Driveway on N 80

5/7-8/48    1,000 Jack Pine, 1,000 Spruce, 1,000 Ponderosa Pine, 500 Scotch Pine

More framing is done on the second floor.

Second floor bathroom.  Shower with tub will be against the far wall.  Can you picture it, Nancy?

Closet at the end of the larger bedroom.

Closet at the end of the smaller bedroom, with the bathroom behind it. 

How about some WINDOWS!!!

And sliding glass doors!

And, basement stairs!

I call this composition "Basement stairs with Ladder".

Basement stairs, no ladder  : - )

July 26th, 2011 The shingles go on!

Roofers are done with the shingles.  Lots of trim work left to do later.