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Raise a glass!

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Raise a glass!
Happy birthday Dad.

70

August 31, 1951 a little boy was born in Michigan. Today would have been his 70th birthday. Blessed memory.

Monday, Monday

Started the day off with getting our electric service hooked up. Dean worked on sizing joists while I set up our rain shelter and hooked up our temp power outlets.

The mill broke down so Sheldon showed up on the job site to give us a hand. We sailed through setting the floor system and in no time the sheeting was down and BAM!

Look Ma, it’s a floor!

Tomorrow is walls! Woohoo!

#shebuildsit

#cabin

Winter IS Coming!

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Winter IS Coming!

The best part of waking up is a lap full of a boy and his pup.

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The best part of waking up is a lap full of a boy and his pup.
I just thought I was going to sit here and enjoy a quiet cup of coffee...

On to another project.

No rest for the weary. Finished one cabin yesterday and rolled into the new job site this morning. This is a 12′ x 24′ cabin, dry in only. (No interior or finish work!!)

We spent half a day gathering supplies. The rest of the day we set our paver/pier foundation & brackets.

Ready for the floor system.

Then we sized our rough sawn beams and set them into place. Leveled and squared them and cut our rim joist and laid out our joist placement.

Time flies when you’re having fun. Time to clean up and stow our tools. Monday we will knock out the floor joists and blocking. Hopefully getting some sheeting down for the floor too.

Good-bye summer!

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Good-bye summer!
Fireweed is almost done. Winter is coming

Finished!

A happy little cabin, nestled in the happy little trees on a happy little lake.

Finished!! The building that is. There’s still plenty of clean up to be done this weekend. On to another waiting project.

#alaskabuilt

#cabinlife

#lakelife

#whitespruce

Got some new chickens!

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Got some new chickens!
Orange & Banana, our new fruity hens.

Almost done

We’re almost done with this little log tiny house build.

280′ square feet of interior living space. Equal storage space below. 4′ x 14′ of covered front porch. Full service kitchen and 3/4 bath. The customer will be doing the shower at a later date

So much finish work. The bathroom pocket door trim consists of 12 components! All custom made trim, nothing store bought. It’s all Alaskan white spruce. Local logs milled at SND’s sawmill. You can’t get more “Alaskan Made”.

#alaskalife

#tinyhouse

#logcabin