View from the road.
This is the east side (view from Bridle Path
Loop) of the cabin
and inside is the "Great Room". |
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This is the back
west side of the cabin. Erik is on the ladder
staining the logs.
The crew stained and sealed the logs inside
and out. THEN, we
put caulk in the cracks between the logs.
Then we stained
and sealed the half-log facing on the second
floor and caulked
between the facing. On this back side of the
cabin, it is 23
feet from the ground to the peak of the cabin. |
We had to get a
little creative to stain, seal and caulk the upper
half-logs. Bob is
staining the half logs at the peak. |
The elements were
not good to us in the summer of 1999. It rained
almost every day.
The rain soaked the caulking before it dried and
here Sue is rubbing
the dried caulk off the logs. |
By August 7, 1999
we had learned our lesson from the
rain and began covering
the caulked logs with plastic. |
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This view is from September 7, 1999. The family crew had
to stain 9,000 feet
of tongue and groove boards for the walls
and ceiling. Here
you see the "staining factory" we set up in
the great room. |
Here is Steve, Bob
and Erik with a portion of the stained
tongue and groove
boards that will be used for the walls
and ceilings. |
Sue's brother Jim Walsh
joined us for a weekend of staining. |
Shawn on the balcony
taking a break from staining the posts and rails. |
Bob and Sue in the
"great room". |
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December 3, 1999.
Bob, Sue, Steve and Carol escaped to
the Pine country
for another weekend at the Cabin. Everyone
was busy with their
"list" of things to do. Saturday was a 'long'
day and we finally
called it quits and went to dinner at 8pm.
Sunday was another
long day with more of the same, different lists.
This photo shows
Steve with his own "rock" project. Several
weeks ago he decided
the best way to cover the sump blocks
of the stem wall
was to pile lava rock around the edges. This
way it appears the
Cabin is rising from the volcanic rocks of
the mountain. Brawn
and Art meet at the rock pile. |
December 3, 1999.
Special artistic contributions are welcome
and very much appreciated.
This view is the downstairs bedroom.
The quilt you see
over the bed was hand-made by Cecilia Rogge,
a friend who works
at the Montessori school. |
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