Saturday, April 18, 2020 I planned today as a light-duty weekend. It’s only been a week since my hand landed me in the ER, and it is not healed enough yet for me to use it much. However, next week is calling for rain, so I do want to finish…
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April 11 and 12, 2020 We knew that was coming, didn’t we? The weekend started out like any other lately. I was up early and at River Song by about 8:30. My plans for the weekend included finishing installing the upper floor OSB and fixing the metal roof. After I…
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April 4 and 5, 2020 Another busy weekend working on my cabin! This weekend’s plans include adding the second floor and a roof. I picked up another truckload of 2x4s from Home Depot earlier in the week and already had all four upper walls framed and ready for installation. By…
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Saturday, March 28, 2020 Like many people around the world, I feel like I’m going nuts being locked up inside all the time. Fortunately, I have a place to get away from all this madness while also practicing social distancing. And also, fortunately, building supply stores are still considered “essential…
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Saturday, March 21, 2020 My plans this weekend were relatively laid back: install the front window and frame the sleeping loft. Nothing more. I needed a break. I’d work a little bit today, relax on my new front deck, and then go kayaking with FH tomorrow. In addition, my new…
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Saturday, March 14, 2020 Happy Pi Day! This weekend’s plans included adding the mud room and the front deck. The mud room is to be a 4’x6′ extension to the back of the cabin. Along with the back door and a small space for depositing muddy clothes and boots, it…
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Saturday, March 7, 2020 I had a double-header planned for the weekend: Saturday at River Song, and Sunday snowshoeing at Mount Rainier. I headed out to River Song early Saturday morning. I didn’t have any firm plans and just decided to let the day unfold organically. I brought all my…
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February 29 & March 1, 2020 Finally! My first winter camping trip! Well, no, actually, not my first. I’ve been winter camping several times, but always in places I’ve driven to, and usually sleeping in my truck. This was my first winter camping trip where I snowshoed in. I was…
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Saturday, February 22, 2020 I had been looking forward to today all week! I spent the past few evenings this week working hard building two doors for my cabin–one for the front, and one for the back. The two doors are pretty much identical: 3/4″ plywood, 24″ wide, 80″ tall,…
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Presidents Day Weekend, 2020 Day One: The weather promised to be crap Saturday and Sunday, but I didn’t care. I was eager to get started building my cabin! I packed all my tarps–and I have a LOT of tarps!–my tools, and everything I needed for spending the weekend working at…
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