It is just half past midnight, so time to close out the day. Still light outside through.
We started building a little deck and stairway up to the deck on the north side of the cabin. There is just the one floor to the cabin, which is really a log cabin pushed up to a stick house and they are melded togather with a high pitch roof.
The attic or area above the main floor of the cabin has about 12" high ceiling - which is the underside of the roof. We hope to rip out all the existing ceiling of the first floor, put in 2 X 10's for floor joists for the new ceiling - aka upstairs floor - , sheet with 3/4" plywood, insulate the wall area, sheet that with 3/8" plywood and make the beginnings of a second floor to the house. We then must sheet the main floor ceiling with 3/8" plywood. We can not afford to get sheet rock out here due to the shipping costs so I will hopefully try to texture the plywood to look half way decent.
We had quite a few visitors today at the cabin. Some came early. One man came very early and we did not hear him knock on the door. Later more came and I was in the shower so they waited outside for me. More came throughout the day. Can be busy at the Carson's.
One of the ways we try to earn some money is to raise chickens. We have sold a few and now many of the village kids come at all hours to ask if they can look at the baby chicks. The last one came tonight at 9:30 pm - child, not chick.
Another way I thought of to get better known in the villages is to get my Federal Firearms License. Now we get calls and visits from more people we would never have met or who would never come to our home.
So between the chickens, the goats - oh yes, did I mention the goats? - guns and anything else we can think of, we are known by many.
Have a great day and we will try to get pictures up on the construction project. Did I smell wire burning???? Was I suppose to put a nail through that big black wire???
We started building a little deck and stairway up to the deck on the north side of the cabin. There is just the one floor to the cabin, which is really a log cabin pushed up to a stick house and they are melded togather with a high pitch roof.
The attic or area above the main floor of the cabin has about 12" high ceiling - which is the underside of the roof. We hope to rip out all the existing ceiling of the first floor, put in 2 X 10's for floor joists for the new ceiling - aka upstairs floor - , sheet with 3/4" plywood, insulate the wall area, sheet that with 3/8" plywood and make the beginnings of a second floor to the house. We then must sheet the main floor ceiling with 3/8" plywood. We can not afford to get sheet rock out here due to the shipping costs so I will hopefully try to texture the plywood to look half way decent.
We had quite a few visitors today at the cabin. Some came early. One man came very early and we did not hear him knock on the door. Later more came and I was in the shower so they waited outside for me. More came throughout the day. Can be busy at the Carson's.
One of the ways we try to earn some money is to raise chickens. We have sold a few and now many of the village kids come at all hours to ask if they can look at the baby chicks. The last one came tonight at 9:30 pm - child, not chick.
Another way I thought of to get better known in the villages is to get my Federal Firearms License. Now we get calls and visits from more people we would never have met or who would never come to our home.
So between the chickens, the goats - oh yes, did I mention the goats? - guns and anything else we can think of, we are known by many.
Have a great day and we will try to get pictures up on the construction project. Did I smell wire burning???? Was I suppose to put a nail through that big black wire???
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