The Drunken Bear

The Dutch door leading out of the kitchen. Steve working on the display shelf. The hemlock soffit. Steve and Yoey under the gazebo playing Mexican Train. View from the Bridal Vail Falls trail. The snow drift that kept us from making it to Bridal Vail Falls. Steve working on the French doors leading from the living room. Steve and I working on one of the large front windows in the living room. Steve finishing work on the first window we installed.   This one is in the kitchen and cranks open . Our wonderful Mt. Index on a nice spring day. NOTE: This was written almost two months ago but never posted. I thought I would post it before adding a new update. Once again it has been quite some time since the last posting. This year there is not the urgency in getting the work done as we had last year. Why, you may be asking. Well, last year we were wanting to get the cabin enclosed before the winter came. Now that the cabin is enclose...

August party - Yoey Radoslovich, Paul Davison, Mike U., Robert Wisdom, myself, Steve Carlson. (photo is courtesy of Michael Osterman)   A very expensive campfire! This is some of the rotted wood we will have to replace at about $9.00 a foot.   Inner walls with logs from the kit. Inner walls being enclosed into rooms. The last two trusses waiting for installation (on the left). Steve putting the plywood down. The tar papering is finished. Snow drift in front (snow slid off the roof as planned). Snow drift in back. The cabin covered in the new metal roof. A stand of alder trees nearby. I have been pretty lax in updating this blog and thought I would try to catch-up to the current status. Since the last entry, much has been accomplished. We are at the point now where you can see what the cabin will look like when we are all done. Just after the last entry, we had a great 3 day weekend party to celebrate a friend’s v...