The Drunken Bear

This is what the weather looked like as we were crossing the 520 bridge.  On a clear day you would be looking at Mt. Rainier... today you could only see the sun trying to break through. By the time we got to The Drunken Bear, the sky had cleared and it turned into a beautiful fall day.  And typical of a fall day here in the Pacific Northwest, the spiders are out in full force.  Luckily for us, these are not poisonous spiders.  But, they build their webs between very wide openings and if you are not paying attention, you will walk right into them. This is a close-up of the peak in the second photo above.  We think this peak has been loosing rock since we started building.  It is fascinating to see this peak in different positions of the sun, as the shadows are always changing.  We will be watching to see if more rock is lost this winter. A little of the fall color in the valley of another peak to the right of the picture above. Thi...

It all began in the spring when our friends, Joe Radoslovich and Robert Wisdom joined Steve and began the long process of sanding the cabin's logs on the outside. Off and on during the spring and summer, Steve and I continued this process when we weren't busy doing other tasks. Now if this had been a new Pan-Abode building, the sanding would not have been necessary, but since ours had sat for many years, there was quite a bit of discoloring and quite a few marks left where the logs had been stacked against other logs. Again, if you remember from the first postings, there was also some rot in some of the logs we used, so we had to use wood putty to fill in these areas. We wanted to get the cabin sealed before the onset of winter weather. Then came my accident and quess who the chore of applying the sealant fell on...the ever trusty, Steve. He came by one day and we went to the hardware store to decide on what sealant we would use. Wheeling around a big box hardware store on one ...