Bluffs across the Gorge

Here's some pics from this past week, colors are changing quick.

1st Signs of Color

Yeehaw, the plumber is just about done. The electrician is working hard and should be done in  a week. The ext. siding is going on, and looks great. Things are really coming together, and with good luck we should be inside within a month. I had my neighbor Tim take out some trees and do some clearing around the house, and it looks so good. He also prepared the hot tub deck area so I can get busy and buy me a tub. I need a soak, and the electrician said he could hook me up before final. I also got a call from Scott Phillips in Parthenon, my big cedar logs are starting to come out of the logging woods and will be on the yard soon. The last week has been spent procuring interior finish material. We are spending too much money, but the opportunity to build a special and uniuqe home is right there in front of us. Hopefully the budget wont get too out of control, but becouse of keeping our costs so low on other parts of the house, we are able to spend more on the interior finish items. Hope everyone enjoys this beautiful day. SYOTMS we hope

Finding Local Lumber Mills

Yesterday was a good day, I needed to find a local mill that would cut my huge cherry logs and then kiln dry and plane them. Lucky for me, I found exactly what I need 10 miles from the house. Buffulo River Hardwoods will kiln dry, plane, and straight line boards up to 24" wide and also sells hardwoods. I also found where to take my logs to be ripped into boards down in Ponca. It is really cool to use local wood, and with some work, you can have a really custom and unique home. Another cool thing is using Dad's 54 yr. old cherry and walnut wood he has been hoarding. Well the place is starting to really come together, and I wont have Scott's services very much longer. Hopefully, he will finish most of the siding before he's gone. I have hired a sheetrock sub, so the last piece of the puzzle is done, now it's time to push, push, push. The weather has been unbelievable, a wonderful fall so far and the leaves are showing signs of turning soon. These great fall days started at the 1st of september, and it has been nice and cool since then. Well, I lost the outhouse race after suffering 2 pulled muscles in my glutius minimis. But it was alot of fun, and Matt got to drive the outhouse in the race. It's been kind of lonely up here lately, it will be nice when folks start showing up at the cabin to enjoy the fall. Til then, take care and, SYOTMS   Roger