Fort and porch roof

Brandon decided to build a fort...

He's driven every nail himself. Looking good Brandon!

Here is the new porch roof we added to the house. The wood was all cut on the sawmill.

Spring Snow Storm April 29-30 2010

We had a Spring Snow Storm starting yesterday. When we left home Thursday morning, it had just started to snow. When we left work Thursday evening it was snowing in town but there was hardly anything on the ground. The closer we got to the house, the more snow there was.

The pictures are out of order, but the last ones were of when we got home. The others are of today when we woke up. Needless to say, we did not make it to town to go to work. Our power was out for about 15 hours.

The snow measured anywhere from 17 inches to 48 inches depending on where you measured. The deepest was around the garage where the snow had fallen off of the garage.

These were taken Thursday after we got home from work.

After building the log notching jigs, I decided to start over on the little log cabin. I took down the logs and cut off all of the notches. Then I used the jigs to cut new ones. The fit is much better this way.

I hired Kevin Jagoda to help me yesterday and we got alot done. We sawed about 12 logs, plus we re cut the logs I already had so they would be the same size- 7"x9". I also worked on it today after church. All total this weekend, we cut, notched and stacked 28 logs. That's pretty good for one weekend! I plan to sell the cabin logs. If they don't sell, we'll have a little guest cabin I guess.