Halloween vacation

1) Stopped on Friday morning at 9A to see building official, Paul Gyore and pulled a permit, even though no construction yet.

2) Met Bill Lee who put in the driveway. Ended up using 108 tons of driveway mix, on top of geotech fabric. He leveled out the dip, so grade is better. It seemed a bit soft, but several people swear it will gets rock hard eventually.

3) Dropped a dead 75 foot pine at top of driveway, cut into 2 logs that seemed pretty good, and chopped up the rest.

4) Trimmed and moved other logs into accessible spots (hard to move by myself), either for Ross Phelps (from Chases Lake) with his portable band saw or for someone to bring to the local sawmill. I would like 1x6 boards or 1x8 boards for use as shelving, fencing (probably want some short pieces at top where very steep), board and batten sheds, closing in crawl space, etc.

5) Met Steve Snyder and his son Tyler who moved some log piles, stacked logs on the ground in piles, and hauled brush down past septic towards road. Maybe someday rent Ace Hardware commercial chipper (has a ball type hitch) and turn it into mulch.

6) Cleared a staging area towards lake at top of driveway to store LokNLogs kit logs. Need to build platforms to store logs up out of mud. Same spot can be future grass parking area for a car or two as well.

7) Put up some 2x4’s sticking in air where future cabin corner should be. I shifted it a bit more trying to make it easier to build, and trying to see lake.

8) Cut a few dead trees down towards lake near future paths. Found 2 winding paths from either side of the lot, and one steeper direct route from middle. All 3 intersect in middle below and could angle left or right to dock.

9) Tried to push the apparently teetering rock in picnic area over the side, but it was stubborn. Maybe pull it back (skid steer) and put with other rocks in better spot.

JDIII, Joan, & Beth came up Sun morning with Ella and James, and they all fed me dinner Sunday night.

Hope to drive up again after Thanksgiving for a few days. That may be my last chance prior to snow.