July 4th weekend

Arrived at Stony on Thursday night and stayed in the John Dwyer camp. The Joe Dwyers were up (32 of the 46?), as was Joe Stevens, and it was such a pleasure to have such friendly, gracious company for the weekend. Wish I could remember all the kids names but names were never my strength.

Tim and Nick installed the 16' beam on Thursday, using 2x's to shim up each end 1.5" at a time. Tim thinks it weighs 600 lbs. LoknLogs does not skimp on structure. This is built to last. Got a delivery of materials from Widmeyer on Friday (mostly porch boards) and helped Tim and Nick finish setting floor joists and the 8' beam for the second floor. Joe Dwyer helped me put in half the porch boards on Saturday, while Cory sorted and lugged logs up to the camp (hurting his back). Gerry came by on Sunday and we finished the porch. We put down screen under the boards to discourage bugs from attacking us from the below.

Unbelievable fireworks party across the lake on the 4th I am told, but I was so exhausted, I went to bed at 9PM and actually slept thru it with the help of some ear plugs. Over the weekend, Paula, Cory and I sorted the rest of the logs and brought them up from the driveway so they are now stacked inside in the order we need to access them for every course. Mind you they go up in the air now, so need to get some scaffolding for the south gable end.

Cory and I attacked the dormer on the lake side, and got about half the courses up before we had to leave. Tim and Nick got the porch headers up Tuesday and were starting back on the cabin for a day or so. Paula walked around and took some snaps with my Blackberry to show where we are.