Home Is Where the Heart Is

Recently our 9 year old daughter, Gabby, said that of all the places we have lived, this is her favorite home. Understand that for most this would be the least desirable place to live, a 36 year old single wide where our family of seven makes our home now. When asked why, she replied, "It is so cozy and cuddly and I like cozy and cuddly."

Home is not the box you live in, but home is where there is family. Our family works together, laughs together, eats together, prays together, studies together, and yes cuddles together. And did I mention LAUGHS together. Our home is nothing pretty to look at, but it is filled with love. We all agree with Gabby, our home is cozy and we love living here. I hope Gabby will like our 2300 sq. foot lob cabin, too. I think she will because home truly is where the heart is.

All the Lumber is Cut!

Blane and Blane, Jr. finished cutting the last log Monday evening. Yeah! They are now cleaning up the mess. We will have plenty of fire wood for our hot dog roasts.

                                           Here is the good stuff.

We came up short on the timbers and had to order some more from a sawmill.  We didn't order enough logs, but now we know that we can only get 2 and sometimes 3 rafters or floor joist out of one log.

                                         These are some of our 12 ft.,  2 x 4's.

Now the job for Saturday will be to make some more of the solution that we treated the logs with and treat all the lumber.

Then we wait for the logs to be graded so that we know which logs can be used as support logs and which ones will have to be wall logs. After the grading, we can start putting the walls up, then it will start looking like a real house.

                                           Happy Days!