Hey , hot and sticky today ! I managed to get gravel and building materials for the cabin today and get a start on it .

 

 

Day 2 : Today went well except for the pouring rain that came down forcing the hiding of billions of dollars worth of tools . I stopped for 2 hrs until the rain past and then set all the rafters by hand . It feels better to set them without the air nailer . There is nothing like the feeling of a nail going home . So tomorrow I hope to have a lid on it if the dormer cooperates . I have to dig my framing brain out for this one . My kids are getting excited over her and are already making rules for its membership. I watched as their joy slid from their little faces when I told them they probably not sleeping in it this weekend . I will stain it and it will have to stop offgassing before they set foot in it . On a funny note I noticed something about the steel door I bought . It was a fresh install that went bad for the government and somebody hung it with the hinge pins on the same side as the key lock .....

Hey I finished the Shanty and then threw a 1000 sq.ft lid on a shop . This puts me over the top as far as cabin money goes . I am going to start tomorrow with the base and hopefully get the walls up . Now I will be working at home so the pace will be slower . It should be faster being closer to any tool I could ever use but it never works out that way. Maybe build it offsite and then truck it in ?.....I have windows and a door for it and in tomorrow's early light I have to go and get gravel . A good friend whom I share tools with stole my trailer and is going to the cottage for a month . I asked if he would take me with him but he flat out refused  . He said something about me always talking him to very large and expensive renovations . Well I have never .....  well maybe once or twice . He does appreciate my build it too big and fat thing though.

 

So tomorrow my kids win . I haven't really made anything for them before and I have always wanted to . I made them cars with engines when they were smaller but never anything like this . Most Dads would take a summer to build something like this and I plan to have her done in four days . Now I am not slapping it together it is just that I have been at it for a thousand years or so . We will have to see what tomorrow light brings ....

Hey , my day started at 5:30 am and I just got home at 10 pm . But what did I do all day ? Well I started with a hole in a garden and now there is a building with framed walls and shingled roof. A fat little 5x8 Shanty sits in amongst the plants and under a crabapple tree . Tomorrow I will get pine and side her and then that is all I have to do on this one . The owner wants to finish it himself ( stain and doors ) . So then it is cabin building time here at the weirdo ranch and my plans have changed everyday on this so who knows what it will be when I am done . She will be retarded fat and strong ..... thats all I have down so far .

 

Hey kids, unproductive day today and it ended badly . High maintenence friends who couldn't organize a piss up at a brewery were running the show as far as materials pickup went . After pissing away half the day I went and did it myself so I would have material for the long weekend . I finally got set up in the driveway to do some serious woodwork , mapped out the building with my framing square , cut some studs and then just as I started nailing ......

My only son jumped from the side door and landed inches from my head and I moved the framing gun just a hair . Bang !!! , ow , ow , ow . I looked down at my hand to see that I had just welded three fingers together . There was a 3 1/4 inch nail running through 3 fingers . At first it didn't fizz on me . I calmy put down the gun and disconnected the airline and looked again .... yep they were nailed together . Ok boy get in the house I said and then I got mad enough to pull the nail out . It hurt more coming out than going in but the neighbor was there to witness the carnage and I am pretty sure his viewing was free. I washed the hand under water and then wrapped it in papertowel so I could continue working . I managed to frame one wall and nail it together ( with the neighbors help ) before the pain got a little high even for me . So a bloody stump of a hand we cleaned up , put my baby (saw) downstairs and then I went to ER for a 3 hour wait . Sorry I didn't get any pictures of this event .

On a way happier note the first thing one can do when getting a sliding compound saw is to build a table for it . Well my baby is 7?? and I just put a fresh billion dollar blade on her so I made a new saw table and outriggers for her .

Hey , I have been rolling this cabin idea around in my head and it is ever evolving . I have made a few phonecalls and burned up a few favours . I would like to make this building portable so I can move it when I leave. My kids are getting crazy over this idea of a cabin in the yard and I am almost regretting telling them about it. I am having trouble deciding the roofline and window placement . I want it to have scalloped eaves or gingerbread work and the window will have shutters unless it is set in a dormer....

 

 It was supposed to be simple but then someone out west on a boat suggested a skylight and while out driving I considered a 5 or 7 sided building with a glass top . This wouldn't be any harder to build than a cottage or hip roof and would look cool when it was done. I also considered mounting it on posts and having a spire roofline with a lookout below.

 

She will have hydro and lights and will probably house sleepovers in the summer and hide my gardening tools in the winter . I have designed fold away bunk beds that are made from rough sawn pine . I will have the lumber dressed and then glue them together to make sheets of pine . I will have to find mattresses to fit or maybe buy them first and build from there...

 

I should have stuck with the A frame I envisioned in the first place .

I found that I have a talent that people want....Duh  Ok so I built another shed today . I had a friend come over today and he knocked over the old shed while I framed . Slung the walls up and done ! Fat , fat ,  fat she is and framed from 2x6  I don't think it will fall over soon . I will roof her tomorrow and then side it in pine .

 

 

 

 

 

Day 2 I put a lid on her in the pouring rain !! Yay ...actually it was fun because I truly miss the height and smell of roofing . Silly I know but true.

All done ! This building started off big guns and then stalled for three days before a final blast that had her finished . Sporting crank out windows , a steel door and encased in stolen pine (almost ) this is a fat building . I even wired it for hydro and lights . It feels good to be able to build again although my body won't allow this full time .

 

This is what I found this morning when looking for tools on my one bench . I noticed that something had been busy renovating one of my vases and there was a little sawdust beside the turning . This little insect had been borne from a worm and survived an initial soaking in polyurethane and then car clear urethane . He was emerging from a hole when I took this pic. I then squashed it like a bug , get it, like a bug ?  Oh I slay me ......