Appliances

We picked up the appliances from Boyer Barge. A chick named Rainbow runs the forklift there she's cool. When appliances arrive that means things are pretty close to moving in. Hurrah!! Jon drove through camp with a refrigerator in the back of the truck and rounded up Ken, Bear, Kit, Dusty, and Ron to help lift the washer and dryer up on to the loft. Then that night we moved it at least four times and we're still no sure where it will go. I think they just look so new, modern and weird that it is going to take some getting used to. We still need plumbing and a bathroom sink. But first we need more firewood, so that is what we are doing today.





Anyway the tile seems to be curing allright.

No Cabinets, Shelves

I love the new shelves. We beach combed the wood and it has some beautiful worm holes along the edge. All of the wood we used here was part our scaffolding during construction.

Jon used some of the left over bamboo to make a counter. That was his first attempt at bending cedar. Very nice. This will be next to the refrigerator. We picked it up from the barge today. He's down there wrestling with it now while I blog :)
Red cedar on the bottom shelf. That brad nailer is his new favorite tool. It uses an air compresser that runs off the generator.
He custom bent each nail to hang the mugs. They are a priority and must be within easy reach. Mom if you are reading this those are the ones you gave us. Martha yes that is the mixer! Amy the canisters go on the counter. Dad those are the lanterns from the barn.

Kicking the carpet and the Annual Beer Hunt

Sunday was another big day. After we did all that cement work on Saturday, we made it to the annual beer hunt. Every year, Danny and Jackie hide lots of beer cans along their boardwalk. They live across the bay so you have to take a boat out there. Or snowmachine. Before we even got to the harbor we hear that Ron had ridden his sled from the harbor to the party but it sank before he could get to land. His wife is going to kill him if doesn't die from hypothermia. On our way back from the beer hunt we notice that the dock is broken in half. Ron must have driven the boom truck down there to get his snowmachine out of Randy's skiff and split the boards and broke the hard wear. Serious damage in one night. I'll be harbor master tomorrow I think. Anyway Jon's dad Bill and Donna came over that night but didn't come to the hunt because they saw Ron on the sled and figured they weren't ready for the festivities, so we stopped by and woke them up after the beer hunt. Then we kept walking and stopped by Becky's late night, to borrow some sunglasses. The next day we were lucky to get anything done. Ron came down and kicked in the carpet in the bedroom. Jon and I got the bathroom ready for tile.

Oh yeah I have to refinish the sink. The list keeps getting longer.

This is how the counter came out so far

I love them. It was weird though. We have been planning them so long that when they were in place it just seemed like nothing new. I think we have 18 feet of counter space to work with. The sink is nice, we beach combed it. We bid on a faucet on Ebay since it is a wall mount, its a little hard to find. Hopefully we will win. The center section is big enough to sling a deer up there and piece it up.
We have one more counter to build next to the fridge. Jonathan is going to make it out of the left over bamboo. We ordered our appliances too. That was super scary but I think we did really well. Still I am loosing sleep over it. We have an old fridge and stove but realize with the waterwheel and generator set up they will never have enough power to work. So we ordered a super efficient refrigerator and washer and dryer. We also ordered a propane stove, so we will have to bring in a tank for the propane. Hopefully the supply for this fuel will be available for some time. Gas and diesel supply was spotty this winter. We always have the wood stove though ;) Jon's Mom had to do her laundry by hand on the floathouse when they grew up. Another lady told me how she had just the spot in a river with perfect rocks for doing laundry. All this was just 20 years ago. I don't even want to go there.

He'll never be house broken.

Ok, so we have this beautiful new bamboo floor. Dave and Jonathan and I worked on the floor for hours two weekends ago. The counters had to go in after the floors, I wanted to be careful of this strange store bought floor.So Dave and I chased Jonathan around with a shop vac until we realised we couldn't keep up with him when the chainsaw came out again. I guess this is how plumbers install sinks? Oh yeah and dormers. Oh yeah and the framing. Oh don't forget the ceiling, waterwheel and pantry. Chainsaws for all your building needs.
We have been saving this piece of hemlock for the counter forever. It has been moved and shuffled around so many times. It was the second piece of building material drug down here on the four wheeler, after the center pole for the house. Dave cut the left over from the center pole piece into legs to support the counters. We aren't having cabinets because Jonathan can't see into them and because we have a nice big pantry for storage. So it will be open under the counters. Big Jon from Colorado is building us some custom benches for one side of the bar.

Dream Pantry

These are the designs I drew for the pantry. The neighbors gave me a hard time for measuring the bisquick boxes, dog food bins, crab cooker and some of the cool appliances and canisters we got for our wedding. But hey, they will all have their own spot. I didn't get any pictures of the finished product before we moved the tools in there to put the floor down.


This is what it looks like right now. Please excuse the mess while we are under construction. Yeah right. The light is one from the cottage that was being leveled on Damon's Point that we ransacked for parts. Those green boxes are left over bamboo flooring. The sacks of cement are waiting for me to do the entry way floor this weekend. I like how he used beachlogs for the supports. They look like they go right through the shelves.





The right side wall is covered with shelves just for jars and cans. We jar food alot in the summer and also buy canned goods during case lot sales they have up here in the fall. Hopefully this way we will be able to see what we have so we don't buy twice.
The fuse box is very deceptive as our electrical system is super complicated. Sometimes we are on the generator, sometimes we are on the waterwheel. Sometimes the power goes out when too many power tools are runnning, so you don't really just flip the switch when we blow a fuse. I doubt that this will ever be easy.

A new pantry

Jonathan made me a super super pantry. Lots of shelves for big things. A couple of potato and onion bins and big bins for the animal food. The whole right wall is shelving for cans, I even measured the cans so they would fit. There is alot of room for turning around. Originally we were going to stick the washer/dryer in there but we have a different spot now. So now we have the back wall to fill up too. Very good when we only shop about every four to six weeks and do alot of canning in the summer. I should be able to start putting stuff in there any day now.