Speaking of the cabin, here is our most recent floor plan. (Deb, our friendly sales rep at the log home company, told me it was a lovely floor plan -- Mick does a great job!)
Here are some exterior pictures of our cabin kit.
When we're not working on the plans for our cabin, we're generally getting stuff down around the trailer. Mick has done lots of brewing, cider and 3 batches of beer so far, with some more beer on the way!
It is great to have so much stored up, and he is hoping to be able to get supply ahead of demand so there is more time for aging (for the alcohol to age, that is, not the brewer).
We had a cool spell not too long ago. I couldn't believe what Mick was wearing on his feet one morning!
He made a ton of bread, 12 loaves in a day I think.
Boy, is it delicious! How lovely to be able to have such wonderful home-baked bread. I try and do my part to make sure the inventory doesn't go stale.
We have also been harvesting a fair number of vegetables.
Beans have definitely been our most prolific crop. We have frozen and canned many! Actually, Mick figured we have preserved more vegetables already this summer than we ate all last winter. So there are many more vitamins in our future, huzzah! This picture shows canned beans waiting to be transported to the pantry, freshly picked cucumbers (still in their picking basket) waiting to become pickles or relish, and one of our freshly purchased oversized heads of cabbage waiting to become sauerkraut.
My success story of the day was finally winning my long struggle with the sewing machine! I have been trying to patch Mick's jeans since last summer I think, and I finally was able to finish the patches for this particular pair of jeans (the large patch at the bottom left of the picture was the last patch -- you may notice less masses of thread and general disaster areas on this patch than on the other ones). Definitely not a pretty job! but a huge success for me to get through the whole patch without breaking a needle, jamming the machine in some other inexplicable fashion, etc. Don't place your orders yet for homemade clothing (my poor gracious husband has turned out to be my sewing guinea pig), but we are moving in a good direction at last, HUZZAH!!
Autumn is beginning here, which is absolutely incredible. Many trees (at least many compared to what I would expect in the first week of September) are already changing color and dropping their leaves. I came home from work yesterday and Mick had picked up a little bit of fall for us.
And in the meantime, we rest easy knowing that someone is watching over us.
Hello! Thanks posting your house plans, I can't wait to talk to you guys. The sewing repairs looked great, it is not easy to maneuver and sew halfway down a tube of fabric :-). C-Ya.
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