It's Been A While...

Well, I certainly thought we would be a whole lot further than we are by now...  But here we are the middle of Feb, still no foundation.

On a bright note we did finally find a camper to put on the lot during the build. So, now we have a boat and a camper, just no house... With any luck (hahaha) we'll have it at the property in the next couple of weeks, like everything else, weather permitting.

This is our mantle from the Cosby house, we call them Frick and Frack, they are old telephone poles. The new owners didn't want them, so we took them out and have decided to have 4 more carved to use on the front porch of the lake house. We'll use these guys somewhere else.

We stopped by to see the guy that is doing the carvings.  He had one almost done, but it was covered with snow, so no picture of that yet.  While we were there, he showed us some of his other projects and asked if we are in need of a mantle...  This is a piece of black walnut, absolutely!  This is in its raw state, it will be beautiful when it's done.

Last weekend we went to an auction, found these water skis.  Not that we ever intend to, but they will make great decorations.

As you can see, they were FILTHY!!

But, they both cleaned up great!

These are actually "trainers" if anyone is interested in learning...😀

Stu has been in the cabinet shop making things. This is the latest work in progress.  It will be a table that we'll put behind the couch, but will fold out so we can use it as a dinning room table. 

The old barn wood is just beautiful!

These are finished, they will go on the front of  the garage under the soffit.

I took these yesterday.  Both the house and garage are excavated and just waiting for the foundation. Rumor has it that will start next Tuesday, but again, there is rain in the forecast for all next week. Ugh...

This is taken from the garage that's the house in the front.

The house.

Taken from the front of the house, the Jeep is parked in front of where the garage will be. 

The water is still out, which is good, we still need to get our dock in position. 

Stay tuned and keep your fingers crossed for us that the stars align and we get a break in the weather next week.