Howell Cabin

  Saturday Jon went to the cabin to prep more. Offloaded half the tile. Did a dump run to clear cabinet boxes out of storage. I finished up the big slab. I made a jig to drop the post bases into the columns exactly in the right place. Sunday I made a jig for the other columns. I made another little slab for the other side of the entry. I tidied up inside, including making a countertop to move tools onto. Not many unfinished surfaces left! Wednesday The concrete truck arrives today! We only need about a yard, but the choices were mixing sixty bags ourselves, driving to Yakima for a 3/4 yard rental trailer, or paying for the three yard minimum from the truck. While we waited, Siggy and I got started on a temporary gate support to replace the previous temporary gate post that's falling over. Truck's here! Let's fill these slabs. And these columns. Well we have a lot of leftover concrete in this wheelbarrow. Dad can I make my own form? Everything cooking. We finished up the gat...

Siggy and I made a trip to the cabin Sunday to ready forms for the concrete delivery. At the end of the day we returned the extra tubes to the store.  

  Friday I woke the trailer back up (inflated the tires, patched up a flaky wire in the lighting system, fixed up the railings). I filled the truck bed up with trash. I got out the driveway and realized I was also supposed to take the personnel lift to storage in Yakima, so I zipped back down the driveway and tipped it onto the trailer and strapped it down. I did my dump run and fueled up in Cle Elum, then drove to Yakima, where Rick helped me load the cabinets, then drove back to the cabin. The trailer was full . I swept and vacuumed and taped down some floor protection. I had repaired the dehumidifier at home, so I got it put back in the crawlspace. Saturday Jeff showed up bright and early and we humped most of the boxes into the house.   His first comment was "let's see how much of a battle we'll have with these floors." He set his level down and it showed 0.0. Nice work, Eliot! We got the kitchen, which was about half the boxes, almost entirely installed on Satu...