The Work Farm

With fall fast approaching, we continue to work at the cabin and have made more progress!  We have no more Leinie Red buildings.  We have worked the last few weeks on cleaning, scraping, repairing (some), prepping and painting the shed and the sauna and finally finished them up.  Now everything matches.  I also did some work under the cabin and Dave did a ton (more) of brush clearing.  We have also burned almost all of the rotten wood that was left behind by the last owners (and perhaps the owners before that!).

These look better from this distance than up really close!  I do want to do some Googling to see if we can try to fire up the sauna one of these cooler fall days.  What you may not notice here is that we removed the old wood well house/shack that was in front of the sauna and next to the shed.  We used some of that wood to make repairs on the other two buildings. 

Yes, these two pictures are basically the same.  You can see a bit of the porch here and get a sense for what the place looks like from the water.  We took down the Leinie's sign.  We have probably thrown off many a boater's navigational habits now.  We are still negotiating a location for the sign.  It is in remarkably good shape, considering!  You cannot see it very well here, but we also repurposed the coppola from the roof as a little mini-me house for the well!  Next year we will do a little landscaping around it.  Dave has planted and coaxed grass over most of what was dug up to put the well in.  It is coming along.  The water is low right now.  You can see the sandy beach.

We do not have a lot of projects that we feel we must do yet this fall.  The big one is that we'd like to get the porch screened in and stain the new deck.  We will see how that goes.  We also have some work to do under the cabin to insulate/winterize the plumbing.  And, of course, we will have to figure out what to do with the pontoon and the dock over the winter.  That isn't a big deal. 

Next year we'll probably put a garage up on the upper yard.  It is all coming together!

We get a week off Labor Day weekend.  We are heading to San Francisco to see Mere and relax!  I have business at Visa on Thursday and am really looking forward to seeing Mere's office while I am there!  Dave is flying out on Thursday night and we will hang out, head down to Big Sur with Mere and Tad, and I am going to find a way to treat Dave to a really nice meal somewhere along the way!

Kansas City is next...  Have fun all of you heading down this weekend!  We hope to go down there in late September or October!