New Photos August 3, 2011

Progress! A sturdy new screen porch door custom made by Brad K.; it's a beauty and a marvel--now we can sleep outdoors all night long.

The cabin is getting some earth-shaping to soften it around the edges. It sits on a stone ledge, so topsoil and river stones are being brought in. We'll plant native meadow seed and wildflower mix and let the grass and ferns grow mostly wild.

A cedar indoor shower; we have HOT WATER SHOWERS NOW, thank you Brad K and Colin!!!!!!


We have cosy furniture inside the house now, too, but I don't have photos because my i-phone was run over by a car (many times) near the dairy farm in West Glover and I lost alot of pics...truly. --S.

Sappho had her big event--a parathyroid operation--and is now back to swimming and fetching sticks like a crazed fanatical drooling varmint.

June 20, 2011 Photos

Some new photos from past weekend. Carpenter Brad K. did this cleverly integrated new work including doors, table, screened porch knee-wall and water collection system. Maybe it will all be finished by late July (?)...but is it ever finished? And the final details are worth the wait. Spent the weekend barbecuing and hauling out brush and wood debris, making paths through the woods; put up the old tent, and waxed the canoe.



New doors and amazing table with built-in benches



Screened porch almost finished; close-up of gutters to water collection system



Solar power panels and propane tank / battery / generator shed



Solar battery array / water collection tank / water pressure tank / on-demand water heater

The old tent is back up; gonna put a real bed in there for swooning



Print of Vermont-like logging industry, see timeline



Wild orchids called Pink Lady's Slipper outside cabin, see more



Crazy abundance of lichens and mosses cover everything



Porch and pooch

nesting vid

After living in a tent on this same spot for five years, this is a major change

The Landing

thrift store painting modified with Katamari space ball and astronauts

April 9th 2011

We spent our first real weekend of 2011 in the cabin and it is coming together beautifully. We are very thankful to Keone, Keith, Will, Colin and our neighbors who helped make it happen. It has been a year since construction began, but worth the wait. The kitchen counters and windows are in, and the finished exterior doors are coming soon. The snow is just starting to melt and mud season has begun... We spent last weekend trimming the windows and settling in, but work will continue for a month or two... The porch will be screened-in by the time the May flies come!

How to get there...

REFRIGERATION with Solar Power

The whole camp runs on SOLAR POWER (with a large battery system and propane generator back-up) that means no standard refrigerator. "Sunfrost" refrigerators use 1/5 the power--they have about 4 inches of insulation and run with no fans. See Sunfrost Refrigeratators at http://www.sunfrost.com/


This fridge is custom built by clever elves in Arcata, California... just ordered one today.