tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30228165764362022772024-03-13T19:54:07.650-04:00At Home In LogsNorthern New York family builds log home from scratch ... and learns to live in the woods after escaping suburbia. We blog about Northern Adirondack living, logs, rural family life, logs, building our log house on a lake near the Adirondacks, logs and log cabins. And logs. Did I mention logs?Annehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05020729746066639415noreply@blogger.comBlogger411125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3022816576436202277.post-30669693206098420612017-08-29T20:23:00.000-04:002017-08-29T20:23:47.462-04:00Stain!My beautiful raw, lovely, virgin logs are all growed up! They have a pretty new brown stain. <div>
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I will go on record as admitting that I was wrong. I did not want to stain the logs. Yes, I understand that they need some protection from the elements. Yes, I understand that they were weathering gray. THEY ARE MY PRECIOUS BABY LOGS! Leave 'em alone, I said. </div>
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The Hubs didn't listen. But, he was right.</div>
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We are using a semi-transparent stain and the unique character of each log is still very apparent. The color is a gorgeous light chocolate. I was wrong. It is BEAUTIFUL!</div>
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The darker logs now show off the light stones of the chimney even better!</div>
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Some landscaping, cleats and bumper and we're done! This has been a two-summer project, and I'm ecstatic! (And I'm sure folks launching pontoon boats are just as happy about that wide boat launch...)<br />
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Wanna come visit and sit a spell on my NEW DOCK? You know you wanna. <br />
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And, frankly? If you're looking for me I'll be down there anyway, so you don't have much of a choice. I'm never leaving this beauty.<br />
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<br />Annehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05020729746066639415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3022816576436202277.post-54240799722403589952016-07-29T18:10:00.000-04:002016-07-29T18:10:05.770-04:00GardenlandSo, my parents are gadding about in Pennsylvania for a week and left me in charge of the back 40. Or, however big their enormous garden is.<br />
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So, I have been dutifully watering and picking and picking and picking and picking and picking.... <br />
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Fun fact: before this summer, my parents' raspberry plants never produced more than a cup. Now, they yield like 4 quarts per week! </div>
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Like work on The Log House, lakefront work happens in widely spaced fits and starts. This week has been a huge leap forward, however!<br />
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The wall pictured above will be between the utility area and The Boy's bedroom. Miiiight have to move the saw and lumber at some point.<br />
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<br />Annehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05020729746066639415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3022816576436202277.post-32141318611855297542016-07-07T22:51:00.001-04:002016-07-07T22:51:42.161-04:00KetchupI'm still here! Promise!<br />
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I realize that I never showed off the completed main staircase -- she still had a hockey smile when I last posted. Well, she is mighty perty now. See?<br />
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Besides the stairs (which have been completed for months now), we've had a few new house-build developments, but they aren't as photogenic as those shiny new stairs. The Bob relocated a copper water pipe that he'd inadvertently put in the way of a future wall in the basement, added an external faucet (he calls it a hydrant; whatever) for watering our nonexistent lawn or flowers, and he reinforced a support beam that had decided to twist a tiny bit. Tots importante, but not photo-worthy, really. Those basement bedrooms are on the horizon. I can feel it. And you can bet I'll photograph the flyin' heck out of that process. It'll be just like the old days. <br />
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But mostly just sitting in front of the fire. It is sublime. If I had to pick a favorite part of this logaliciousness, it quite possibly would be that fireplace. <br />
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You should come over and hang out with me in front of the fire. It's super fun. As long as you don't need me to pay attention to you. And you don't mind my snoring. . <br />
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Bob was trying out the durability of the construction adhesive on one stair tread/riser combination before he did the whole flight of stairs. But it's the most pertyist step you ever did see!<br />
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It's a beautiful day here in the North Country! Blue sky, colorful leaves, warm breezes... it's our last hurrah before the cold blows in and settles down for 5 months. But today... we are in heaven.</div>
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So last winter, after we moved into The Log House in December, the Hubs had to use the rickety temporary construction steps out the back door to feed the boiler. In advance of the heating season this year, the menfolk decided to build a nice new sturdy set of steps. I was expecting just simple little stairs, but I returned from work to this:<br />
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Now I can grill on the deck like a real 'Merican and not in the woodshed. And the Hubs won't fall to his death in a snowbank this winter. <br />
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Which would put a real damper in my plans for a new back door. Heh.Annehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05020729746066639415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3022816576436202277.post-37684141698848174152015-09-28T18:56:00.000-04:002015-09-28T18:56:01.599-04:00Hang your hatThat arctic entry is almost ready for prime time! And even this manual labor-phobic blogger has been pitching in. I helped shellac the vertical wall boards and sanded and shellacked and polyurethaned the horizontal cherry boards that the coat hooks will be mounted on! Yes, I did! I can prove it:<br />
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Since it's summer, and that means hosting many friends and family, not much work on The House gets done, but it's an embarrassment of riches of a kind, so we aren't upset! We do, however, get the largess of my father's garden. Which is getting largess-ter each year. <br />
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With the great blessing of living in the woods all hermit-style comes the trial of limited internet access. *sigh* SUCH a first-world problem, eh? So, that has made my blogging even more haphazard. And we all know it was straight-up iffy at the best of times. <br />
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Heh. You know I'm only half joking. Annehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05020729746066639415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3022816576436202277.post-55119868685765024472015-05-12T17:46:00.000-04:002015-05-12T17:46:03.065-04:00It's May Already?May? It's approaching the middle of MAY? Seems like just yesterday we moved into The Log House, but it's been 4 1/2 months already. And yet, I'm still as goofy happy about it as ever. <br />
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We waited until both sets of parents could be present for the first fire, since they have been such a big part of the building of this house. So, since Bob's folks FINALLY returned home from that wicked parent-stealing Florida last week, we all gathered 'round on Easter Sunday to ceremonially light the lights, so to speak. <br />
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Hey - I know it's not the most exciting thing on earth, but *I'm* excited about the doorknob. And, frankly, if you'd come to use the bathroom before the doorknob, etc was installed, you would be a little happy about it too. <br />
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Thanks to a little push and help from our friends Bert and Lisa and my mother, we moved the big stuff out to the new house the weekend before Christmas. Despite our herculean effort, though, we left quite a bit of detritus littered about the old house which we are *ahem* <em>still</em> boxing up in drips and drabs. Yes, I know. UGH. </div>
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My Pennsylvanian sister Ells arrived a few days before Christmas and helped us decorate. The new house. For CHRISTMAS. It. was. wonderful. You have not seen a happier girl than this girl right here. On Christmas day, we hosted my whole family for gifting and eating and more happiness. The only thing that could have made our full hearts even closer to bursting is if Bob's parents hadn't abandoned us and the cold northern winter for the alligator-infested warmth of Florida -- <em>er, I mean,</em> if Bob's family had also been present. We can't wait for them to return and for all the cousins to experience the joy of log-a-riffic living this summer. </div>
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This is the slowest, most painful moving process I've ever done! And I've moved 11 times. We have most (half? a lot) of our stuff out at Its Royal Logness, but we're still eating and sleeping at the house in town. As we approach Christmas, I am singing a constant refrain:<br />
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We are both furiously, frustratingly packing and moving boxes, as well as finishing up details that need to be done before we can finally move in! You know - sexy stuff, like outlet covers, CO detectors, and stair railings. <br />
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Too much left to pack. Too much left to clean. Too much left to build/finish/paint.</div>
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I spent HOURS just vacuuming the first floor log walls and the rest of the dining room and kitchen ceilings and cleaning windows of accumulated grime and adhesive from those manufacturer stickers that we just never took off before.</div>
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Bob and his father built a temporary railing on the balcony. Eventually it will be made of log and bent twig, but for now, it'll keep me from falling off the edge. Temporary, but sturdy. </div>
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<li>move all the construction materials to the basement or to the shop</li>
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<li>let's not even talk about the master bathroom</li>
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There's the real problem: I am impatient. I want to live in my hand-crafted, lovely, perfect, beautiful log home NOW and I don't want to have to vacuum more sawdust to do it. What an ungrateful whiner I am. But, there you have it. Warts and all. </div>
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My role today was twofold: clean the construction materials out of the first floor (and vacuum up the piles of sawdust and dead bugs and cobwebs) and be a dead weight. </div>
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I'm really good at holding the floor down. </div>
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We're making progress!! </div>
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