Well, we survived Peak Log and Peak Sand and we laid up the last log in the outside wall on October 6. Whoooo!
The logs we just cut and put in the solar log-drying kiln were plenty dry after a month in there. We worked feverishly the last two weeks since we were having visitors come in on the 8th. While they were touring the house on Saturday we popped open a bottle of bubbly to celebrate the last outside log. My sister and brother-in-law protested, saying they had not done any work on the house. Madness, I say! You needn’t have lived another’s life for a year to celebrate their birthday, right? Luckily they relented and enjoyed a toast to Nerdwood, otherwise I would’ve been a bit tipsy on the way home.
While all this was going on, Matt has been working on framing the third level, including installing windows and housewrap, and flashing the bottom:
Our neighbor sawed up some cedar logs into one-inch thick planks with a natural edge. We dried them and are using them as siding on the third level. I think it looks pretty cool with the cordwood:
Now we can concentrate on the many many tasks necessary to get the house insulated and heated so we can continue working on it this winter.
We missed a mushroom in the Winecap Stropharia bed, and it grew enormous before we noticed it:
