Glad to finally be off scaffold, roof

Front of the cabin needs the deck to reach the door

 

Double-decker scaffold, homemade sheeting lifter at center

Kitchen-diningroom-livingroom at front, bedrooms, bathrooms to rear

All our buildings: main cabin, shed, dockhouse

Scene from hill behind main cabin

After rough start, a beautiful summer

Early evening shows a crescent moon and the lights of camp

 The summer started out with record high water. If you remember, lots of the highways were flooded and we had to find detours to reach Red Lake.

Then as the summer progressed there was at least one rainfall just about every day, sometimes a deluge. But there were also lots of sunny periods and the weather was very warm. In fact, our weather station at the cabin recorded a high of 52.8 C or 127 F. I don't know the date for that as I didn't set it up when I activated the station this spring. That was the temperature in the sun. Had it been in the shade it would have been a Canadian record.

It figures that once I had the roof put on our cabin, about mid-August, it barely rained again. 

By the time we pulled out in mid-October, the lake was nearly record low. That was caused not only from the lack of rain but also because the water control dam at Snowshoe Dam was wide open so repairs could be made to it. Those repairs were finished and the logs replaced just as we left.

Out of the bush; cabin exterior done

Main cabin is at left in this scene as we towed our dock over to the camp for the winter

We've been home for a few days now. We succeeded in completely finishing the exterior of our cabin -- steel siding, aluminum fascia and all. The interior is left to do next year. At least it will be out-of-the rain work. 

There is no cell phone reception at our cabin which explains our lack of posts this summer. However, I have discovered one spot about 200 feet behind the place that gets a bit of signal. We will work over the winter to see if we can get a system that will bring that down to the cabin. Meanwhile, I can resume blogging this winter from our home in Nolalu.