August 2009

Here's our little friend that loved to clean up the spilled

birdseed on the deck. He loved us until Preston & Bryson

came up with the idea to TRAP & TERRIFY HIM!!!!

Here is one of the "EVIL-MINDED" & "CRUEL" squirrel-catchers!

As you can see, a styrofoam ice chest was used as the trap.

Once they caught the little-guy, he chewed a hole right through

the side of the chest to escape. GO-SQUIRREL!!!! ha!

Bryson and Preston told me that after he had nibbled a hole

through the styrofoam, they picked up a small piece of it to

shove back through the hole, but when they did, the squirrel

grabbed at it and yanked it out of their hands . . I think it scared

the crap out of them!! ha . . . GO-SQUIRREL!!!!

After a long wait and lots of phone calls, the furniture for

the cabins arrived from China in late July. It came in a 40 foot

container. It took 6 of us 2.5 hours to unload it. Thank

goodness I had lots of good helpers!!

We stacked the furniture on wood pallets. Here's

Bryson & Preston "man-handling" a box!

Shelise & Ploy made the furniture look light . . . . just

look at the muscles on these girls!!!

I spent most of the 2.5 hours just supervising!

Our kitchen table for the main cabin.

One of several jewelry chests.

Check out the lamp-shade on this baby!

Pretty Cool !!!

It's made of bark and the base is

made from Date Wood.

One of the Queen footboards.

Dresser & Mirror.

I had them make the drawers quite deep,

this way the visitors can just "dump" the contents

of their suitcase right into the drawer!!

Preston!!!! Catching ANOTHER SQUIRREL!!!

Oops . . . my error.

Here's the well-house almost completed.

Watch for a finished shot later . . .

Don't know what the name of this

wild-looking flower is . . .but they're

some of Mom's many. . . .

This is the flower on your broad-leafed plant

in the front love . . .

A few days ago we rented a ditch-witch to trench

for the electrical cables (3) that we laid. We trenched

about 500 feet. Here's Craig . . . showing the ditch witch

who is BOSS!!

Once the trench was dug it was time to lay

3 strands of electrical wire in (1-1-1 size). This is

very big wire!

Each of these spools of wire (1,000 feet per spool),

weighed 500lbs. We had Brown's Electric lift them onto

our homemade "WIRE-TRUCK" so that we could

roll out the wire. Our idea worked great! The two pieces

of 7 foot long pipe you see holding the wire spools cost $80!

I spent $1,500 per roll of wire! It was an expensive day!!

(Brown's price on the wire was HALF the price they

wanted at Home Depot . . paid to shop around)

Here's one of our "wire-laying-fools"!! Herman

layed and covered a good portion of the wire while

Craig and I operated the ditch-witch. It took two of us

to make the turns and help the machine along through the

wet and muddy parts. We were glad when this

job was over!!

Herman (more commonly referred to as "studdly")

working his magic!
Herman amazes me . . . if I'm in half the shape he is at his

age today . . . I'll be a happy camper!

Awwww . . . . . the finished product!!

Craig did an EXCEPTIONAL JOB on the painting. All 3 of us

worked on the siding and roofing of this shack!

Actually . . . this well house looks nicer than a lot of

folks' homes!!

Well guys . . . do the insides of the cabins look a

tad bit different now??? ha!

Shelise . . here's where your "sweat shop" was. You

stained all those siding pieces right in front of

this refrigerator!!

Mom did an AWESOME job on picking the carpet,

linoleum and wall colors. Everything matches perfect!

Today, Saturday, August 29th, 2009, we moved furniture

into cabins #2 & #3. I have decided that Chinese

definitely DO NOT know how to make a comfortable

couch or living room chair! They should have either slanted

the backs of everything or made the cushion to slant.

We'll have to fix that! The furniture looks great!

Living room set in Cabin #3

Kitchen & Table in Cabin #3

The table in this photo weighed almost

as much as a piano!!! It dang near killed Craig and I!!

Big bedroom in Cabin #3

The furniture is bigger than I anticipated, so we

will have to arrange the rooms a little differently than I

had invisioned. We'll only be able to accomodate 7 fishermen

in cabin #3 instead of the 8 I had hoped for.

Don't worry . . . the bunkbed you see only has ONE

ladder . . . the extra is from the bed behind me in this photo.

A photo looking out from the big bedroom.

Here's Herman hard at work in cabin #2 (please notice the

socked feet - no shoes inside!! ha.). Actually,

we had just finished furnishing this one and it was about

quitting time.

Kitchen and Table in Cabin #2

Check out the "Mountain" of cardboard in front

of Cabin #3!! We'll have about 4 pickup loads of cardboard

to take to the dump.

Devyn . . . we all definitely like cabin #3 the best.

It's much more "roomy" than the others. Both styles are

nice . . but I like the bigger one better.

We're halibut fishing tomorrow and then we'll have only 3 working days

to finish . . . wish I had more time, but I'm ready

to come home . . . miss you all . . . Dad.