Now that the roof and deck are on, most of the work has been inside, which is harder to document. The stairs are in, as are all of the interior walls. Dad has been working on wiring, and has the basement finished. He also has all but one of the exterior doors and windows installed in the basement and first floor. There will be 5 more in the gazebo up top.
Mom has been spending hours and hours doing this:
She is sanding the interior of the logs so that they can stain the walls.
Meanwhile, we have finally finished putting up the fence around the garden. We started with 3 foot wide landscaping cloth, then pounded 7 foot T-posts in a foot every 10 feet. Then we attached 5 foot deer fencing, with 2 feet of chicken wire at the bottom. The chicken wire is stapled to the ground with garden staples every 18". Finally, the 8 foot terminal posts were pounded in 2 feet and the garden gate was installed. All very complex, but hopefully it will keep the critters big and small out of the garden, and we shouldn't have to weed-eat the weeds under/around the fencing. Our scarecrow, "Lazy Laura", is at work, standing around and watching the birds.
We have a lot of things planted now...tomatoes, peppers, squash, pumpkins, cucumbers, sweet corn, carrots, radishes, lettuce, spinach, beets, and turnips. I still need to get some jalapeno plants to put out, and some herbs. We will also plant a couple of more plantings of corn a week or two apart. There will be a bunch of the garden that is unused this year, so perhaps we can put some more flowers in there.
Those peas that we planted in the mud last week are popping up...progress of another kind!
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