Three Eagles and a Wolf

It will  be a short blog posting this week as I have worked all through the weekend and I am shattered. My main effort this week has been the wiring and every time I get close to thinking I've finished the rough in, I think of some more circuits that need to be put in. For example, outlets on all the main decks, lights outside and above the garage doors. The list goes on and on but, I really do think that the top floor is now finished. I have to put some overhead lights in the study and dining area, which will require similar preparatory work to the kitchen and I should probably put some in the bar area by the kitchen. In the basement I need to put in some lighting and run power out to the septic. I hope to get most all this done next week.

The wiring was interrupted this week by a small crisis in the basement. I damp patch appeared in one corner of the basement concrete caused by snow melt water coming off the roof and running under the deck and down into the earth adjacent to the basement walls. I therefore spent three days rectifying the problem. The immediate action was to put dustbins under where the water was coming off the roof to catch the water so I could then dispose of it. That stopped the damp and it dried up within a day. The permanent solution was to put guttering up to take the water away without having to use the dustbins. For this I had to first put up some fascia and fortunately we had a couple of really warm days with sunshine so I could stain the fascia boards before putting them in place.

It isn't officially spring yet but, we have had a timely whiff of it that allowed me to stain some fascia boards.

In place the fascia looks quite good and I can't wait to get the rest of the cabin done. 

The damp patch in the basement was in only one place but while I was at it I thought that I might as well to the other side as well.

The guttering went up very quickly and easily, after I got all the right materials and I am going to experiment with a chain as a down pipe for the water to run down, instead of a conventional down pipe.

I'll get some chain next week and let you know how it goes. It probably won't rain, it never does when you want it to.

I took the opportunity, while the sun was out, to dry some of the fascia planks that have been sitting frozen together inside the cabin.

This is just a small fraction of what needs doing.

On a lighter note I saw a wolf on Thursday and three eagles standing on the side of the road having an argument. They completely ignored me while I watched them and it was quietly satisfying to observe a dysfunctional family in the animal kingdom other than a human one.