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End of a Fine Week

November 17th, 2006 · No Comments

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Beer and Wooden NickelsIt has come to the end of a long and productive week. Although I usually relax with a cup of coffee, this evening I’ll be enjoying conversation with good friends around the tap at the bar here at the Lodge where an inviting and refreshing glass of ice cold beer awaits.

The past several days of fine tuning designs and drafting new blue prints late into the evening and meeting with contractors for an upcoming renovation project of rather massive scale has left me numb. Yet I sit in calm. Soothed by the knowledge that my client that has fallen in love with the designs and progress.

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Tags: Around the Lodge · Workbench

Log Home Repair & Restoration: A Workshop Where There Once Was None

September 5th, 2006 · No Comments

Log CellarI began attacking the second basement. It was one of those areas that got out of control. Well I’m taking control back. — l’ll use a portion of the room and put in a workshop of sorts.

Its a room of mostly log and stone walls 16′ by 57′. For years it has been general storage - mostly junk - not even stuff that I could put on Ebay. I did however save the wood. I’ll put that to good use.

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Tags: Log Home Chinking · Workbench