It took about a week to prepare the ground for the forming up to pour the concrete, we had to have dirt hauled in, spread it...By hand I might add, pack it, then build forms for concrete, dig for plumbing, ad the plumbing, and then finally pour. Now it has to set, so we wait....Then Randy gets called to a job in VA...We wait longer...Finally he gets back in March...We all march off to the woods....Takes us a week to find and mark 120 trees the right size and length, we used pine and popular trees. The pictures here show Randy doing the cutting even tho Aaron did do some of the cutting, but everyone else helped with everything that needed to be done. We at times had to pull by hand the logs out of the woods because the tractor nor truck could reach them even tho we had 4 chains! It took us about 2 months to fine all the trees we marked and cut them and drag them to the spot in the woods we cleared to peel and dry the logs. Even tho this task was hard and very hot and tiring at times...WE kept on....

We used the tractor to move logs from one place to another, loaded them on the homemade racks we made to peel them. In these pics Randy and boys peeling logs. Peeling is when you take the bark and onion skin layer off of them. Lower pics Aaron taken break after lunch, and all of us eating in last pic. We would go out at day break and work till lunch, cook lunch on smoker in woods then back to work till dark.

This will be a blog of the beginning to the end of Our Cabin On The Hill.This entire project is being done my family and I, with little help from the outside world. Determined to try our hand at building a Cabin, like the pioneers did.We struggled daily to complete this, fighting the weather,injuries, bugs who bite us,bugs who eat wood to blood sweat and tears. This is our story, started January 3,2003.

Enjoy,

all comments and advice are welcome.

Here is a pic of the ground breaking,then plumbing being put in forms, then formed up ready to pour.And finally we have concrete!

We would like to thank Justin Davis for all his help!