Mud, Mud, Mud...

Drove down on Saturday morning and stopped at Lowe's to get some lumber to build a bedframe and a counter for the Kitchen. Made a quick and dirty bed-frame with 2x4s and some OSB seathing all held together with wood screws. I then made a counter to hold my sink. The parts for the sink cost less than 20 dollars and all the lumber for the counter and bed cost about 25 dollars.



It was great sleeping on this! The temperature only went down to 60 degrees so the sleeping bag was just used as a cover. The bed will eventually be moved up to the sleeping loft.




Made the sink a bit higher than normal. The sink is a 5 gallon bucket and it is pretty deep so making the counter higher will be easier on the back.




I like the lip on the sink. I will make a shelf over the sink to hold a 5 gallon tank to hold fresh water. The plumbing is just going to go through the wall and dump on the ground. I will be careful to only use biodegradable soap.




It may not look great, but it certainly is functional.




Messed up here...Forgot that the stove has a windscreen and it cuts the light coming through the window. I will either remove the the screen or extend the counter.

During the night, it rained like crazy! Sound was rather soothing, but the driveway area was covered in about an 1 and a half inches of mud. Really need to do a lot of grading since there was a large puddle right in front of the cabin and in places in the driveway. I really want to get the tractor and start grading. Thank goodness for the Land Rover. Did some general cleaning and moved some things around, but there is still too much trim lumber in the cabin. I think I will put a small picnic table where the bed is after I move it to the loft. May even come down next weekend on Friday night (depending on the weather) since it is becoming quite livable now...

Down for the Weekend...

My wife was attending a dog show and only left me with one dog, so I decided to go down to the cabin. She also took the Video camera, so no pictures
this week.

Took a leisurely drive down and hit a few geocaches along the way
(http://www.Geocaching.com ). Moxie (eldest dog) came along. The whole
way down I kept telling her we were on the way to the "Cabin" and she
would give me "tippy" heads. The whole way down the drive I kept
repeating the word cabin. She has been down a few times before, but
never spent the night. Now she definitely knows the word.

I didn't get too much done, but Moxie had the time of her life. So
many smells and places to explore. Set up the new Queen sized AeroBed
and also bought a new propane 2 burner stove. I brought a single
heater attachment that fits on a 20lb propane cylinder to provide
heat, but think I need the two burner unit. I was surprised at the
temperature in the cabin compared to the outside temp when we arrived.
It was easily 20 degree cooler in the cabin. There is no insulation
yet, but it is completely sealed. I hope the temperature will stay 20
degrees cooler that the outside temperature this summer!!

In the next few months, I will be getting a solar panel kit to provide
lighting. A friend who lives on a boat in the Baltimore inner harbor
showed me a website that makes some very impressive LED light for
marine applications. Their website is http://www.doctorled.com .

Dreamed up a potential way to collect rainwater after it has been
raining for a while. I will set up a Rube Goldberg divertion system
that will automatically divert the water to a cistern AFTER it has
rained a bit. This will allow the built up dirt on the roof to be flushed off
before sending it to the cistern. Should keep the stored water a bit
cleaner.

There is so much that I need to do to finish the cabin, but have the
entire summer to get it done... Plan to go down next weekend if the
weather in nice.