Getting Started

I've decided to put together a little blog about our cabin up north. Mostly, I just want to post pictures showing the progress of the project. I don't expect it to be witty, enlightening, entertaining, or helpful. In fact, it's probably not worthwhile to anyone in any way, so I may even be a little surprised if anyone follows it. With that stellar introduction, here is the first post.

There is a picture of the site before we started. There is also a picture of the progress after the first two weekends up there in May. We picked the spot and cleared the grass and topsoil. I also cleared the driveway and took down a few old aspens that appeared likely to fall toward the future cabin.

The past weekend we had a wedding to attend Friday night and ran a 10k on Saturday morning, but we still managed to make it up the land and get some work done. We had some fill brought in to level the site a little more. I also managed to drive a shallow well and put in a hand-pump. The well-driving got troublesome when the pipe broke in the fittings a couple times, but I eventually managed to get it down to the depth I needed with the threads in tact. There's a picture of the progress (you can see the well in the background). There's also a picture of me being completely delighted that the well was working.