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logical /local/ low impact/ low cost lots of uses /loveable / long-lastingUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger113125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4576632922731219768.post-37461283856730276772015-06-24T11:41:00.002-07:002015-06-24T11:46:27.135-07:002014: The movieMy apologies to all for the terrible blogging this last little while. To be honest, we were too busy having fun in our almost-finished/always-in-progress cabin. To try and play catch-up I put all of our pictures in one slideshow to summarize what was another amazing and productive year.<br />
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Loading the counter onto the boat</div>
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There was also good food and swimming but I forgot to take pictures of those! Many many thanks to Nessa, John Sean and Bill for their hard work!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4576632922731219768.post-48680540745880533702014-07-29T10:16:00.001-07:002014-07-29T10:16:09.955-07:00July 19 - 20<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Our friends Kevin & Anie and their kids came from Quebec for a busy weekend of hard work, great swimming and a large fish!</div>
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drinking Kristen's yummy cocktails </div>
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we got a heck of a lot of work done.</div>
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Tiling! Ikea cabinets assembled! Electrical! Plumbing!</div>
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Thank you ladies for a super weekend!</div>
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Just wanted to update you on our progress. We are trying to get as much done as possible before August 30th when we will have a party to celebrate the cabin completion and our 15th anniversary.</div>
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So we have 8 weekends to get the cabin completed - or as close as we can. If you are interested in helping we will be going over every weekend and it is quite a delightful time of year to spend there with swimming, disk golf, gardening and of course cabin building.</div>
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-Electrical: rough in wire, panel and boxes. Cable to power tower. install outlets and switches.</div>
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-Plumbing: install upstairs sink and toilet</div>
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-Kitchen: design, purchase and install cabinets and counter-tops</div>
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Such a great mix of fun and progress as we begin the finishing work on the cabin. Indoor cooking! Plumbing! Hot water! It's all kind of amazing.<br />
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Kevin questions his decision to combine Cards Against Humanity and Drinko the night before</div>
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The past two weekends have been all about getting ready to do some interior work. Now that all the siding has been done, it' time to get in some of the elements of the interior. First step, the stairs!</div>
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Maddy preps the drywall after the very first insulation is put in.<br />
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All the straight stairs are in! Now to install the curved stairs at the top and the bottom.</div>
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I recently found this piece of paper lying around the cabin. It's a record I made of a milling session when Kevin was cutting the logs into posts. This documents the amount of time (2 hours) it took to mill 3/4's of one post for the foundation.</div>
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Here are some more photos from that fun but exhausting time when we were milling and building the foundation.</div>
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This is Kevin taking a shadow selfy and enjoying a Thanskgivng sunrise. We had so much to be thankful for this year: good food! amazing weather! roof! walls! wood stove! long extension cords that bring power from the power tower! cute dog! cute partner! and last but not least the 70 PEOPLE WHO HAVE HELPED US OVER THE YEARS!<br />
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A hike around the property and through the park</div>
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What an amazing weekend it was! The very last of the scaffolding was taken down. Can we get a woo-hoo? And almost as quickly as it was taken down it's being transformed into new decking for the 'grotto' the rather large and airy space underneath our cabin. </div>
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When the crew wasn't building there was some good eating happening with my second and most successful attempt at pork ribs in a homemade molasses BBQ sauce and some very delightful chocolate chip cookies provided by Mike. <a href="http://www.nigella.com/" target="_blank">Nigella</a> if you are reading this, I can tell you that Mike can follow a recipe like a hot damn and is pretty handy with power tools too. He is also a skilled crib player as his 4-0 victory over Kevin will attest. Just something to think about now that you are single....</div>
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This past weekend we went to visit a friend on another part of the island, near where Kevin and I got married (nearly 14 years ago!) Her work and energy are always inspiring so I could have taken dozens of photos but here are just a few of my favourite details about her place. </div>
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July has gone by so fast! We got the initial inspections done, <a href="https://plus.google.com/photos/114027646122804684053/albums/5862460942071369729/5900911992379278722?pid=5900911992379278722&oid=114027646122804684053" target="_blank">found a set of stairs floating in Howe Sound</a>, <a href="https://plus.google.com/photos/114027646122804684053/albums/5862460942071369729/5900911982835580498?pid=5900911982835580498&oid=114027646122804684053" target="_blank">built decks</a>, grew tomatoes, ate great food,<a href="https://plus.google.com/photos/114027646122804684053/albums/5862460942071369729/5906294788026097922?pid=5906294788026097922&oid=114027646122804684053" target="_blank"> rescued Ralphie when he fell off the dock</a>, trampolined up a storm and enjoyed every minute of the amazing weather. </div>
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Apologies for the infrequency of correspondence. I am sure that you have been checking our blog (<a href="http://7lcabin.blogspot.com/">7lcabin.blogspot.com</a>) for the latest updates on our cabin building adventures. We have been up on Gambier Island most weekends this spring and plan to continue into summer. OUr project is going pretty well although I was reminded that we need to renew our building permit as it has been 6 years since we first got ours!</div>
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We have been enjoying our first attempts at gardening, great food and a championship disk golf course right at our doorstep. If you feel like joining us let us know and we can make arrangements. Look forward to seeing you all this summer,</div>
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"So I heard that eerie bellow from the pond. This time I was determined to track it down. As I snuck up on the croaking frogs, there was that bellow again and again. No buck to be seen, so a bull frog it had to be. Damn - didn't those froggies sense the danger they were in? As I drew level with the pond, the bellow seemed to drift up Andrew's hill. In billygoat mode I charged up but the bellow seemed to draw further away. One speedy bullfrog I thought. As I neared the top of the hill, the bellow suddenly transformed to a roar, seemingly from a nearby tree. I paused and waited, admittedly a little scared, thinking in this fading light I was about to confront the mother of all climbing bull frogs. Thirty seconds and there it was again, but 50' further east, then south, then west. This was super climbing, flying mother of all bull frogs messing with my head!<br />
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Then looking up I finally saw the flying bull frog. And yes it had wings, beautiful long narrow wings. I think it's called a night hawk, which does this acrobatic manoeuvre, similar to a humming bird, where it climbs high, stalls, does a head first dive at high speed and pulls up just before hitting the ground. It's the pull up that makes the bellow. Long live flying bull frogs."<br />
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In the work department, Kevin finished some milling and Mike and Malcolm started on the much -anticipated decking.<br />
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Landscape fabric keeps dirt from clogging the holes in the well bottoms. These are the half-height bins so even with dirt in them they were manageable to move.</div>
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We had the plastic tubing on hand but if I'd had to buy something for this I would have tried bamboo. I think a nice thick stalk would look beautiful!</div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">I've been saving up bits of rope in anticipation of some craft project. I like that it's all different but all yellow.</span><br />
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I spent about three weeks looking for the drainage mat online, I found places in California and Ontario. Then miraculously I found a place in Burnaby that had exactly what we needed. You don't always need a drainage mat for a green roof but because our roof is quite flat (it slopes about 1.5 inches every four feet) drainage is very important.<br />
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We had top soil which we mixed in with pumice and coconut coir. We picked coconut coir since it's a by-product and renewable, unlike peat moss, and we picked pumice over perlite again for its lower environmental impact. I'd read about some even greener alternatives, such as recycled glass growstones but these don't seem to be commercially available yet, We used 1/3 of each material. I'm a little worried this mix will hold too much water since both pumice and coir are more water-retaining than their counter-parts but we'll see how it goes.</div>
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Kevin found a rock down the hill for the step. He not only had to move it up the hill to the cabin, but then get it to the second floor. He got a little peeved when I laughed at him rolling it up the hill,<br />
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Well I see the flowers coming up so this can only mean one thing: Halkett Bay update e-mail.</div>
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Last year we managed to get quite a bit done thanks to wonderful volunteers. This year we are keeping the goals modest:</div>
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We look forward to seeing you at Halkett Bay. We go up most weekends in spring and fall and almost every weekend in summer. Contact us for details.</div>
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Kevin + Sonja</div>
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