Lots of pictures

As promised, I took lots of pictures this weekend to document progress on the cabin. I took over 100. I spared you about 75 of those. Here they are, in no particular order because I got tired of putting them in an order. The first ones are of the road immediately next to the cabin. It's a small private drive that is off of the main road. A regular car can get up here. Proof that we're doing this legally...our building permit. :)This is the first sight we saw when we pulled up. Our builder has started on the log siding. Also you can see that the windows have been installed. This is the view from the other side, the side facing the ridge. I could practically stand under the house without bending much, it is that high off the ground. Here is when you first walk in the back door (which is the door on the right side of the above picture). You are facing the stairs which go up to the loft, and to the right of that is the bathroom and storage closet. Straight ahead is the bedroom, and to the left is the living area/kitchen. The bathtub is in! Now let's just hope we can get some running water in this place!View of the hallway and staircase from inside the living area. Under the staircase will eventually be a washer and dryer, although that will probably come down the road. Here is the beginning of the road up to the canyon. You can see on the left tree the signs people have posted for their cabins. This picture doesn't really do justice to just how muddy and torn up this road was after the rains. This is the reason some of the trucks aren't willing to come up there to bring materials. They will slip and slide or get stuck. Believe me, it's really muddy and really rutty. Speaking of those signs, Chad and I decided to go to the "old dump" behind camp to check out the scrap wood for our signs. Here is Chad making the important decision of what pieces of wood to pick. Life-altering stuff. Here is a prototype of a sign that Chad made with a wood burner when he was bored on Saturday night because it was really rainy. We are trying to get Emma to make some prettier signs. Not that Chad didn't do a great job. Okay, back to the cabin. Here is the view of the living room when standing in the kitchen. That wide sliding door is awesome. It will go out to the front deck.
We bought all the lighting fixtures before we came up there. Thanks Home Depot for messing up our order on our wood floors, making us wait 6 months, and then giving us a gift card for messing up. That gift card paid about half the cost of the lighting, which wasn't a cheap expense, especially with all those lightbulbs.

All right, here is a view of me standing in the doorway to the hallway and the loft above. This is before the staircase was put in, which would be behind me.
More treasures we found at the old dump. Couch from the '70s anyone? Old rusty truck? The possibilities are endless.
Chad is in the back bedroom. He is facing what will be a closet.

Here I am checking out the bathroom. Chad took this picture from standing in the kitchen. The window on the right will be directly above the kitchen sink.
A view of the kitchen area. Refrigerator and stove will be on the left, then the sink and cabinets on the facing wall, then in the right side of the room, a dining table. It looks bigger than this in person.

Another living room view from kitchen.
The view out of the sliding door.
View from the balcony. We have decided not to put a banister to give it a more "open" feel, and just to be more adventurous. Good idea huh? Those of you with small kids will just have to keep an eye out. :)
Here's our little loft. The very corners will be areas of more storage space.
And here is our holding tank. Just thought y'all might like to see where "it" goes when you flush "it."
The bedroom. It's actually a pretty good-sized room.
And what would a weekend at BH be without some nature pictures?The sunflowers were in full bloom this weekend.

The weekend was so relaxing and a lot of fun. Chad and I have decided that every Labor Day weekend from now on, we will go to the cabin if we can for a little vacation. It was the perfect time of year to be there. I'm hoping we can make it up there one more time before winter hits, and hopefully the cabin will be pretty much done then. I'm sure I'll post more pictures if anything else happens. Enjoy!