In fall of 1979, my brother Thomas and I set up some batter boards and laid out the space that was to become our cabin. We used cement in the pier holes and brick as a build up from the ground with a solid piece of redwood planted on the top so the girders could be nailed to the piers. That is about as far as we got, as the weather turned wet and cold. Not bad for two people who had never built a cabin before. The following summer, with a far more robust crew, the cabin went up and by summer's end it was water tight, more or less. For many years thereafter, we kept adding little rooms onto the original structure. Although it has a Winchester Mystery House appearance from the distance, it is actually just a cabin in the woods........
What a gorgeous picture of your palatial mansion. It looks more as though your cabin belongs in Los Altos Hills, or Hillsborough. Brother Thom seemed to get himself involved in all sorts of building shenanigans, back in the day. "Talkin' about him, where in the hell did he go? He's been gone a week now. Get him on the horn…" Cheech and Chong.
ReplyDeleteBTW, my verification word (vw) was begollie, as in "Guess and by golly Construction…"
It is a lovely cabin in the woods. Funny, I don't see it as a collection of little rooms. I see it as cozy home. Admittedly, my clearest impressions and memories come from the years when you and Olga lived there and then from when Laura and Rob lived there - very comfortable cabin in the woods.
ReplyDeletePS: funny word verifciation: wallies - as in the beavers and?