Barfing Materials

Sometimes I make abstract photo art.

After a long, hard, wet day I'm just gonna blammo ya some highlights.

• Digital camera monitor smashed. Cool new abstract monitor image. Shooting blind.
• Building materials delivered to site.
• Corduroy trail is a mud pit.
• 6x6 office piers cut to level height.
• One pier includes three small posts stack. Will connect with hurricane straps as a reference to the metal in my leg.
• Had a nice visit from Lynn and Bob to the office site. Good to see mom's friends come by to visit. They've helped mom cut wood for her winter fuelwood needs in the past.
• Realized the office is not a building, but really a housesled. Y'know, like a houseboat, only it slides on snow runners formerly known as beams. It could also be a houseboat as it would float. And with the entry ladder, it'll be ready for when the icecaps melt. Oh, and has creative playground and one room chapel elements too. You'll see.
  

I passed along a weblink to Bob and Lynn in the hope that they're interested in the new forestry ideas I'm applying at Deerwood. The 'Ontario Tree Marking Guide' serves as the basic policy document of the forest management system I've begun so far. It's the Ministry of Natural Resourses' (MNR) brain dump of all the best sustainable forestry practices and a real 279 page turner. The MNR and local non-profit organizations like Westwind Forest Stewardship are truly at the cutting edge of New Forestry and I'm grateful that we all have access to this world class knowledge resource.

It was hardcore loadin' with an eight plywood sheet delivery.

Then onto the lumber hauls. The Foreman rocks but don't roll.

And the building materials are delivered!

The first sawcut. After a bad start, I slowly
remembered how to saw.

My humiliation makes me want to improve my craftsmanship.

One set of piers are cut...

...and the other is fitted in twilight. Hurrah!