Another milestone day. This morning while Joe was moving material out of the way in front of the house, I pulled the old service off the front of the cabin. What a difference it made in how the old cabin looks.
Before lunch I managed to finish running plumbing for the kitchen and venting it up into the old cabin. I will tie this vent and the other inside of the cabin together near the peak of the roof of the old cabin.
At lunch time the line crew from San Miguel Power arrived and pulled cable through the conduit we recently buried. By 3:00 the power is on! No more cords strung across the yard or blown breakers. Joe brings his big compressor over and changes the oil. It’s much quieter than the others and will run more than one gun.
The remainder of the afternoon I begin to fit the first logs along the north side of the aspen cabin. The bottom log was missing and since we won’t be using the top log from another wall, I use it in place of the missing log. With a circular saw and power plane it's fairly easy to cut down the logs and shape them to fit. I’m sure it wasn’t this easy when some pioneer cut these over 100 years ago. Cutting the corners to make a good fit takes some time as each cut is beveled to form the dovetail corners. With any luck we should have half of the log wall up tomorrow.
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