It's All Happening

The days are a blur of excitement and starting to blend together. Last weekend we went down to find the cabin’s first floor fully framed with walls! What a sight. We could see where each of the windows will be and it's really feeling tangible at this point. 

Neil shimmied up to the second story loft floor with a chain saw on a stick to trim away some branches so they wouldn't touch the soon-to-be roof.

Our boy used a rake to start chipping away at the trail we are starting in the woods. I took about 4,000 pictures and blew sawdust out of my bra.

Then a few days later I drove down alone on a day off work to meet the builders and do a check-in. My jaw dropped when I saw the two story fully-painted building before me, with all the gorgeous windows in place! I arrived when the builders were at lunch and just stood in the quiet cabin overlooking the peace of the woods. I was imagining myself waking up and watching the deer as I drink my coffee. It doesn't get better than that.

Before my next and latest trip down, I was busy securing insurance on the place and working on getting an official address. No small feat! I'm also making a list a mile and a half long of all the things we need. It's a LOT. The outside may be happening fast, but the inside will take time. And patience. Which, for the record, I absolutely do not have.

And finally, yesterday I drove down with my Mom and her boyfriend and we made ourselves busy building temporary steps to the front door using the patio pavers that were laid out when we bought the property. 

The interior staircase is one of the last things to be done so we still couldn't access the loft, but there was plenty still to admire. 

Except the f***ing wasps! I thought they were bees but based upon my research, we have a yellow jacket problem now. It says they are an aggressive species like the red wasps that stung the s***t out of me before so, yay. 

Apparently wasps are smart enough to stalk you down, sting you multiple times, and recruit their friends to do the same. But dumb enough to see a fake paper nest and literally relocate their entire tribe. So I ordered a fake, waterproof wasp nest which should arrive on Wednesday. (Who am I)? 

Anyway, next weekend we plan another trip to see what should hopefully be the finished exterior of our cabin in the woods. Our little woodland retreat. If it hasn't been fully inhabited by stinging insects, that is.

Stay tuned.