Adventuring in the World and Spirit
Posted in Cabin Building Adventure on May 13th, 2010
WOW! Joe and I made great progress today completing four courses including the southern top log. I’m sore after moving so much wood around the second floor. My left forearm is sore to the bone. I’m glad that I’ll have this weekend off again. As I pulled the last top log into place an eagle [...]
Posted in Cabin Building Adventure, Primitive Living and Bush Craft on May 7th, 2010
I found myself looking at the trees and cloudless blue sky and feeling a sense of joy. Then I realized that I had found some sort of balance in living between seemingly opposing worlds. I feel halfway between the forest and humanity, halfway between carefree and responsible, halfway between selfish and selfless. By looking at [...]
Posted in Cabin Building Adventure, Primitive Living and Bush Craft on May 6th, 2010
How long has it been since you lay on your back and watched the stars? I know that I cherished doing just that tonight. I had a nice platform to lay on because Joe and I cut planks and laid them on the second floor deck. In the few minutes that I spent gazing, I [...]
Posted in Cabin Building Adventure on May 4th, 2010
I cut down two pine trees today as we are running out of the trees that we had gathered earlier. These trees were full of water and were heavy. They, however, peeled very quickly and easily. I struggled to get the first log up to the second floor. The black flies today are out in [...]
Posted in Cabin Building Adventure, Primitive Living and Bush Craft on May 3rd, 2010
Last nights forest was full of sounds. The tree frogs have hatched and are making a full chorus. At one point, some ducks flew overhead in the star light. I had a curious noise that I couldn’t identify. I was cooking and heard some rustling to the right. I looked but couldn’t make out the [...]
Posted in Cabin Building Adventure, Primitive Living and Bush Craft on May 2nd, 2010
Tired! We’ve gotten up to the second floor. Tomorrow I’m planning on putting up the floor joists and milling up floorboards out of a large white pine.
Posted in Cabin Building Adventure, Primitive Living and Bush Craft, Uncategorized on Apr 30th, 2010
The cabin is getting tall and working on it now entails standing on ladders or the top of the wall. There are two more courses before I can put a log across the top of the opening for the door. In the afternoon Joe pulled a stump that was near the cabin. It took him [...]
Posted in Motorcycling Central and South America, Primitive Living and Bush Craft on Apr 30th, 2010
The log cabin walls are just over my head now. We seem able mill, peel and lay close to two courses of logs a day. It was a blustery and cold day that brought plenty of sun and blue sky, but strangely enough also brought snow showers. After we layed our daily ration of two [...]
Posted in Cabin Building Adventure, Primitive Living and Bush Craft on Apr 26th, 2010
I’m sore! It’s been around 9 or 10 days now since I started logging and building the cabin. Tomorrow is a rest day to run errands and take care of all those phone calls I owe people (thanks for your patience!). It’s supposed to rain anyways. Today, my friend Gene came over to lend a [...]
Posted in Cabin Building Adventure, Primitive Living and Bush Craft on Apr 25th, 2010
As I’ve been building this log cabin I’ve had a feeling that I’ve been spending time with old friends. The Spruce Tree, the Moon, Deer, Owl, Loon and Birch. We’ve had a spell of clear weather has brought starry nights and a clear moon tracing through the branches and new buds of the trees. The [...]