Cabin Addition 1981
On June 2, 1981 one old man (Bill, 37) and three youngsters (each 20 - Mike Bagg, John Eisemann, David Swartz) started to build an addition to our cabin, with the help of a woman (Joan) who wielded a mean draw knife stripping bark from the logs. The log work took about 3 weeks. The cost (materials, labor, drilling a well, full plumbing) was $17,000. An 8-foot 2x4 cost about $1.50 ($9.32 today).
For forty years the cabin addition has enriched our lives in ways far beyond anything that we could have imagined in 1981.

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1. High tech architectural drawings
3. Another example of advanced technological planning: Left: Septic tank (oval) and leach field (square, lower left). Right: rafters.
5. Dave, Bill, Mike
6. The transit was loaned to us by Dave's brother Robert
7. Bill, Dave, Mike. Celebrating the laying of the first log
8. Mike shaves bark with the draw knife. Later, he would shave off the tip of a finger with the planer.
9. John cleans a log (septic tank in background)
10. Mike and John scribe a log for making a half-saddle notch...
11. ... and Mike cleans a notch after scribing. Making the half-saddle notches was the most fun job, especially when it was put back and was found to fit snugly.
12. John, Dave (holding Ursa), and Mike
13. Mike and John
14. Mike, Dave, and John
15. Advanced leveling technique. Bill, John, and Dave
16. Dave pins a log
17. Bill touches up a log
18. Dave celebrates
19. Dave
20. John does the difficult work of trimming the gable logs
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23. Jennifer (8) pitches in.
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25. The children are Violet (left) and Simon (right) Ridge
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27. Jennifer
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29. We started June 2 and were done by July 9 (including the deck)
30. Total cost (materials, labor, water well) was $17,000
31. Lumber was a bit cheaper then - an 8 foot 2x4 cost about $1.50