Here is the continuation from last week. This part felt slow going - there was really so much time spent doing the fine-tuning stuff, and doing it by yourself just makes it take so much longer. However, I feel really good about where things are at - I actually almost feel like I'm no longer on the steepest part of the learning curve with all of this building stuff. I'm still climbing hard, don't get me wrong, but I'm feeling just a bit more competent! (watch - next time I go out, I'll find a huge mistake LOL). 🤪🤪
Ok - so although my floor was square, it was slightly bigger than 10'x10' (width was about 10'1/4" or so) and my beams were cut to 10'. So one side (the right side) has a bit of a ledge or lip, so I wasn't referring to the edge of the subfloor for squareness of the wall structures. Does that make sense? As I'm writing this, I'm thinking what I could have done was drawn a chalk line and referred to that, or put tape on the floor, but all too late now.
I am away from this build for a couple of short weeks as we're heading out on our camping trip (plus have the stupid camper reno project that needs to be done too), but am officially on 'holidays' from my nursing job for a solid few weeks, so should be able to get in quite a few days of work on the cabin build.
I'm slowly sourcing out the rest of the doors/windows etc. I will be back on the mill to mill up a bit of new lumber (I think - depending on how bad Phil and Buster messed up my wood).
Oh - and we might have some news to share soon too! It's a bit too soon to say it's a for sure thing, so I'll wait until I know more.
Thanks everyone for joining me and cheering me on from both near and far! I really love the little community of people I've got here with me, and always appreciate your kind and thoughtful AND helpful comments.
See you soon!
Michelle 💕