Walls!

Great weekend progress on our new fishin' shack.

When we got to the DCR lot on Saturday morning we found that the wind had totally destroyed our big tent that we had left up on the platform...it broke the eyebolts we had the tent tied down to, bent & broke a bunch of the poles, and ripped a couple huge holes in the nylon. Bummer! Luckily we were able to scab together a makeshift bug free shelter for Mike and I out of the salvageable parts and the kids used our emergency tent that we keep stashed in the boat. So not a huge deal. 



Broken Tent



MacGyver Tent

After we unloaded all the 2x4s (65 @ 2x4x8 + 6 @ 2x4x12 + 6 @ 2x4x16), we boated back up to the launch and met some friends of ours from Fairbanks, they had come down for the day to see our lot and do some fishing. They helped us load all the siding (14 sheets of T-1-11) & our camping gear into the boat and then we put EVERYONE in the boat. We were testing to see if we could get on step with that much of a load...and YES, we could!! 4 adults, 5 kids, 2 dogs, all the siding & camping gear!! WOW!!

We headed to the lot, unloaded all the gear than our buddy Tim SUPed down the river to the lot (Stand up Paddling...on a SURFboard!), I don't think I have ever seen a surfboard on the DCR.

Piper and Nora had a great time playing on it too...although they were careful not to fall off....the spring fed water in the DCR is literally ICE cold!

They boys went down river and did a little fishin' it was pretty hot so there weren't a lot of bites, but Mike caught a nice golden colored grayling...

After everyone left in the afternoon we got a start on the walls & had 2.5 of them framed up by 10pm (with a dinner break for bison chili & cornbread)....gotta LOVE our LONG summer days!

Sunday we worked all day to get the wall framing complete. The kids are big enough now so they were able to help lift & brace the walls, they also took camp all apart while Mike and I were finishing the framing & sheathing. Big helpers!!


Tekla the Supervisor

View from River

Our Delta friends Brandy and Ross were nice enough to invite us over for a BBQ after we were done....musk ox steaks! Sooo tasty! We got home about 11pm....