Usually in the summer I don't get to much done on the cabins. The heat and bugs make it just a little too unpleasant to work out there. I do basic up keep and yard work and just generally keep an eye on the place.
But. . .
I did get to spend a week up in Maine in August and brought back some pictures of a writers cabin up there that I have posted about before. Hopefully a couple views I have not posted before.
This cabin belonged to Edmund Ware Smith.
Here is one previous post about him and the cabin.
And here are more recent photos.
This is the first view you get when you walk up to it from the direction of where I worked.
This view is close to the view in the old photo from the newspaper in the earlier post.
I don't know why they have never rebuilt the porch on the lake side, but it sure would look nice if they did.
This past Saturday I got a chance to do more chinking prep out at the cabin on the Adirondack shelter.
Placing stones between the logs to hold the chinking or dabbing.
This method of applying stones between the logs to hold the chinking or dabbing is a method that would or could have been used on early cabins. I have found it on several I have worked on.
I like it because not only is it a natural material, it also helps support the logs and the cement I use for chinking really binds to it.
Also, better than the modern wire and nail method, which is strong and secure, the stones between the logs makes it easier, if it ever gets moved again, to take down and reuse.
Like fallen dominos.
I got the two sides done and just need to return to finish the back three rows.
Closer look.
From the inside.
This big guy greeted me when I arrived.
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