ROCK ON!!

This summer has been so hectic for us that we didn't get a chance to visit the cabin from Memorial Day until Labor Day.

Fortunately, the contractor has been in touch and provided a few pictures and updates.  The stonemasons started to work in July, and provided these pictures in early August.

Big improvement over concrete block (or CMU's as they say in the business)!

10 Best All Time Rock Songs

Rock Around the Clock - Bill Haley and the Comets

Rock of Ages - Def Leppard

It's Only Rock and Roll - The Rolling Stones

Rock and Roll Hoochie Koo - Rick Derringer

Old Time Rock and Roll - Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band

Rock and Roll All Nite - KISS

Rock 'N' Roll Fantasy - Bad Company

Rockin' Into the Night - .38 Special

Rockin' in the Free World - Neil Young

Rock and Roll is Here to Stay - Danny and the Juniors

More updates soon!

Overtaken by Winter

August 2011

                                                     December 2011

We are now 18 months since our first meeting with the architect to get started on our retirement home.  The original plan was to get started with construction early this summer and have the cabin "dried in" by the fall.  Alas, one problem after another ensued. The first bank bailed on us.  We didn't realized that you can't build 2 houses on one 9 acre lot, so that led to surveys, appraisers, bankers, lawyers, title companies, etc.,  to split the property, and a new bank that we are still negotiating with.  We started construction with financing from the "Hip Pocket National Bank".  We got the walls up, but when we went to put up the logs for our charming rustic exposed beam ceiling, there were no logs available anywhere in the U.S.!  Four months and thousands of dollars later we managed to get some logs from Canada.  Then the weather turned bad with snow and sub-freezing temps in the high country.  Maybe a roof finally next week???