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Same. You have a lot to be proud of in that cabin.

Thanks man. I'm like a kid when I'm up there.

Thanks. We both are having lots of fun. The cabin feels more like home than home does now. That's what building your own place will do for you. As soon as we are off work we are making a beeline up there for the weekend. Our "home" is just a place we stay in Birmingham 4 nights a weeks now.

I can't see you pics

Bullchit.

i went back to the way I was posting them. Doodoo head.

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A few more pics from this last weekend...

I built another barn door for the upper closet in the upstairs bathroom...



I can't remember if I ever posted a picture of the finished shower. My brother and Mrs. Irish did most of the work. Mrs. Irish and I hung the glass...



The guest bedroom is all finished and I found a nice place for the old 1880's shotgun I bought from Jughead...



Master bedroom is all finished...



I successfully converted the old "mini" cabin into a mini workshop now. It's tiny, but for now it's working for me. It even has A/C...







Some friends of ours donated their old wicker furniture for our back deck and an old vintage porcelain table that was converted into a coffee table... Makes a nice place to sit, smoke cigars and drink bourbon now...

Awesome job Irish! Looks great!

Looking good man u gotta have a gun over front door too..

Looks awesome man!!!

Very Nice Irish! Good job!

Be careful and don't knock that shotgun off the wall. Seems dangerous.

Awesome job....looks like home sweet home!

Thanks man!



I have that 1894 Winchester 30-30 over my side of the bed that is loaded with soft points. I figure I'm not waiting until I walk all the way down to the front door to grab a loaded rifle.

Thanks.



Thanks.



Hopefully the guests won't be having any serious sexcapades in the guest bedroom while we are just on the other side of the wall and knock that damn shotgun off. Besides I don;t even have any 16 gauge shells for it.



Thanks man, and it is like Home Sweet Home. It honestly feels more like home than our home in Trussville feels. So much so that we are going to put our house up for sale in the spring. It just a place we stay when we are in Birmingham for work now. it's weird how your perception of places change.

Looks good

Had a little fun this weekend and took a side trip the the "World's Longest Yard Sale." it was hot and humid so we made it "The World's Shortest Yard Sale." Still I picked up some interesting stuff. I snagged a pair of vintage wooden and rawhide snowshoes. These look like they have had some serious use. Odd to find stuff like this in Alabama. They'll end up as wall hangers at the cabin. I had to do a little repair work on them, which is why they are in my cabin workshop.



I also picked up a nice little vice for the workshop. Probably from the 1940's or 50's. I took it all apart and cleaned and oiled it good and it works great. I left all the patina on it, no need to refinish the damn thing. i picked up some planes too. They are all there. I bought one for spare parts. I need to get after them, clean them up and do a little work on them, but they should function as intended.



I took some of the old "barn wood" actually old deck boards that I saved, and surprised Mrs. Irish by building her an herb garden on the back deck. I even went to Lowes and bought a bunch more herbs and some potting soil and filled it up for her. I even made little cedar signs for each of the herbs. She was one happy camper when she got back from taking her mom home to Gadsden.



I planned, bought materials, and built "Project Dry Firewood" under my lower deck. The only materials I actually had to buy was the 2x8's. Everything else was scrap pieces I had left over. Basically these will eventually be 2 stacks of firewood about 12' long x 6' high x 16" deep. My firewood can only be 16' long to fit in our little European style wood stove. So I'll have almost enough room back here for 2 cords of firewood. I'm going to use some treated lumber and some plastic water barrier and build a short retaining wall under the firewood girders and then level off this back area under the deck for either a work space or for a future tractor or 4 wheeler, etc... That's a log splitter on the right.



Mrs. Irish wasn't loafing either. She made us some nice cabin breakfasts...





She also put up a batch of fermented pickles with fresh garlic, mustard seed, red pepper flakes, fresh dill and salt. One jar she made with Turmeric and no dill per my request. I'm anxious to trying them out. We made a fresh batch of Kimchi last weekend and it is really good. These should be fermented in about 3 to 5 days then we will put them in cold storage.



I know I posted the "morning" thread, but this was just a little later after Mrs. Irish woke up and joined me. Amazing scene with the early morning sun coming through the clouds and highlighting a spot in the valley. The thing about the view here is that it is constantly changing, so it's never the same...

Fine place you have there!

Those clouds straight above the valley look like taller mountains in the distance.

About stacking your firewood....... alway be mindful of copperheads and rattlers hiding in the stacked wood before real cold sets in and even then if they're there they'll just be slower. I might add a few moth balls as I stacked it if it were me.