CigarStone
For once, knowledge is making me poor!
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I need to name the latest addition at the cabin seen HERE. Whoever comes up with the name I like the best will win a nice fiver from me. The name will be welded on to the front above the opening.
To set the stage it would help if you have a little history.
In the below picture you see the cabin 4 weeks after I bought it and tore the screened porch off and built the addition you see on the right, jacked up the cabin, took out the pillars made of nail kegs filled with cement, and built the post and beam system you see on the left.
Everything at the cabin, over the years, has had a name including the cabin itself. In the first few weeks we called it "camp still standing" because we couldn't believe it never fell down over the 50 years since it was built. When I jacked it up, two of the three concrete pillars fell over and I pushed the third over with one hand. There were places in the floor which were 6-8 inches out of level, you could see stars through the walls at night, and zero insulation made for an interesting first winter. The kerosene furnace served as a cook stove, clothes dryer, and alarm clock. 300 tons of fill (seen behind the unit) and I now have parking for 6 cars and rivers no longer run under the cabin when it rains!
I would do it all over again if I had the time and could find the right place.
The below pic shows what it looks like now.
To set the stage it would help if you have a little history.
In the below picture you see the cabin 4 weeks after I bought it and tore the screened porch off and built the addition you see on the right, jacked up the cabin, took out the pillars made of nail kegs filled with cement, and built the post and beam system you see on the left.
Everything at the cabin, over the years, has had a name including the cabin itself. In the first few weeks we called it "camp still standing" because we couldn't believe it never fell down over the 50 years since it was built. When I jacked it up, two of the three concrete pillars fell over and I pushed the third over with one hand. There were places in the floor which were 6-8 inches out of level, you could see stars through the walls at night, and zero insulation made for an interesting first winter. The kerosene furnace served as a cook stove, clothes dryer, and alarm clock. 300 tons of fill (seen behind the unit) and I now have parking for 6 cars and rivers no longer run under the cabin when it rains!
I would do it all over again if I had the time and could find the right place.
The below pic shows what it looks like now.
