Building season for the Farmer

Hello followers. The hot dry summer days seem to have given way to a rainy weather pattern. The fields and gardens were getting very dry, but now there is renewed life with the recent rain. The second cut of hay is all baled and packed away in the barn. We, I mean the Gatherer, has canned green beans, made pickles, blackberry jam along with freezing corn and many other garden items. The squash and pumpkins seem to be ready and most are picked and are stored away for later. We have had some of our new potatoes, a poor crop to say the least, along with some carrots. Overall we have largely avoided the grocery store this summer, except when we run out of peanut butter or toilet paper.

As you may have read in my last post, we were preparing for a building trip to Aroostook County, well it happened. In the middle of August, the Farmer, Gatherer and our four little farm hands headed North for a week of relaxation and oh yea, building our new camp.
Slowly at first, then a little quicker, the camp begun to take shape. With beautiful weather and a spectacular view, we worked from dawn until dusk, and sometimes later.


Everyone helped, when they could, but the Farmer really had to push to keep going. Hey this isn't a blog about the Builder, what do you expect? Well, let's go forward eight days, and look what we built. What a marathon build. The camp is a well built 12'x16' closed building, plus an 8'x12' covered porch, including a 12'x12' loft. We hauled about 8000 pounds of lumber north with our truck and trailer and left it there hooked together with about 5000 pneumatic nails. Tired, sunburned and unshaven, we made the 6 hour trip "down state", back to home and the farm. On the next day we rested.