construction holiday, and a first offer see you here again lack of time, the latest Lake Valley Heritage Indicative printed. Some important additions we would like but not denied. You can find them at the end.
Two weeks ago, we spontaneously get the message that we will visit a friendly couple from Switzerland. Now they are here and we have grasped the opportunity with both hands and turned on a common vacation week. Which meets g
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here in Quebec have so-called structural holiday and all the craftsmen to take a two week "enforced break." During our trip we have found that Eastern Canada has to offer, together with trees still an awful lot more. In perfect weather we erküren every new day the most beautiful our recent trip. A highlight after the next (zoo, bike tour with overnight stay at the sandy beach in the National Park, whale watching in the sea kayak, ...). The latter turns out to be the undisputed highlight! The appropriate tip, we have Mario, a relative received our Canadian friends. The recommended campsite is incredibly beautiful location on gently sloping to the St Lawrence river rocks. From there you can spend hours watching the vorbeizie
existing whales. We are somewhat disappointed when we arrived at just the farthest tent sites (no seaview) are free. As the boss comes into the office and we sent him on the off chance a greeting from Mario from. And lo and behold, five minutes later we put our tents on one of the foremost (for Dauerermieter reserved) seats and feel - not without satisfaction - some envious glance in the back. Well, sometimes, vitamin B-containing quite useful! The weather, the mood and the whales are so great that we just decided to add yet another day. Deeply impressed by this magnificent marine mammals decide Adi and I, in August (the best season for whale watching) again to come here. We also say Dominique, head of the camp, the goodbye
. It reacts surprised that we still will always be in the area. When we told him to tell even from our cabin project, white Dominique not really know whether we take him on the arm. Only when we show him some photos, his skepticism turned into interest. And since he himself has long been toying with the idea to set up camp on his two or three log cabins, we agree that we will meet again in three weeks to negotiate a possible construction next summer. With the prospect of a new order we return recovered to countless unforgettable experiences richer and with a new zest to our building site back.
And here are the promised additions that are not for all ears:
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... exercise! Nico's and Adi can not wait to get under the hood and do in every church, in which we go past and put a hold. Once we have made them the joy and hope we now for the next 10 years to have peace again ... ;-)
this week to help Denise and Nicole still actively part in the final laps. We lack a further 2 - 3 rounds and hope that we did this until her departure on Monday. working at this height it is already easier than the four of holding together.
half How much have we placed at this point, a picture of the current build status. But since the battery of the solar panel is unfortunately still a ways off (as well as the books that my mother has sent 2 months ago), we can not fetch any new pictures from the camera. Fortunately we have another two or three elderly in stock, we can show you. Regarding the progress of our cabin, we are now fully dependent on your imagination. To make it short: We have four walls and bar height exceeded 2m approach the limit. Round 10 is complete and we expect that we can begin after 3 rounds with the roof. But this is pie in the sky, we see only a little bit back: There is exactly one month since we have noted with Armin's help in the first round of attack. That was hard work, we had but the tribes still carry the car to the building site and then they move there by hand, lift, rotate, ... . Thank God we kriegten the next day gain in the form of two cousins of Sylvain (Pierre-Denis) and a tractor! Both were written officially sick (shoulder injury) and distributed so the free time in forest work (they left for the evening exercises the physiotherapist away ...). Thanks to them we had in two days all 65 strains of finely stacked neatly at the building site. Egg
sionally we would love to have now begun to attract the high walls. But for now, we still had to prepare the soil of our hut. It was Armin us with his experience as a carpenter of great help. At a distance of about 70 cm, we installed rafters. Then we installed a grid (protection from porcupines and other uninvited guests), which we covered with a wooden pallet in order to screw it finally big wooden boards laid. Once the roof is then made, we will isolate the sub-floor with polystyrene and a second layer boards . Cover Perhaps you have seen in the last photo of our previous report that a cable passes through the cabin. Adis to great satisfaction, we work for 2 weeks with a chain hoist, which leads to a skyline on the building site. Adi has been talked about before we left to move in this way trunks. I was like to be honest not very enthusiastic. Pierre, however, had the same idea as Adi and organized for us for such material. (We would have the operation cost $ 2,000, he let his play
s Connections and got all silly occasion for as much as 100 dollars!) With Pierre's help and the tractor was us 2 days later, a working Skyline available to us today to facilitate the work tremendously. Our daily average is so now at about 2 strains. (If `s raining, we pull our a well-deserved days off.) Our daily routine looks something like this in short: go early in the spring (about 6 clock), long work and then sleep early again (about 21 clock). The mosquitoes has been narrowed somewhat, but there are days that are almost unbearably hot. (Short rack: The Chalet of Sylvain and Johanne looks with its large windows while out beautifully, but has the disadvantage that it turned on fine days in a greenhouse. After such a day we just decided to put our inner tent on the pier and enjoyed the cool evening breeze. The next morning we started our work before the first cock enschrei. The working conditions were optimal, as the strong wind drove the mosquitoes, we got underway. When we came back in the evening tired and wanted to enjoy our Fe
ierabendbier on the dock, the tent was gone, or stop just gone with the wind. We immediately launched an extensive search operation in the undergrowth. Result. It was only left one alternative: the sea. Adi hopped into the canoe and paddled along the shore. Shortly afterwards, told me his howls of joy that he find anything was. The tent (and with it Adis forehead bitch) about 300 m from the bridge was removed in 2 m depth to surface. The mountain was a breeze, the smell of fish we brought but still not completely gone. By the way: Petzl is waterproof) is On such hot days adjusted the program accordingly, as we get up out of 5 clock, this clock be connected between 13 und 16 clock a siesta!. In the meantime, has been found that Adi and I are on the site for building a dream team and complement each other perfectly. The work process has been well established, lap after lap, it means clean lay tribes, alignment, draw, take down, sawing, milling, Isolating heave up again and let the master come at last in his name. The dry "Toc", which is a master at fitting neatly drawn up by himself, has become one of our favorite sounds.
But we are fascinated not only the block construction. Denis and Pierre have been for a long time ago, to build himself a log house and pack up now jumping at the chance to acquire basic knowledge. Otherwise we must have no fear of lonely here, for despite stalemate keeps popping up on someone from the large family who wants to support us energetically. Speaking of support: Tomorrow we will gain from home! Nicole and Denise Lätt have very short notice decided to visit us here in Canada. We will enjoy it, to once again be able to chat with someone in such a way as we grew the beak (en suisse allemand!).