Tuesday, September 26, 2006

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Home again

time has come: the bulk weiz us again! For about three days, we can entertain us again on your mood on Lozärndütsch to sleep in our own bed, the morning bite into crusty bread and comfortable with our old Opel Astra curves through the area. Adi I leave the pleasure of a ride, and confine myself on opening the garage door. But somehow no longer seems the car to his "lord and master" used to be and the bucks start huge. With each test, the plate carriage bounces closer to the front wall of the garage. As the bumper just millimeters from being there on Adi discouraged. I did my part since the Petrol history or a score to settle and wants to polish up my image a bit. So I dare a last attempt to start the car. And lo and behold, trouble-free as ever, it starts and can be obedient to steer out of the garage. Adi is incredulous wonder and slightly confused next to it, finally, because a woman is sitting at the wheel. Well, my dear Adi, what the tumble of the start button, which is the manual transmission car containing the coupling ;-)!

But back to our last three weeks in Canada: The topping w ar so to speak, the go-ahead to a brilliant final sprint. In addition to many smaller (but, unfortunately, often time-consuming) work were still the insertion the windows and doors. There were two reasons why we were so so late. On the one hand, our cabin or even our log cabin at the request of Johanne and Sylvain was higher and more complex than originally planned. This had also meant that we had to beat again in mid-July a dozen trees. On the other hand, did the two very hard time with the organization of windows. They could not understand how important it was mainly for Adi to stop the project, ie to let a house with a roof, windows and doors back. When they came back then from the three-week vacation in France without having ordered the promised window (three to five weeks for delivery are common in Canada and there), pulled us out of patience. We were very close, vacate our earlier material together to take trouble, three beautiful holiday weeks. Thanks Annie and Mario did not do so. Short decided they ordered two windows and a door. Merci beaucoup! We were, therefore, covered the roof and celebrated a topping that would have even the Gauls with envy can pale. In this period we also visited my parents who retired this year, "rang" with a seven-week trip to Canada. For them was only half time and after three weeks in Western Canada by motorhome, they enjoyed the three quiet days for us obviously. Thank you for the way we have to "get out" found! We also enjoyed the time with you!


And so arose towards the end but still containing some frantic minutes for a lles what decency could be done. The insertion of the windows were designed to be less difficult than expected, only at the door, we were again facing a small problem: she was too high. We would have to saw through a log with a supporting role that seemed ill advised. Mario therefore make a quick decision left a door to measure. And because time was short, he had the good carpenter just times three days, with the warning: "If not by Thursday evening is finished, I paid you!". It worked so we could spend our last night in the Canadian bush in a completed log house with two windows and a door. (The remaining windows will be installed next year.)


stay in front of our Abfl ug us on Thursday, two days in Quebec, we ship to say goodbye to all our friends, make car number, material, ... good. Everything goes so fast that we hardly have time to realize that our Canadian adventure is definitely over. The upcoming trip home, we see a mixed blessing contrary. We know that since the story in London, the safety regulations were tightened again. And they promptly take us in Quebec before giving up out of the luggage. In the large duffel bag they have discovered a suspicious object. The next 10 minutes are spent clearing out. In a wild confusion there are maple syrup, solar panel, dirty underwear, books, ... to light (not for nothing that the tax collectors wear gloves). Only the ominous thing is gone. Finally, see also the tax collectors that we have no hidden bomb in the luggage and let us go. We, or Adi come, but not far. When people check it is position just sampled before we can enter. And so it should go w pus. For each pick, change the tax collectors Adi out, pull him off his shoes, touch his feet (which it already put about 24 hours in the same shoes ...), take his picture. Adi makes the best of a bad job, ultimately it would be negligent to let such a muscle-bound karate as to pass unchecked, he says ;-) (I lead the whole back more to chance, his black hooded sweatshirt and maybe his hairstyle -. for the latter but I myself am responsible) Nevertheless, we reached Zurich on schedule and are Taxi drivers and Matteo Adis parents with poster, flowers and minibus received (molto grazie!).


is settling in the home are anything but heavy and the jetlag is quickly forgotten, with all the calls, SMS and spontaneous short visits. At this point a very big THANK YOU to you all (family, friends, colleagues)! Thanks for all the lovely e-mails (some of which are unfortunately still unanswered, sorry :-(), for mental support, encouraging words, the reading of our adventures, the tenterhooks along and compassion, the spontaneous Phone calls and visits from the distant home country! A heartfelt thank you, we also want the Grisons for company Off-grid systems to send Mr. Hassler . Thanks to its powerful and totally travel-friendly solar panel we were during the last five months, sometimes a little energy, but never dead! Toll also that one problem could be resolved as quickly and without bureaucracy. (Who wants to know more about solar panels, which the page was
info@offgridsystems.ch emfpohlen.) And last but not least, here again Ralph Pfersich mentioned without its price, book and written and oral advice nothing came of our project would be!

It was impressive, instructive, exciting and eventful five months. Who knows what will happen next. Perhaps there is a chance to work here in the Switzerland in this area. In any case, we were not the last time in Canada. We will pay our block house every now and then a visit there and enjoy some vacation days! Hey, by the way: if you want to contact us, either with respect to questions, comments, ideas for log homes or, more generally, to achieve our time in Canada, we either blockhuette@hotmail.com or at telephone number 041 534 32 30 We look forward to feedback of any kind!

Tuesday, September 5, 2006

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The past three weeks have been even more so eventful that prompt the writing was too short. We did not even have time to empty our mailbox. And that's really saying something, because your messages, encouragements and greetings are sacred to us!
To make it short: The ridge purlin fits perfectly and the angle fit (which is not only to thank me and Adi ). While working on the first gable, is us meaning in the sense that we do not know how much we have to do it. We remember still weak, that we would help the trigonometric function arithmetic here, but have no idea anymore how to do it. So we decide we wait, Ralph (log house guru, teacher and sponsor of our clutch bell), to ask for advice. And in fact we get a few days later, a mail with the necessary explanations. Many thanks, Ralph, for your express answer! (Other students have actually also questions and, if so, have you ever considered to employ a secretary?) In any case, we return confident with the corresponding formula in the bag on the building site back. Our optimism is short-lived. It turns out, namely, that neither have our pocket calculators were still on the laptop Winkelfuntkionstasten. Crap, time is running out, because in two days is to hang up the excavator the purlin. In our distress we pick up the phone and call Adis Joker to his father. He quickly added his yellow booklet formula (a relic from the Gymizeiten his sons ...) and the calculator at hand and barely ten minutes later, we are holding the requested information: If the gable height 1 .89 meters.
, we must admit: The Beginner's Luck "followed" on us. Random complements the amount of both solid wood gable with the strength of the ridge purlin absolutely perfect! time to celebrate the success of this important goal remains to us but little. Now it is the 22 (!) Prepare rafters. Quite a lot, but in view of the snowy winter months (this year the snow height of 4 meters!) Absolutely makes sense. We just have to place the sophisticated four-gable rafters before arriving Adis parents. They have been around a week in Canada and are looking forward now appears to us to actively support the building site . And of course we are grateful for any handout. The attachment of the rafters is a threesome just already much better and faster. Adis and mother had taken a nurse can easily be a painter. Gertrude, Melchior: Thank you very much for your great help, the certification in a log cabin her locker gets! But as the saying goes: Work is not everything (or was it money?). In any case, we use the time together or for watching beavers in the canoe, cozy chat, exciting and impressive Jassrunden short visit with the whales. There we talk once again with Dominique, who has apparently intense regarding our offer log homes set apart (and still expressed a genuine interest - he has even shown us the proposed location). We'll see.
On Wednesday evening we returned from the whales and said goodbye in Adis parents. We stayed two days in order to control boards, we zusägten rind from the boards to close the openings between the rafters. Last Saturday it was finally time. At eight o'clock we took the roof in attack. The required material was ordered and shipped directly to the building site. Despite some small margin (of a supply, the sheet was forgotten, at a certain mass of the other boards or the number not supplied), the atmosphere was great and the work went quickly. Adi and I benefited a lot, but we had no idea how to make a roof covers. (We had our little hut covered probably with boards and earth.) At this point a very large MERCI to Pierre , the "chief organizer" of the roof, the infinitely invested much time, energy and effort into our project has to Annie that was always and everywhere with the patience and good humor girls for everything and we were spoiled at every opportunity with culinary delights, to Mario , of us with his humor, expertise, and his zwirbligen work force (despite Dyskushernie! ) to the side, stood at Sylvain and Johanne to us in their chalet granted asylum and a large part of the additional acquisitions, to Martine (Pierre's wife) who decided not to vacation with Pierre and we instead here in no man's land catered to Denis , who with his tractor and his followers always at the right time, right place was to Rodrigez and Mariette (the parents of Annie and Sylvain), who helped us with many kind words and all the others we mention here not by name, who helped us in any way! Only thanks to their r assistance, our log cabin to become what it is! The results speak for themselves really, and we are proud of our first album! Meanwhile Adi can imagine a life without power saw only with difficulty and is already dreaming of jobs in Switzerland. One morning Adichef even so engrossed in his Planerei that he did not notice until after half a cup, that the supposed Instant coffee was just hot water ...! (To be noted in its defense that the cup was dark brown.)


two and a half weeks we remain until our return to Switzerland. We can tackle the whole, although now a little more comfortable, but there could still be one or the other to do. So we still have to make the false floor, which occupies the rear half of the house, the window and cut door openings, which saw two spurs on the home front, and make several small jobs and repairs. And - last but not least - we are next Saturday to celebrate a great topping with all our friends a la Asterix and Obelix, ie, suckling pig, wine and beer.