Cabin
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Spring forward
Anxious to get back at it after the winter, we went out in mid-April to the cabin. After shovelling out the snow from inside, and with the help of my father-in-law, brother-in-law, Travis and others, lifted the fourth wall into place. It was quite obvious, but not at all unexpected that the Tyvek installed on
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The other way
Time lapse in more light. This time from the cabin to town.
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Getting there, the video
I thought I'd put up a short time lapse of a trip to the cabin, from our house, by road to Victor Bay and then over the sea ice to the cabin. Now that we're getting more light back, I should do a daylight version.
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Getting there
The cabin is on Victor Bay, over the hills from Arctic Bay. Now Victor Bay has an easily accessible area, about 4 kilometres by road over the town. Historically this is where people set up camp in the late spring and into summer. Because of its topography Arctic Bay is a bit of a solar
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Walls, and, well, change
The trouble with going back in time like this, for a story on building a cabin, is that you lose much of the opportunity for the really interesting stories. Building alone means being innovative, and on occasion f-ing up and having to deal with the problem you created. There are a few of those stories,
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The cabin on the Tundra
Way back in the origins of this blog, part of the impetuous for writing it was to document the construction of the Bed and Breakfast we were making. Hence the title. I learned a lot in those days of building. From knowing almost nothing about construction to being a passable carpenter. That was in no