Digging the well like we’re going for oil (and it will be that valuable one day!):
73 feet later, we now have 30 gallons/minute of fresh water available. There will be a hand pump (yes, just like at Camp Fernwood) and also piping into the main house (only).
Here’s the Bee is after being stained and chinking being added:
Picture of the almost finished Honeybee (thanks so much for sending progress photos, Damian!):
and the interior:
The two guest cabins and one outhouse are up in Montana. I slept in the Honeybush, over in the woods, when I went up for a couple of nights on May 12th. So beautiful and fun, but not so much at 4 am when I crawled out of bed and lit a fire in the wood-burning stove for about an hour to bring ambient temperature up above freezing, then back into bed until a reasonable hour. Here’s me reading in front of the fire in the late afternoon:
The Honeybush grows up:
windows!
That trip is to finalize the exterior finishes on the main cabin/my house. Damian (my builder) is sharing photos of progress so I can enjoy as much of the process as possible, even though I’m not there. Here’s Damian and Chris, the dynamic duo responsible for making this dream of mine come true, on my last visit up north, measuring out and staking where the main cabin will be:
Planning to move enough into those cabins when Lance and I drive up on the 6th of June to be able to live up onsite for a week or a two at a time. I will be staying for a week each month of the summer in order to follow progress on the main house and to start doing work on the land. Can’t wait for you to visit!!
Outhouse en route:
Delivered:
Honeybush interior:
Exterior:
Honeybee, the dovetail cabin, in infancy:
And some local wildlife:
Will share more as I receive! That’s all for now…