We've Got Mail!!!...

Yes Blog Cabin fans we have finally received mail! Our very first letter or let-ters I should say! There were 6 pieces total. We received a post card from "Our Wayne" & mom from Savannah GA and Florida and also 4 letters in different color envelopes!!...a green envelope an orange a yellow and a blue! The post cards were pretty...a picture of the streets of Savannah and a pretty cottage on the beaches of Gulf Bay Florida! According to the post cards Savannah is beautiful, especially the old historic plantation homes. Florida is quite warm these days...in the 90's and humid, but the ocean is like bath water ((ooooooh)) and the sunny beaches are gorgeous. There were even dolphins at the beach that swam about 5 feet away! Good Stuff! The cards I received in the blog cabin mailbox were cute too. We received a "thinking of you at the blog cabin" card that had a cute wrinkly Bull dog on the front...a pre-season Halloween card which got me excited for pumpkin pie and the mini individually wrapped candies that they sometimes change to orange and black to suite the season! Candy Yummmm!!! I LOVE HALLOWEEN...and all the treats that come with it! we received another cute card with a cat on it who was dressed mighty dapper for a cat if you ask me ;)...And last but not least I also received an envelope full of stickers!! There were all kinds...puppy stickers, duck stickers and some really cool 3D stickers with the googlie eyes! I love my blog cabin fans! THANK YOU ALL FOR THE FAN MAIL and Keep the blog cabin mail coming! I love checking to see what little surprises I may get next! Oh! ...and I will post the stickers, post cards, and the rest of the fan mail for you to view and enjoy as well:)

Be back later!
-J

Blog Cabin R & R...

This weekend while the construction is on hold P & I decided to enjoy a little blog cabin R & R! First, we did my most favorite thing in the whole wide world...we slept in! :) We woke up the natural way to the most peaceful sounds of nature. Around 9:30 the sun peeked in between the window shades and lit up the room. We laid in bed for a while and listened to the peaceful sound of the cool fall water trickling over the stones in the brook...so much better than my annoying alarm clock that I would love to smash! lol... Then, we lounged around in our jams for a bit and drank fresh brewed tea and coffee, ate some cookies, and chatted until about 10am. At this time we decided to start a puzzle!!! YAY! We broke out a new puzzle from our game trunk and sat down at the designated puzzle table and began! I poked through the shrink wrap with a fork and ripped the cellophane right off the box! What joy! We completed the border and a few chunks of the middle...no great achievement, but a good start at that:) After that we got a blog cabin phone call on our black rotary dial phone! ((RING RING!!))It was my sister inviting us over to watch the game and to do some relaxing kayaking! We took her up on her offer and off we went! I chose the kayaking and P chose to watch the game with my brother-in-law Jon....although I did stick around long enough to grab some yummy game snacks before we paddled off! lol. It was the most perfect kayaking day ever...Sunny...about 73 degrees and a slight breeze! It was a wonderful day! Here is a video and some pictures!
Enjoy...

And Now Introducing...

OUR NEW BATHROOM!!!! Hip Hip Hooray! Hip Hip Hooray!

Yes my friends...it is finally here...our new bathroom! How exciting! The shower is not quite finished yet, but it's going to be a corner shower and it will save us space which is important for a little cabin. It will be floor to ceiling and be surrounded by 3 panels of shiny new glass! ((Oooooo)). In addition to it's stylish geometric shape, it will also have a built in soap dish, razor, and shampoo shelf on the back wall! Everything will have its place and everything will stay nice, neat, and blog cabin organized...just how I like it :)**sigh** Next, we will need to decide on some tile, light fixtures and yep...you guessed it...a brand new medicine cabinet :)There are so many syles, how will we choose??...AND WHEN WE DO, DON'T GO SNOOPIN' AROUND IN IT WHEN YOU COME OVER FOR A BLOG CABIN VISIT EITHER!!!...hmpffffff! lol...JK...you can snoopy if you want, JUST DON'T TAKE ANYTHING FOR CRYIN' OUT LOUD!!! lol..JK ...we trust you... kinda' :)~

This is a cute picture of P and I with Gracie in our kitchen! Aren't we a cute family??? Awwwwee.


See ya soon with more updates!
Don't forget to send blog cabin fan mail! We would love to hear from you and post your thoughts~!

J & P :)

Fan Mail Welcome!...

Well..I have just received word that "Our Wayne" and mom are relaxing and livin' it up in sunny Florida! It must be nice to have a month to drive around to where ever the breeze may blow:) I hope they are having a wonderful time because they totally deserve the much needed R & R to break up all the hard work they are doing at the Blog Cabin.
During a very interesting phone conversation with them I gathered all the fun filled details of their trip so far. They first drove to Georgia, and then to Florida and on the way back they will be stopping in North Carolina!...Hmmmm...maybe I wasn't listening that well??? Maybe I got those states outta' order?? Hmmm...I dunno...Anyhoo... They also mentioned that they had mailed P & I a beautiful post card from Savannah GA and they mailed it to the Blog Cabin! OMG! THIS WILL BE OUR VERY FIRST PIECE OF MAIL!!! HOW INCREDIBLY EXCITING!!! Then I thought to myself...OMG! WE DON'T HAVE A BLOG CABIN MAILBOX!!!! I thought to myself..."self"???...What to do???
So, P & I busted our humps and put up a mailbox lickity split! Ain't she a beauty???
I did all the fancy cuttin'on the post lol...that is why it's really short and the slant cuts are uneven! ;) lol
So...now that we have a mailbox, we are ready for FAN MAIL!!! Send us you Blog Cabin fan mail and we will post it on our blog! Sorry ya'll ...the address for fan mail must be obtained through friends and family only...this way nobody creepy will show up on my door step! :)

-J

TAH DAHHHHH!!!.....

The blog cabin addition is up and we are on a roll!!! Sorry for the brief hiatus on the Blog Cabin Adventure, but as you can see we were busy, busy, and oh yeah...BUSY!!! :)
As you can see, our walls are up, sheathing is on, the decking for the 2nd floor is complete and our windows are in! ((YEAH!!))It looks pretty spiffy if you ask me!



We have our new addition all buttoned up for the next few weeks as "Our Wayne" and mom are on a brief hiatus themselves! They are taking a few weeks off for some R & R in Georgia, then Florida, then North Carolina **sigh**
Once they return we will start constructing our master loft above the new kitchen and bath! This is soooo very exciting to P and I because we thought we were going to have to wait until Spring to put the master loft on, but fortunately we won $500.00 on a Patriots scratch ticket this past Friday which gave us the rest of the money needed to complete the 2nd story! Hip Hip Hooray!!! THANKS DAN! :)
This is some pretty exciting stuff ladies and gentlemen - yes sir it is!

Take a look below...for the before and after pics! As you can see there are a few reference points to compare and contrast the pictures. There are the sliding doors and the cabinets. You can see where the cabinets are in the "before" shot and then see how we blew through that wall into our new kitchen in the "after" shot. GOOD STUFF! :) In the "before" shot, there was a tree trunk holding up part of our ceiling! In the "after" shot...no trunk! YAY!

BEFORE & AFTER...


New bathroom pictures coming soon!
-J

All Kindsa' Piles...

Ever since we started blog cabin construction we seem to be accruing various piles of...well...construction stuff. lol.

We have a very unattractive pile of broken concrete & broken brick from an old wall we tore down:



A beautiful pile of blog cabin field stone that we found while digging the foundation:



Many small piles of tools:



Two GINORMOUS piles of lumber from the DEMOLITION GRRRRR:



A pile of sticks from some tree trimming P likes to do with her trusty bow saw:



A normal pile that every cabin should have..a "wood pile" for camp fires:



A pile that not every blog cabin should have..a pile of gravel left over from mixing the cement for the foundation footings:



And...a small pile of left over cinder block from the foundation:



So...do to to overwhelming amount of "piles" we have accrued in our little blog cabin yard, this Saturday will be dedicated to blog cabin clean up! P & I will be borrowing "Our Wayne's" truck ((GRRRRRR)) - purchasing our very first dump sicker & hauling a bunch of this crap to the dump!

It is time to say goodbye to some very large piles!

-J