Digressing Momentarily for Cabin Repairs.

Only way under the house.

I have been away for several days.  I was planning to blog more about the process of curing walking sticks but ran out of time to make a blog post before I left.  I will be writing more about that on the post on Sunday.  I need some time to photograph, process, sort, and post the pictures. 

Damaged floor.  New vapor barrier now in place.

Regular readers know my husband and I are in the process of renovating the cabin.  It is sixty years old.  The cabin is definitely in need of repairs.  Some joists were rotted and needed replacing.  The underlayment was crumbling. The flooring is linoleum from the 1960 1970s or thereabout.  Some of it has crumbled to tiny bits in places.   Our mission this past week was to repair the  joists, remove the rotted flooring, and patch the
flooring so that it will be ready for a new
floor.  Next trip up we plan to install laminate.  While we had everything torn up, we also installed a vapor barrier.  Hopefully that will take care of some of the moisture issues.  The cabin has never had a vapor barrier before, mainly because there was no way to get under the house unless you took up the floor.  I was practically freaking out while Bill was under the floor.  Old houses, you have to love them.

When we were in the mountains in April, the trees were still barren at the higher elevations.  The Piedmont was already green, but only the tiniest of trees were putting out leaves up above.  This trip everything was fully green.  It is amazing just how quickly things change once the weather warms a little.

Most nights the temperature was in the forties but daytime temperatures were in the sixties to low seventies.  (Fahrenheit)  It seemed a bit cooler because the wind was blowing 25 to 35 miles per hour during the day.  The wind would die down in the evenings, but everyone needed to wear long sleeves and a sweatshirt or jacket. 

Anyway, I'm back home now and ready to get back to a normal routine.  Sunday I will have the blog post and photos on curing saplings for making walking sticks.