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Our cabin story...Continued

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In the beginning of June 2009 Pop and I loaded all the materials we would need to build our small cabin and clear out more of the driveway.  When we got to the site we found a lot of growth had occurred at our opening but it was not too bad.  So we spent the first afternoon clearing the driveway path of trees, shrubs and tall weeds.  That gave us enough of a path to hook the trailer to the atv and bring up all of the materials to the building site.   We spent our night at the Greenland Cove Cabins and started bright and early the next morning setting up the site.  We cleared the area to build on, leveled off the area and put our cynder blocks down.  We spent the rest of the day building our small cabin  By the time the day was over we had the cabin essentially built and just needed to tidy up.  We had put tar paper on the roof since we did not have the time or materials to shingle it and hoped for the best on our return.  

We made a second trip in June to bring the old dozer tractor up with Jeff and were hoping for nice weather that had been forcasted the week prior.  That trip did not go so well...it started off great though.  Nice sunny weather and I met Pop and Jeff at the Kennebunk Service Area nice and early.  We thought we were going to be in good shape.  Jeff's trailer came pulling in with a shredded tire and two other soft ones.  It then decided it was going to start raining on us.  We had to get a tire installed onto his trailer and new valve stems put in two other tires.  Company that changed his tire bent one of the axles on the trailer and it basically poured on us all day there.  We were at the service area from about 8:30 that morning to 5:00 in the afternoon.  By the time we reached Bancroft it was about 9:30 and it was pouring.  Our tarpaper job from the last trip had blown up in the wind in some spots and we had water coming into the cabin through the roof.  We did a quick fix for the night but it was a miserable, wet and cold weekend.  We were supposed to stay until Monday but left on Sunday because we were tired of all the rain.  We did end up getting the roof shingled, the floor boards installed, the outside boards installed, the folding table and shelves inside and the woodstove installed.  So although it was miserable we did get a lot accomplished.  Most importantly we got the tractor up there and had some gravel put down on the driveway.
 
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