Few more garage photos

Progress.
Progress.

Almost there...

Down to the last row of my last log pile!

Finished walls! Not too bad for less than a weeks worth of work spread out over a month. Lumber for the truss's under the blue tarp in the foreground.

First pattern truss cut and layed out. The truss's will have an 8' x 16' x 36' room in them. This room will hopefully be used for some storage and a store/office for my log work, furniture, lamps, clocks, etc.

Silly Boys

Wrangell and Archer are morning boys.

Stryder eating beets.

Wrangell trying to keep up with Stryder.

Wrangell likes to chase stryder with an old caribou head.

Stryder finally got brave enough to touch the dead caribou head.

Archer is rearing to go. I think he really wishes he can get up and run around with the boys.

Archer is starting to get some baby fat. Everyone says he's so small, but he is about double his birth weight a few months ago.

Some begining garage photos

Setting up the bandsaw mill we borrowed from a fellow Pensylvanian turned Alaskan.

Just finished moving a log with Roger peeling them in the background.

Matt moving more logs. We milled over 300 8-16' logs for the garage.

Showing Roger how to set the mill while between logs.

Three days of preparation for a garage slab. Leveling the pad with sand. Laying out 2" of foam. Laying out vapor barier, Setting slab and footer forms, laying out remesh, rebar, and pex tubing.

Footer and half the slab completed. It was much easier this time than when we did the house. We bought the cement and had trucks bring it. The hard part was getting 5 yards of cement within 30 mins and rushing to work it out.

Finished Slab.

PIcs of the Kiddos

Archer is starting to smile more and more!

Archer enjoys listening to his brothers make lots of noise. He is also a morning boy.

Two eating carrots and one reading a bible...

Archer while still in the hospital. He was awake and observant pretty quick.

The joys of a large cardboard box.

Boys with new hats and ballon creatures... Waiting for Matt, Kari, Harlie, Grandma, and Rog to arrive tonight (Archer too, but what a surprise!) What a day that was.

Took the boys out to fill up the Black Bear bait station. I guess it was exhausting work.

Stryder holding Archer in the hospital.

Pictures from the Sheep Hunt

Fun on the way out. It was pretty good this year... not too terribly wet, just normal tundra muck. Only had to use the winches a couple of times.

Our base camp at about 3600 ft elevation. We climbed up the hill in the background on the right several times for glassing sheep and hiking for them. This camp was almost 20 miles from the truck and over 100 from Tok. We were out in the sticks a little bit.

Beautiful weather on the way in... it was also beautiful on the way out. Tanada Peak sticking up in the background.

A shot of Roger on the way in. Mount Sanford in the background... over 16,000 feet tall.


We didn't bring any sheep back. I was hunting with my bow mostly and we didn't see too many nice rams. In total we saw about 4 rams and 60+ ewes and lams, and one 55+" moose.

Homestead work

Here are some pictures of several of the projects we've been working on this summer. It has gone by in a blur.

New Arctic Entry. It will be a nice big room to hang coats, snowpants, boots, shoes, etc.

Root Cellar in the crawl space of the Arctic Entry.

We had a pretty good garden this year for the lack of sun light. There was no lack of rain. I think we only had to water a dozen times or so... We got about 8 bushels of Cabbage.

About 25 gallons of Carrots...

Maybe 250 pounds of potatoes from our garden, and about 300 pounds from a farm we dug potatoes at in Delta Junction. About 6 Bushels of Celery...

1.5 Bushels of Onions, and a large white pumpkin. We actually grew several ears of sweet corn, lots of beets, radishes, tomatoes, lettuce, jalopeno, cayane, and sweet peppers, squash, zuchini, etc. too!

We tore apart our log greenhouse this summer. I used the clear roof panels to put a roof over our front porch and basement door. It was so wet a few times this summer that water was splashing off the deck and leaking through by one window and puddling up in the basement stairs and leaking inside. We plan to make a lean to green house that is about 36x20 on the south side of the garage next spring.

In the background is our current greenhouse. It was a garage in a box we used last winter for the car. We put clear plastic over it and used it for a greenhouse this summer. It did quite well. This is how far I was on the garage last week. I finished the 10' walls last weekend and it was too dark to get pictures.

Here is another view of the garage.




This is a picture of the garden and front circle areas. I pushed all the stumps out with the dozer and removed most of the roots. This will make our garden area about 4 times larger than it is now...