That’s how my song goes. In who knows how many years, someone will open up that wall and think 🤔 ????

P.S. the boots I did take out before the drywall went on.

From my comfy chair this is my view.

Another construction/coding/vacation has almost come to an end: tomorrow afternoon I will drive back to Houston.
Again a lot was done: 1st floor tiling, deck railing, staining western gable end, siding the south wall, framing the bedroom walls,
inside stairs and 2nd floor railing, chinking of 2 inner walls, 4 power outlets, 2 (Siri controlled) smart lamps, second sink bathroom installed,
beam and posts deck stained. although I had planned to do the wood burning stove and pipe and chimney, that didn’t work out due to long delivery times,
but it wasn’t really fireplace temperatures anyway: at night it only goes down to 68F (21C), and during the day gets about to 88 (31C) so not a lot of need for a fireplace.
The pictures below show how the outside looks like now:

Trucks are great for building, so whilst I’m still hauling 8’x4′ plates I’ll hang on to my 236000 Miles Ford F150.
But when the rough building is done, I might go for something like this:

Not as convenient as my F150, but what a cool ride.

A new find this year is Canyon Lake Marina and the Baja BBQ shack.

Arnoud and myself had a bite to eat and a few beers, whilst listening to live music: Jimmy Spacek was playing some pretty good blues.

Canyon Lake Marina is 10 minutes from my log home and serves good food with live music on the weekends.

Although not planned, Arnoud and me gave the master bedroom some walls. Starting to look like a bedroom.

Colors fade under the influence of UV light. And Texas has plenty of UV light,
so fading happens fast. The cedar that has gone up last year, (unstained) turned grey.
Today I stained the west gable end, again overcoming vertigo on a ladder on a three story scaffolding.

Here’s a picture halfway: Pretty clear which part I have stained.

After staining bottom to top, it looks like this:

Now only the extension needs staining, but I’m running out of stain too,
so another thing for next time.

Sometimes it’s handy to be an electrical engineer. For instance when you want to save on installation costs. Today I added two outlets and a lamp over the table. The light is smart, so by voice it can be dimmed, and set from cool to warm. There’s something cool about entering your home by telling your watch to unlock the door and then ask Siri to turn on the lights. A boy has got to have his toys 🤠

The one thing that I did not count on is the pre-drilled holes for power cables in the log walls weren’t properly checked; spent 1,5 hours poking a hole in a blocked log before I could get the wire in. Guess that’s why the quote from an electrician to do the wiring came to 10k. I’d rather spend an hour more and save 9K

Today was a good day. Started out with a run at Canyon Lake park, not too long as I wanted to do some Chinking as well.
And so I did. Almost finished the last pale, so I will have to order at least 3 more pales to finish all walls.
But for now it will have to do. The master bedroom is now for the first time not visible from the great room.
And I noticed how the R-value (insulation value) keeps increasing;
today was 87 degrees (30.6 Celcius) and inside it stayed very comfortable downstairs. Upstairs not so much,
as the roof still has no insulation, so it was above 90 upstairs. At night I noticed the same thing;
in the great room, it was comfy late at night, were as in the master bedroom (non insulated) it was pretty nippy.
I may put in an exhaust upstairs to let the hot air out when needed.
Below is the two now mostly chinked walls of the great room.

Funny how rope expands when it dries up. Notice the curves on the ropes in the picture below after a nice sunny day.

Yesterday, after a wet 24 hours with heavy thunderstorms and rains, the ropes were completely horizontal; I could almost play the base on them. I may have to engineer something to keep ‘m straight even when dry, as that offers a little more security.