Walls and Well....All is Swell Again!


 Workers raise the cabin walls, fully revealing what was once just a paper dream, and the well is in -- 600 feet and 8 to 10 gallons of water per minute.
It seems workers inside the cabin are building sections for those at the outside walls to lay.











I have requested the house be set so corners, instead of walls, face cardinal directions. The "back" doors, are therefore closer to the road and drive than the main entrance. So by phone today the contractor and I talked about making the main entrance clear through porch steps at the end of the porch closest to the road instead of the long side, as usually is done. He also asked for the color for the roof-- hunter green, like the juniper needles. He also needed guidelines for bath and kitchen faucets (Delta), kitchen sink and bathroom fixtures as the plumber will come once the roof is on. All these questions tell me we are making much quicker progress now.

The NY kids were going to put the electric in, but are under a "no travel" mandate (Coronovirus). In fact my son-in-law has a pass permitting him to travel from and to work. So they will not be able to install the electric as planned;  the contractor's usual electrician will instead. So I need to be ready to discuss where to put minimal lights and electric stove plug (I won't have a stove, but the plug for one needs to go in now so that an electric stove can be installed in the future or by a future buyer). We will do the minimum required by Virginia Code, and the kids, when they CAN travel, can then switch out the kitchen and bathroom light for those they bought especially for the cabin.

"It's always darkest before the dawn," Gram Mable used to say. I don't know that last week was the darkest of the Juniper Field Cabin Build project. But it was a dark one, and the first hint of the Cabin's dawn, visible progress, is rising.   

--Photos by Steven David Johnson






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