Realism - more than Patriotism

[pbfoot]

Me and my wife are hoping to build a Timberhome or Log Cabin in the near future. Will see how that turns out...

have a friend that builds designs and sells then

 

[michaelmaltby]

One word. "Cedar". Not the strongest wood, but nice to work with and bug/ant resistant. When I did the 2nd storey I didn't want to carry logs that high so I framed with custom-cut 2x6 spruce and then "sided" inside and out with custom cut 3/8"th white cedar for a consistent look (and aging). I got some ants in the spruce and it's annoying (under statement)....

Log is warm in winter and cool in summer. And a basement is very worthwhile. Ours was easy because we're on 35' of sand down to the river .... even building above ground is worthwhile .. heat and storage.

I had never built anything but model airplanes when I started this project, and I was 41 .... it changed my outlook ... on just about everything.

MM

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

have a friend that builds designs and sells then

Does he have a website?

It will still be a few years before we are ready, but still...

 

[oldcrowcv63]

ok, anybody who thinks we should go to Canada and become MM's instant family - raise your hands!!

#4 on the Bucket List.

 

[michaelmaltby]

Friday, April 13: Tour stop The Three brothers Falls

Two kliks from the cabin down the old I.B.O. railway ** (abandoned) to the the falls, taking my sister 'The Queen' along for the ride.

** Irondale, Bancroft Ottawa RR

 

[Njaco]

Dude, you're livin' the life!!!!!!! I'm jealous!

 

[michaelmaltby]

Night, Night Visitors, and Rocket (von Panzer) on the Stairs

 

[Freebird]

Didn't realize until that trip that, next to the casualities suffered by the USA on Omaha beach, Canadian's Normandy landings were the next most strongly opposed and bloody. The Canadian late-war tank battles (post-Normandy and later, within Germany) among the most savagely fought...

There were Canadians at Normandy too?
(Sorry, couldn't resist, I've heard that a few too many times )

Of course, I have yet to forgive the Canadian Government or people for reducing the canadian armed forces to a common purple organization. What I ask was wrong with the RCAF, and the RCN? They both had magnificent traditions.

Idiot polititians I'm afraid.
But they will be gettiing the "Royal" back soon. 8)

I think I was 'forced' ( ) to endure canadian companionship last summer because so many americans couldn't afford the trip with our economy in the tank. I was fortunate to be there on 'business' ( = tax write off! ) Apparently you guys handled your economy in far more rational manner than we.

Yep, we believe Ninjas should be in crappy B movies, not as loans.

 

[Freebird]

I hope you colonial boys will be in London to help celebrate our monarch's 60th in June.
It is an historic day.
You'll all be very welcome.
John

We'll send over some of our brainless, spineless, wimp polititians if you'll promise to do some historical re-enactments up on Tower Hill.

2012 is the 200th Anniversary of the War of 1812 (between Great Britain and the USA). The war decided the fate of Canada. Canada won.

Yes, we won the war and we got to keep Quebec.

HEY!!! We was tricked!

 

[Njaco]

Canadian humor. Just don't get it. (walks away, head down, shaking from side to side...)

 

[pbfoot]

We'll send over some of our brainless, spineless, wimp polititians if you'll promise to do some historical re-enactments up on Tower Hill.



Yes, we won the war and we got to keep Quebec.

HEY!!! We was tricked!

debatable we also got the Brits and some of those can't figure out if they are Canadian or Foreigners now if we had listened to the Quebecers we would have never wasted all those folks in 1st war

 

[michaelmaltby]

"..... humor". That wouldn't be quite the word I'd use .... .

MM

 

[michaelmaltby]

First DRIVE IN to the Cabin, April 22:

River just above The Falls, Steps down for summer swimming , deer scat, packing in and out, sauna, and gate closed on the old RR roadbed

 

[michaelmaltby]

Friday, April 27: still -7 at night

Fire for heat. Ghosts of old railroads. POV east deck with "Jim".

 

[michaelmaltby]

Glacial ICE ... God's modeling sandpaper ....

Wood tones. Skin tones. Rocket von Panzer - missing on patrol - his first since last December. And, home safe in TO where the ferns are starting to pop.

 

[michaelmaltby]

Osprey back ...

... von Panzer back - 2 lbs lighter . Cook fire. Night cap on the upstairs west deck.

 

[Njaco]

I'm freakin speechless. I want, I want, I want........

 

[michaelmaltby]

Here's the thing, being in nature is a sure cure for whatever ails you ... spiritually speaking. Physically speaking - primitive life is hard - after the age of 55. Aches and pains catch up with you . We pay for our sins.

But my point is that being in nature is very good for the soul. And - as the cabin project illustrates - you don't need much $$$$ to buy freedom. You have to know what you want ... what makes you happy.

Pop Tart Whisperer - there must be some great, isolated barren lands in the Great State of New Jersey .... our place, which BTW I refer to as "Meander" - carries for less than $1,000. p.a. [obviously, no debt involved]

MM

 

[michaelmaltby]

Green - with a main course of black-flies and mosquitos

Trillium. Geraniums boxed. Power plant.

 

[Njaco]

Pop Tart Whisperer - there must be some great, isolated barren lands in the Great State of New Jersey .... our place, which BTW I refer to as "Meander" - carries for less than $1,000. p.a. [obviously, no debt involved]

Oh, there are......

http://www.ww2aircraft.net/forum/off-topic-misc/fantastic-place-i-live-11682.html

but with Philly and Atlantic City only 20 miles away in either direction, its still too close for comfort!