Starting to build!

In November of 2010, we had decided on a design for our cabin. It was going to be an old-fashioned Pole House. (Rather than have me explain what that is here, google Pole Houses and you'll see some great sites) So the hunt began for poles - I assumed going in that there would be poles laying all over the place, right? Well, no such luck, apparently when power companies take down old poles, their current way to dispose of them is to cut them up into small pieces, and I needed 20 foot tall poles. So after searching craigslist for a while, I found a guy with (3) 50 poles which he cut in half and delivered for me. With the help of a backhoe and a few friends, the project began!

The digging was ridiculously hard as the ground proved to be basically solid rock. It took about an hour to set each pole:

But perseverance paid off and by the end of the day we had 6 poles set:

After a day like this the beer sure tasted great, and it was a beautiful sunset!