A little more each time

We were back up for a couple of more days between the rain and we managed to finish off two more walls. It’s starting to look pretty closed in so I’m fairly confident now that we’ll have the bunkie finished for this winter.

This is the corner we finished, the two dark spots are Lug tread bottles we have stuck in the wall for fun. We don’t plan on doing that to the house but the bunkie is a fun little building.

From this next angle you get the idea that it’s closing in pretty well. Next time we head up we’ll either work on those last two wall panels in the weather is good or we’ll put in the windows and door and put on the roof. I figure that with three sides and a roof done and the frame to tarp in the fourth side a little fire in the wood stove should allow us to lay up mortar even when it gets colder.

Speaking of getting colder I winterized the bee hives. Last week Grandmaster J helped me put the hive boxes in a tighter area and this week I wrapped them in builder’s paper, insulted the roofs and put up a wall of hay bales to help block the cold wind that blows in from Stoco Lake.

Here’s an awesome shot of the Ranger looking very much like a farm truck. (note the awesome bead seat covers!)

And the winterized hives.

I will probably put up some other wind barrier on the back side before winter but right now I want to be able to access to the feeders so that on warm days they can come out and get some sugar syrup rather than eating their winter’s store of honey.