Alone in the Wilderness Page #3
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I rafted them up, and moved them down the lake to my beach.
A good pile, but I doubted there would be enough.
Today I would secure the roof poles over the gables.
Soon I would be ready to saw the ends and fill the slots
between the pole butts.
It's June 18. Everything looks as though it had a
bath last night.
Must have been a good shower, and I never even heard it.
A check on the livestock this morning before
going down to the roof job---
---a few caribou cows and their calves just up country
from Low Pass Creek. Nothing else in sight.
Should be a bear passing through one of these days!
These should be called squirrel frustrators.
Give those characters an entrance end they can ruin a cabin.
I finished filling the slots between the roof poles
Any place I could get a table knife blade in, got oakum.
Next was a job I had been thinking about. A countertop,
some window ledges and some shelves.
I decided ripping them with the ripsaw was the answer.
I could go down the middle of a log five 5" in diameter
and 42" long in fifteen minutes. Couldn't complain about that.
I think I have sawed nearly everything I need.
Now, to trim the edges and start building.
I need a fish for supper. So I took the fly rod down
to Hope Creek.
The grayling were feeding greedily. Fins and tails swirling
all over the surface.
A fish snapped the fly on the very first cast.
A handsome grayling.
17 1/4 inches long. Enough for my needs.
It's July 2. After a peaceful trip down lake i located
ten spruce tops.
I was anxious to try making hinges for the door.
I worked the wood to shape with an axe and a draw knife.
Now to saw the fork and butt end.
45 minutes and I had my hinge made. Not bad.
I put some finishing touch on the door planks I made Sunday.
Now the door is ready to put together.
Too many men work on parts of things.
Doing a job to completion, satisfies me.
My roof poles are still too wet for the tarpaper,
so I will work on my double-deck bunk.
Four posts with two rails on each side-
-and two small and two large on each end.
I augered 1 1/2" holes and trim the rail poles to fit.
Now when I get some glue, I'll knock it apart
and glue it back together.
With a few leftover poles, I built myself a chair and a bench.
It's June 27. A good rain it was last night.
Today would be a pole-hunting day.
I need about thirty to make the slats for my bunks.
After peeling the poles the wind came up strong.
It brought rain and furrowed the lake rough as a cob.
This lake can really change its personality in a hurry.
Like a woman!
All smiles one minute, and dancing in temper-tantrum the next.
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