Log Cabin Affliction

This winter and spring I have stayed busy with work on three different old log structures. This is an affliction I have had since I was a young man. The passion I still have but in stamina I am lacking. 

Craze Cabin
 This past fall (2016) Waymon Craze and I started moving logs from one cabin site on his farm to another site to reconstruct a house for his daughter. We being two old men, worked kind of slow but with stedfast resolve. However, we persevered. The cabin is now back up and has a roof on it. These logs were first build about 1905 by the Holder family. 

Log Barn Purchased

In March 2017 I gained knowledge of an old log barn about to be destroyed near Stevenson, AL. I contacted the new owner of the land and procured for a sum of money the salvage of said barn. I hired the Bledsoe Brothers for a few days, and we deconstructed the barn and saved enough of the 1860's circa white oak logs to be used for some small structure as I see fit in the future.

  

McCoy Farm Cabin

The first of May, I hired Mike Prince and Brian Bledsoe to help, and we started work on a one room log cabin on the McCoy farm. We are going to rebuild porches on three sides and put on a new roof structure. This will preserve it for the future generations. This room of logs was built in the 1890's by a man named Tom Lewis. His family had a rough reputation; nevertheless he was a superb craftsman in every since of the word. I have been involved with many log structures and his workmanship has few equals. Therefore this cabin is still in very good condition. 

Year 3- Hay Bale Gardening

I made Becky some new salad beds from 2-55 gallon barrels cut in half and mounted in a frame that is movable 

Tomatoes growing on rotting hale bales. The hay bales were put in place in November and allowed to rot.

Lettuce and beets growing on last year's hay bales. Root crops do really well  rotted hay.

These tomatoes are growing on wheat straw to use as an experiment to compare hay versus straw bales.