Week 33

This last week Joel spent almost every day working at the fishing lodge. They got a lot done!

This is the view standing on the veranda of the lodge looking towards the kitchen with the pool in the foreground.

This is the outdoor kitchen with a fireplace. The roof is ready to be thatched. Some local guys will be doing that. 

The bridge coming into the kitchen. Notice the different hardwoods: sapodilla, cabbage bark, and bullet tree. There is no hammering nails through this stuff, pre-drilled holes with screws for everything. 

This is the support we built into the chimney to hold up the ridge beam.

This is the view from inside the fireplace looking towards the lodge. Notice the driftwood archway, they carried those a long ways down the beach to get them there. 

Notice the fish sculpture in the center of the fireplace, it's poured right into the chimney thanks to Myrtle's jello mold ;)  All the stone on the fireplace came out of the closest river and the stucco is the clay mix we used to make Jay's pizza oven. 

Here you can see the bridge, it still needs steps. 

Joel found this old log on the beach a couple months ago. It looked like a cool chair for the yard so he dug it out and brought it down the beach. It's about 2.5 ft round and 5 ft long. He sawed off the ends with a chain saw and found the old driftwood was some beautiful hardwood. 

Well, they needed a mantle for the fireplace so he told the owner of the fishing lodge if he wanted he could have it if he had it sawed up and Joel and Jay got the leftovers. 

Look what was inside! No one was sure what it was until it was sawed - turns out it's rosewood! Valuable even here. Now Jay has a whole bunch of 1x12x5's of rosewood, and Joel might be taking a small slice back home ;)

Saturday Pastor Kenny and a couple boys came out to help for the day. Their main focus was mowing and remodeling the upstairs. The realtor thought it was a good idea to stage it as a room since the people looking at it want a resort. So here's what it used to look like:

And here's what it looks like now! It turned out pretty cool and looks much more usable than it did before. They took out all the bunk beds and painted the walls by the bathroom and shower, and then did some decorating.

They did the same sort of thing downstairs, downsizing the bunks, cleaning, and making it look more like a room. It looks great! They also worked on mowing and the beach.

The showing is on Thursday so we're spending this week getting ready for that. And then a few day until Joel's cousin gets here! It's going by really fast.....