... about those windows...

As mentioned before, the front windows of the cabin are 3 feet wide and 5 1/2 feet tall.  There are seven of them and they were actually built for the Thunder Bay City Hall about two years ago.  But due to someones unfortunate sizing, we hit a windfall and now have these beautiful thermal tinted windows to gaze out at St. Patricks Island with. 

Having those windows there made me itch to put them in...  so I got the go ahead to head out to Jackfish on Wednesday July 20 to start the process.  It was late when I got in so I started the next morning.  I was just finishing the first window when Wes and Opie showed up.  They brought with them a change in weather unfortunately, but we still got a big chunk of work done.  The rain started at about 3:30pm.  We thought it would come and go quickly but boy were we wrong.  It poured torrentially for the next eight hours.  We did have the roof on, but no top cap (Problem #1).  This meant there was a line of steady rain right down the middle of the cabin.  Problem #2:  all of the open windows meant lots of water coming in everywhere.  The need to stay warm kept us working though, and we actually put in all of the front windows. 

The boys kept warm in other ways too...

We decided around 9pm, that if the 4x4 trail wasn't washed out we would head into Schreiber for breakfast the next morning.  We did make it for breakfast the next day, then headed back and really got to work...

First the metal top cap on the roof of the cabin.  Wish it was done earlier, but now we have some rain protection.

Then we got it all together and put in the rest of the windows in about two hours.  The sun began to shine in beautifully and Opie remarked that its always beautiful on the day they have to leave Jackfish.  I stayed for one more day trying to put the sheeting on the gable end, almost complete.  By the end it really did look like a cabin; windows, doors, roof, and walls.  Finally shut in.