Building our dream home in the NC mountains

It's almost mid August 2011 and the love of my life and I are getting ready to begin a year long adventure building our dream cabin in the mountains of North Carolina. We're actually in Oregon, as we speak (8/11/11) wrapping up a glorious 10 day vacation with my wife's sister and brother-in-law at their cabin in the mountains.

Why the title "The Maple Tree Adventure"? Our property is on Maple Tree Lane at an elevation of 4200'...sounds like an adventure to us.

We've talked about this for a long time and now that it's a reality, we are excited to start the process. The process should take about 10 months. The build should be completed by next fall 2012.

Our goal is to offer up a blog entry daily. Some posts might include a photo, others may not. The adventure takes my wife and me in different directions for awhile. She teaches school and will finish out her career in June 2012 in Raleigh. I, on the other hand, will head to the mountains to get the cabin rolling in the next week or so (8/16/11).

Keep us in your prayers, leave your comments and plan to visit us next spring 2013.

Kent & Darlene
210 Maple Tree Lane
West Jefferson, NC 28694

(828) 406-4823

Monday, November 28, 2011

Back on the mountain

After a few days off for Thanksgiving, I'm back on the mountain. Lots of fog, rain, wet, etc. The guys have been moving forward until the weather came in and have sheathed half of the roof. I stopped by on the way in and took this photo of the garage side of the cabin.

As you can see or maybe not because of the fog, the dormer is framed and the sheathing (plywood) is installed on the roof.

We're expecting rain thru Wednesday. I spoke with Tim and he's on alert if the weather breaks ahead of schedule to get back on the roof.

The windows were to be delivered tomorrow but I'm going to see if we can take delivery Thursday instead. It will be dry but cold. Better than wet!

A quick note about Thanksgiving...it was wonderful to take a few days off and share great time with my family. We missed Marlene and Don but otherwise all of us met at Kyle and Olesea's retreat in West Virginia. The turkey and all the fixings were excellent. Can't wait to see everyone (Amy will be in Albania and will be missed) in Miami for Christmas...Santa will be in shorts I'm sure!

More coming,
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