11/30-12/2/04 I went up to the property for 3 days: Tuesday through Thursday.

I arrived at 12:30. There was about an inch of new snow on the ground but I was able to drive up to the trailer with no problem. I brought a new electric radiant heater with me and I tried it in the trailer while I moved in and had lunch. It was just too big to work in the trailer. There was nowhere to set it where there wasn't something too close to it and that presented a hazard.

I had figured it might be too big so I figured I could use it up at the building to make working a little more comfortable during the winter. I knew it would be a problem to have it running at the same time as the vacuum and a power tool, but I tried various combinations anyway to see what circuit breakers would blow. At first I popped the breaker in the power strip that distributes power throughout the cabin. Then I plugged the vacuum into an outlet ahead of that power strip and that popped the breaker down at the temporary power pole. Even though I have separate power lines running to the trailer and to the cabin, they are both supplied through the same breaker. With the heater running in the trailer, I couldn't run the heater in the cabin at the same time I ran the vacuum and the planer. Once I got all that figured out, I turned the heater off each time I used a power tool.

I sanded all the logs that were due for another coat of varnish and started planing the logs on the kitchen wall. I planed all of them to the left of the right side of the window all the way to the floor. Then I scraped, gouged, and sanded three logs and got them ready for varnish.

On Wednesday, I planed all the rest of the logs in the kitchen wall. Then I scraped, gouged, and sanded all the logs to the floor below the window and the top four logs between the window and the utility room wall. I swept up all the chips and vacuumed the walls and the floor. It's a lot easier doing these long unobstructed log runs than it was around the windows and PSLs. I got a lot of square feet of wall ready for varnish and it made the whole place look a lot better.

On Thursday morning, I cut, fit, and glued in the cove molding on the inside of the small dining room wall. Then I varnished the last four logs in the living room, ten more logs in the kitchen, the kitchen window frame, and the last coat on the top four logs and part of the loft beam. It is really starting to look nice in there if I say so myself. I left for home at 1:15.