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View from near the top of the hill overlooking the lake. Eventually the cabin will be about here.

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Trees above the lake.

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This is the path down towards where the site for the cabin. Pretty luch and green now, but it'll be all mud once the construction begins.

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Michele's beginning to clear some of the bush & fallen trees. Soon we'll be able to start our land preparation

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This old trailer from the 70's was on the property. We actually used it while doing some of the land preparation work. I never would have thought so when I firts saw it, but it was quite clean & comfortable.

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Plenty of wild flowers in the clearing. Hope some will grow back once we're done building.

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Here's Major in a field not far from the property.

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The chainsaws are out, and here we're tackling a 90ft tall poplar. I think my saw got stuck.

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What do I cut next?

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It took us 3-4 days of tree cutting to clear the area we needed. Then we had to split the wood!

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Fortunately the only large trees we had to cut were some poplars, a few birches, and a trembling aspen, all of which are plentiful and grow rapidly. We only downed a few slower growth sugar maples, elms and ashes.

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Piling the logs in order to spilt it later for firewood.

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Once we split the logs, we have to stack up the firewood. After a day of this, I could barely move!

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Here, our helper is giving us a hand splitting the wood.

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Michele's stacking wood too - we made quite a pile. You see less than half of the 14 cords (or so) of firewood.

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Firewood after day 1

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The land is getting cleared out, and Michele's getting the brush out of the way.

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