rather than make this a real wide closet and loosing space due to the angles, I decided to make another closet and it will be a good linen closet. That board on the edge of the bottom sheet is a 1 1/4" temporary lip to rest the top sheet on, instead of doing a balancing act getting it in place.

This is inside the bedroom, facing the bath

My logger buddy Tyler, just brought me some nice logs. 5 altogether. 2 nice birch, and 3 pine. Yahoooo

I think I'll pull of the sheet rock for a while, and get back on the V-joint ceiling pine. This wall separates the bedroom and dinning room. The only thing this wall gets as far as mud, will be just the corner you see, and the other corner in the living room on that short door wall. Reason being, the dinning room side will be covered in log slabs, mitered on the corner for a return so I needed a definitive corner for measurements.

This is the bedroom, looking across to the bathroom. Love that scaffold I bought earlier for this kind of work. Could have been done with less seems, but that would have meant more sheets brought up the stairs and at my age, every step counts! ;-)

No one opening isn't higher than the other because on the prior pic above, you'll see a better pic showing differently. Amazing what camera angles can do.

Back inside this morning and finished this ceiling except for one piece at the ridge, and a 3/4 round molding to hide the edges like the end cuts (bottom right)

Slowly going up

Fall is in the air, and that means winter heat will soon come, and I decided the barrel stove was fine for what I needed last year, but it's time for some serious heat and got me an Ashley stove. These stoves are pretty popular with the old timers here, and one can see why. They are built well, throw out allot of heat, and last a long time.

It has a 2' firebox, meaning I can burn at least 22" pieces. It also has an ash pan. No more shoveling out ashes, just walk the pan outside to my covered ash can till its cold enough to spread.

Nice rugged cast iron air tight doors. Yep....... looking for 6-8 hr burn time on one loading.

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I've been needing to do this for a while now. Seems like the cool weather has me in over drive with sealing, putting the windows back in the barn so it can retain heat, and........ building this lumber rack. It's by no means a big thing ordinarily, but wanted to get some of that pine in with the dehumidifier going. So I made the brackets, cut a 2x3 and fastened the 5/8" bracket to them, then I drove a 6" log lag through the 2x into the wall. No fear of this coming down. I started ripping the pine to a rough size for rails and stiles and was stunned on the moister meter reading. The moisture meter showed the lumber at 16%. Mind you........this pine was cut a month ago, stickered then the pile covered in black plastic with the ends open for the prevailing winds. Located in the sun, the black heavy mill plastic draws the moisture out quicker than Mother Nature herself. Now in the shop stickered with the dehumidifier, I ought to be able to finish this down to 8% in no time flat. I need to build another somewhere, but don't have much wall space left. Excuse the mess please. I just don't have the time to set up the shop right just now ;-)