What I did on my summer vacation

[jeff_t]

We watched the sun rise. The speck on the right is someone's PWC anchor buoy. The speck on the left is a loon.



Cooked some bacon.



Installed a chimney.



Laid some tile.



Installed a stove.



Dug a keyhole pit. Still need to scrounge more rocks. The only firewood we had was some wet and punky pine I picked up out of the woods, so no cooking this time.



Picked up a 2/3 cord of beech, maple and ash this morning. Maybe some firepit cooking next time.




Also built a couple of walls, hung a bunch of sheetrock and a couple of doors, did some fishing, and biked a couple of laps around Mackinac Island and some other tourist stuff. I'm ready to go back to work and take a break.

 

[Grisu]

I'm ready to go back to work and take a break.

That's how I feel sometimes on Monday morning.

Great, tile job and stove installation btw.

 

[BrotherBart]

I got my sock drawer arranged.

 

[Jack Straw]

Well, if you did one more thing that we don't need to discuss here, I would say you had a perfect vaca!

 

[begreen]

I got my sock drawer arranged.

Gotta slow down here, yer getting ahead of me!

 

[Retired Guy]

I ordered firestarters.

 

[ScotO]

We watched the sun rise. The speck on the right is someone's PWC anchor buoy. The speck on the left is a loon.

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Cooked some bacon.

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Installed a chimney.

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Laid some tile.

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Installed a stove.

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Dug a keyhole pit. Still need to scrounge more rocks. The only firewood we had was some wet and punky pine I picked up out of the woods, so no cooking this time.

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Picked up a 2/3 cord of beech, maple and ash this morning. Maybe some firepit cooking next time.


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Also built a couple of walls, hung a bunch of sheetrock and a couple of doors, did some fishing, and biked a couple of laps around Mackinac Island and some other tourist stuff. I'm ready to go back to work and take a break.

The stove install looks fantastic, Jeff! And I'm a tad partial to the keyhole pit (as you know), that's looking good too! Make sure you post some pics of your cooking adventures on it!

 

[jeff_t]

That's how I feel sometimes on Monday morning.

Great, tile job and stove installation btw.

The stove install looks fantastic, Jeff! And I'm a tad partial to the keyhole pit (as you know), that's looking good too! Make sure you post some pics of your cooking adventures on it!

That is my worst tiling job ever. It was a hurry up deal. The place I got the grout from didn't have enough of any color that would work, nor did they even have a suitable sponge. I tried to mix two colors, which didn't work out very well, and I now have a mottled, camouflage-looking grout. Building supply places are few and far between. The closest HD or Lowes is about an hour.

Couldn't lug a tile saw up, so I had to cut it with a diamond wheel on an angle grinder, which actually didn't work too bad. Other than that, I suppose it's okay. I wanted to get it done while I had help to set the stove in place.

I wish I could have built a fire, but it was about 150° outside, with 900% humidity. I was more interested in jumping in the lake.

My rock gatherers are working on the firepit. The blocks were here from something. We dug them out of the leaves. They makes a nice even place to set the grills.

 

[pyroholic]

Looks like a typical vacation for a Michigander with a place up north. Looks good!

 

[firebroad]

Whatsa Vacation??

 

[Jags]

Whatsa Vacation??

It is the mystical practice of taking time off from work. I have only heard about it.

 

[Delta-T]

the time I got spotted fever I was on vacation for like 2 weeks. Jeff's vacation look like more fun though.

 

[PapaDave]

My first day of summer vacation...I woke up.