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I think you can replace the flag holder with a bottle opener and fix that.

Cant have too many bottle openers and the flag holder needs to be at the correct height. Plus the screw holes are not wasted that way.

I thought it was a bottle opener.

i like yer thinkin habitpro

Dave, As far as colors, I like the choice. At least your choices were pretty close. When we built our house, I wanted pale yellow, the Mrs. wanted barn red so the right choice was obviously red.

Those are some interesting gutter guards. What is the mesh made of?

and yer place looks great ryan, the envy of the hood

the gutter guards are a stainless mesh set in aluminum frame. variable mesh size is used depending on roof pitch (coarser for higher pitches) the only potential drawback is once the roof goes on you can never (easily) access the gutters again, but shouldnt need to. i have an "upsidedown" brush to help keep the guards cleaned off.

In Missouri, cabin decoration starts with coolers and locations of bottle openers.

Here is a picture of my cabin that was started a couple of months ago and should be finished by Christmas.

in a word...WOW

Freakin' off the charts! Holy smokes, James....how close is it to the pond?

This is the view from the front porch.

VERRRRRY Nice.

Anyone else look at James' cabin and wonder if he took a good look at LL2 before starting it?

I spent a day at ll2 and Bob and Debbie spent a day at the farm before we started the cabin. Ours is a much smaller version.

really nice james.....i expect to see blue bush lupines between the house and the pond next year

I could hardly call that a cabin. Very impressive!

Very nice Mr. Holt.. Is the grouping of trees on top of hill on the other side of where your "cabin" is being buit an old home site? Really impressive, would like to see it in person as I drive thru Gainesville to go to our place north of Muenster.. Below is our cabin that is about 200yds from yet -to-fill pond..du

David u you are welcome anytime. Dave I promise to make it happen I have your seeds on my desk. Thank you.

Whoa...a flurry of cool cribs. I...I...I can't take it....habitat overload!
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David,
More pics...more spec's. Is that real logs and chinking?

Hey Brettski, the cabin is conventional framing & then rough-hewn 1" x 12" layed on inside & out, then chinking applied.



The cabin was already there when we purchased the land, but it was a real selling point for us. They built the cabin near a creek in a native Pecan grove



It has an upstairs open loft for sleeping, otherwise it is one room cabin. IMHO, if I were to do it myself, I would have separate, walled-off bedrooms cause you had better be pretty good friends with whomever sleeps-over..

Way to go James, Tell Mrs. Holt she did a good job.

Otto

It may be small compared to LL2, but it looks darn big for a pond side cabin.

well after spouting off how cheap i am on dwights fly rod question to george, here's the cadillac of roofs going on.....

HOWDY DOODY its BLUE!

i actually think it looks pretty cool (even though i wanted green)

i'll be worm food when this roof fails.

and airborne-spark proof too, no?

very perceptive, yes, reason #1 for metal roof and cement siding.

I think the word "cabin" does not quite work for james holt's new getaway.

laid some pipe today.