Couldn't resist a quick check and play with the lights...

Yesterday was much the same as the day before and about as interesting as well, watching sage green stain dry...
The one exciting bit was connecting up the ethernet socket. Slightly disappointed that the nice, sexy brushed metal patress box and face plate I'd sourced to go with the metal power sockets and internal conduits had a nonstandard profile, so the ethernet faceplate I already had didn't really fit. Never mind - a bit of stuffing and shoving and it nearly fit. Cut the spare cable back, keeping a generous length for futureproofing. However, my cable stripper is rubbish so I took out a significant chunk of thumbnail doing it.

Digging and trim staining today.  A joint effort created a deep enough trench in the corner to traverse the gap from the fence to the cabin. While Dave played with that, I got on with staining all the trim we'd need for the roof, and the storm braces.

I'm having a couple of days off around the Easter break to see if we can get me moved in to the cabin for work next week. The sides and most of the front still needed their second coat of stain, and there were some bits (including the underside of the roofboards) that hadn't had any stain yet.

Went out last weekend, just having had my first Covid vaccine dose (AZ), to tackle the second coat of stain. Bad idea. Got half way down the back with the roller and was absolutely shattered, so I soldiered on to finish the back then completely wimped out and let the vaccine do its thing with the side-effects. Dave did some more first-fix prep during the week involving digging trenches, laying "don't dig here" tape and such...

Guess the obscure link... Kermit or Kismet? Or actually, "It ain't easy being green..."
Dave hung the radiator during the week - he left the spirit level on it to prove it was straight, thereby showing we did have a little left to right drop on the main construction (damned pine tree roots). As we're going to need to get services out there at some point we did some preliminary work for laying the cables, involving the blue bendy pully things that drag cables through holes and tight little spaces, so now we have the armoured power cable laid in the roof space and ready to run out to the cabin, and the network cable ready for the same. I need to either put a wall box in or just add an ethenet plug to the inside end (preferred) and plug it in to the switch in our bedroom (which we've just upgraded to a gigabit one from a 100 mbps).

A weeked of doing fiddly bits. Not much to look at but a necessary evil. First job for me was going around the bottom edges of all the exposed logs with the green preservative. Great fun when you can't really kneel down and everywhere is a tight squeeze. Photographic evidence also shows how much I need a haircut...

Finally - a few days of clear weather with no rain forecast, and temperatures in double figures. Time to get out and at the office again so hopefully I can use it before we go back to the ... well ... office.
Warm enough for outer layer removal, no less...

It's been a while... Christmas has come and gone, lockdown is back. It's been too wet and cold to do much outside, as well as it being too cold for the preservative to be applied to the cabin. However, with the thermometer creeping up to a balmy 7 degrees, we thought we'd better get back to it.

Weather not quite up to the forecast - 3 degrees and misty -  but nonetheless, that roof is going on today. We continued with the roof boards from yesterday and had arranged for Tomas to come over in the afternoon (tier 2 - outside is fine!) to give us a hand.