Second Week In York

So, on Monday Bill informs me that Steve (the Elk man) wants to get in contact with us. As cell phone reception is non-existent in York, Steve leaves a message at the bar, they pass it on to Bill, who in turn is giving it to us. Steve needed us to stop over in the morning to split some wood for him, he said he'd treat us right if we could help him out.

So there we are at 8:30 in the morning, staring at a HUGE pile of tree (Steve cuts down the trees himself and splits them up to sell as fire wood). Thankfully he has a motorized splitter, thus removing the need for an axe, and a lot of the effort/work!

"Just work your way through towards the back," Steve says pointing at the pile of tree after showing us how to operate the splitter, "I've gotta go see a dog walking client, and then I've got another one this evening, so I like to eat around 4:30pm, I'll cook you dinner."

We wave goodbye to Steve and start to split up the wood. What looked like it would take a couple of hours, in fact took 7 (with breaks), but there was a mother fucking shit load of wood. Steve had said if we had any problems to go and talk to the neighbors, a nice old couple.

But, within an hour, the old guy had popped out to make sure we were OK, and the woman had brought us fresh baked muffins.

Fucking tasty fresh baked muffins.

Like I say though, we did manage to do nearly all of it before Steve returned. He told us to take a quick shower whilst he finished getting dinner ready. Dinner tonight was a kind of roast, but made with deer. It was fucking awesome!

White tail deer is my new favorite thing you can kill and eat.

Got to spend the rest of the week working on the cabin with Bill. This is really good work as it gives me a better idea of building a place when me and Candice get round to settling somewhere (see Candy blog: )

I've been insulating, paneling and trimming. I already know how to do these, but they're all good things to know how to do, and to see how people do differently. The cabin is coming along nicely, with only the kitchen and bathroom, plus a few smaller places, left to go. Then it's on to staining and varnishing. Should be completed by the end of next weekend.

Then, the weather starts to change for the worse, so who knows where the next story will come from...