Happy Turkey Day!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!  Erin and I have plenty to be thankful for this year.  Perhaps the freshest in our minds would be the fact that the sold the house on 31st last week (finally)!  While we are still not quite moving forward with our Windcrest property just yet, the fact we sold the old house means we are one step closer to making Windcrest a reality. 

Next on our list is to talk again with bankers and contractors now that we have sold the house.  Hopefully the market has improved and banks are willing to play ball.  It's just a matter of time before we are moving forward with getting the property updated!

As a side note, we smoked a turkey today that didn't kill any of the Schlect clan today.  We started the bird in a brine on Monday night and started smoking this morning: 

I of course didn't take a picture of the finished product, but everyone seemed to enjoy it.  When Windcrest is finished we may have to have a BBQ to break the house in and we'll recreate some smoked turkey to celebrate! 

Until next time, have a great Thanksgiving!

Love,

Fred & Erin

Live Edge

Bad news first.  The tree is officially too far gone.  There were too many summers of not enough water and last fall's work was not enough to save it.  The arbor specialist told us that we could maybe trim it back but that it would most likely not survive. 

Now we have a tree that has to be cut down so that it doesn't become a safety/fire hazard.   

So here's the good news, we are going to get the tree cut professionally and use all the parts possible in the new house.  We hope to use the base of the tree as our future family dining table (Click here for some examples using Google Image Search).  The tree is large enough that we could probably end up with enough good wood to do all sorts of other projects as well.  Tables, mantles, beams...any other ideas?

It's hard to tell how massive the tree really is without a sense of perspective.  Here's Erin being a 'tree hugger' so you can get a sense of how big the tree is: 

So that is our next project at the house.  We have a lead on a person in Cle Elum that can get the cuts done, but haven't contracted him out yet.  If you know of anyone that does live edge woodworking, drop us a line!

Until next time, here's a shot of the barn!

Time Flies

Erin and I went up to the house this weekend and realized it's been far too long between posts. Here's a look at all the snow that was dumped on Cowiche Canyon over the last week:

As you may already know, the lack of posts is due to the lack of progress on the house. We thought we would have been breaking ground by now!

Unfortunately we have been suffering from a few delays that will hopefully go away with time. So the house is now in limbo. With patience we can perhaps end up with a brand new house on the lower section of the lot (by the barn) so we don't have to worry about updating such an older house. We'd be further away from the road and can build the house we want. To not be boxed in by the prior foundation would be very liberating. But this option comes with a cost. We need to have a longer timeline. This blog may have been started with the intention of it running it's course in less than a year. Well we might just be around for a bit longer.