Carpet for the Loft

Hello friends,

Last weekend I took a solo trip out to Camp Freedom to keep chipping away at the interior of the cabin. My sister came down from her neck of the woods to join me, and it was a good thing. I don't think that I would have managed to get much done without that extra set of hands.

As soon as we finished paneling the ceiling over the loft (woohoo! ceiling is finished!), we hauled up the carpet. You remember the carpet - that incredible Craigslist find of a whole house full of carpet for free? Great stuff. As it turns out the largest piece just about completely fills out entire floor of the loft. How much does a 20x14 feet roll of carpet weigh? Just about enough to make you cry. But we don't cry at Camp Freedom just because something is heavy. No! We make harnesses and loops for our hands! We make all kinds of guttural roars, and sweat until our glands beg for mercy! With the rope, and more than a fistful of moxie we hauled the shaggy behemoth straight up the ladder, folded at the center, flipped the top half onto the loft, and inchwormed the rest of it up from the floor below. (It would have been fun to take pictures of that, but we had our hands full...)

It was a mighty struggle, but the end result made it totally worth it. The loft is now the Relaxation Capital of the cabin.

Somehow Monique ended up much more relaxed than me.

We still have a few spots to fill in. That will be the project for this weekend.

And while the carpet was non-stop fun, we did manage to get the wall at the front of the loft closed off with paneling. Well, about 90% closed off.... This never-ending task is a little bit further along. I'm sure someday soon we'll be working on another never-ending task, and will think back fondly, "Remember when we put up the paneling in the cabin? That sure went up quick, didn't it?"