We learned our lesson from the three little pigs...

My good buddy Dan, (my first friend I met in Fairbanks!!) is building a cabin this summer. He's doing a great job so far, even though he's still got a ways to go, I'm totally impressed with all the work he's done having never built anything this big before!


He rallied a bunch of people (mostly dudes, and I don't blame him...I'm pretty useless) to help him place his support beam and get some more of the walls built. As you can see, he had the help of Ed, Ted, Evan, Ben, Donald, Colin, me, and Julie!


Here's Dan directing everyone and trying to get the support beam in place. That puppy was heavy...much heavier than my bags I packed to go home...which is difficult to fathom.


After we got the support beam in place, we had Julie (above) and Trevor prop themselves up there to hammer that bad boy down.


And of course, in order to get boys to work...you need incentive...i.e. food. And what better incentive than Mexican food? That's enough to motivate an army...at least in my book. And evidently, it was enough motivation for Sky...


Motivation wasn't really the problem for me... it was more my lack of strength in lifting huge pieces of wood. So instead, I decided to entertain the troops...and as you can see...I was doing a horrible job.


So instead, they gave me a power tool....which, in hind sight....was probably a bad idea.