It has been a long time

I haven't posted anything in awhile, since nothing has really happened in awhile.  Alex and I received the roof fabric but can't do anything with it until we can set up the yurt (this requires rafters) and see how we want to sew it.  The industrial sewing machine is waiting patiently for us to get our butts in gear and come use it! 

Scott and Zizi needed the cart back that we had been using to store all of our fabric and materials etc...  So now Alex's car is filled to capacity with a 106 pound cube of roof fabric and another 60 pounds of wall fabric.

I was really hoping to have this yurt up and done for when Mom and Dad come to Maine this weekend, but that is definitely not going to happen.  Scott hasn't gotten his act together yet so we don't have rafters cut (unless by some miracle they did them today) and we don't have a platform built yet.  I suggested to Alex that we buy a nail gun because it would be faster for putting the platform together and he was all like I want to see you explaining that to Scott.  Then he pointed out that he was going to use screws anyway not nails. 

I can safely say that I don't have a clue what I am doing when it comes to the wood aspect of this project, all I know is that I need a house. 

I had a slight meltdown on Tuesday when I realized that we would not be done, our cabin was making me claustrophobic, and I genuinely hate everyone who lives at Moose Pond.  It is a good thing that we don't have Internet at home, or you would know the full extent of everything I was thinking, which trust me would not be good to have written down.  Alex took it all in stride though making me a nice campfire and bringing over Noodle for me to pet. 

Now that I am ignoring our unfinished yurt, I have moved onto thinking about things that I can comprehend like furniture, and spending money.  My two favorite things.  Maybe I will even get to do some very expensive shopping while my parents are up.  We need a sink and a gas cook stove that doesn't require electricity.  I need like twelve bookcases because as Alex says, "I am deeply disturbed by the number of books laying near your side of the bed."  I counted and there were only 17 including picture books.  That honestly didn't seem too bad to me but apparently it is. 

Since our yurt is oddly shaped, and an odd height we are making all of our tables and furniture custom so that it fits.  This means that I will have the worlds most beautiful bookcases and table should we ever get around to building them.  I drew Alex some pictures of what I want the furniture to look like and he burst out laughing and told me that I really should have taken a drawing class when I was in college because those are awful.  I didn't think that the sketches were so bad, and they mostly got the point across.  Now it is up to him to make furniture that is as beautiful as my drawings...

I just had a birthday and one of the presents I got was Creative Memories Digital Scrapbooking software so that I will be able to make some really snazzy yurt scrapbooks!  Thanks Mom and Aunt Mary.  Now we just need to finish this endless project so that I can start scrapbooking it with photos and snarky comments...

Yurtingly,

Anna