civilized ku # 42 ~ once again, small is beautiful

Adirondack rustic in the making • click to embiggenOne of the totally wonderful things about living in the largest wilderness in the east is that wood is in plentiful supply so, when we decided to rustic-up (replace) our front porch, we have been able to 'buy local'.

In this picture, everything below the roof joists is cedar purchased from local mills. The cedar decking is from one of the 'big' lumber companies. The cedar posts and the rough-cut 2×10 pine header is from a 'nut-job' about a mile down the road by the name of Howard Aubin - our local black-helicopter, the government's coming to take me away today, hate the APA with a passion conspiracy freak. He doesn't smell too good either.

That said, he's as honest and hard working as the day is long.

In the true Adirondack rustic building tradition, we're kind of winging it, design-wise, with the porch. But with Howard so close and ever-willing to rip to order, it's working out very well. We get to a point where we haven't really thought ahead all that much and we just sort of make it up on the spot and then I run over to Howards and have him whip up whatever we dream up.

As I said before, small is beautiful.