My wife Cheryl and I drove out to the property this past Sunday for a day trip. We usually don’t do day trips but it was a sunny day and we wanted to go for a drive. I wanted to make some progress on removing the old yurt foundation in preparation for the square one for our cabin. You might be saying couldn’t I just make it work for a small cabin? We’ll not very well. Part of it was sinking and it uses lots of little beams in a configuration that wouldn’t work that well for the cabin.
We decided to take the ferry from West Seattle to Southworth and drive along Hood Canal for a more scenic route. We snapped this photo along the way.
boat house on Hood Canal - Photoshopped
We snapped the above pic on along the East side of Hood Canal. A Beautiful and often over looked area of Washington State.
low water level
Here’s the Yurt foundation when we arrived. It still had some linoleum left from the yurt floor. It measures 16′ in diameter. Held up by 13 large Pier blocks. I brought my impact driver and began taking the 3″ deck screws out. To my surprise the decking was 1 & 1/4 think tongue and groove, solid stuff and very heavy!
Slowly removing the decking and about 10 cross members. Our trusty dog Brodie guarding the platform in case someone attacks us from the woods.
Below is the view from the old yurt platform towards the edge of our “terrace” The outhouse has a composting toilet in it that works great and doesn’t smell
like most outhouses do. The structure in the foreground is a work in progress and will be a covered cooking area when finished. Now that the chainsaw is working
again I hope to make some progress. It’s been standing like this for over a year.
