The Blueberry Bog Cabin

We moved to Seldovia in July '09. When we got here we were to move into Brenda's father's cabin. Trouble was, it was a 15x15 two-level cabin attached to a travel trailer. Worse yet, the upper story was a skeleton. The roof ply was on, but no metal. I had my work cut out for me. First was to tarp the upper floor to keep the eagles(mosquitos) out.



It took me about two months to get cash for materials, sheath the building, put on the roof tin, and move the trailer away from the cabin. Another month netted a 15x20 addition. Can you say Kitchen? Brenda was pleased. We moved in our nice range from the old house, (only thing we kept) and built counters and shelves. I also installed the Norcold fridge from the trailer. It's a little small, but fine for the cabin. Now if I could only keep it working. It is a cranky bugger.

When I built the addition, I also enclosed a 150gallon water tank. We haul water from town for now, and use about 3-5 gallons a day(we shower in town), so this lasts a little while for us.









I used an old propane water heater and a stainless heat exhanger and now have hot water from our wood stove. Currently we get about 20-30 gallons of 130 degree water for free. Hot and Cold running water! what will they think of next?