Our main island project this year was to finish the demolition and debris removal of the old cottage.
Both our personal plan and actual new cottage plans are still pending with our complete intention of putting up something new.
We never lack comfort in our trusted cabin so are never at loss for lack of any "new" development(s)
All of the metal floor and the bulk of the fireplace has now been removed. Here we are down the last bits of the fireplace foundation.
I will never cease to be amazed of the amount of steel, carpet, tar, stone, block, siding, shingles, glass, cement, wood, stucco, concrete.... that was in this place.
Our complements to our previous island owner and builder of this cottage. Though not our style, the quality and what we assume, quantity, of work done at this unique location was an endless point of my admiration.
Support columns.
If nothing else, left the last steel floor support as my cross to a possible burial site.
There were a dozen or so of these columns. Some measuring in over 20" in diameter.
After scoring the concrete, got my frustrations out buy letting them have it.
Both Kate and I land filled the crumbled concrete. The centre supports goes on our, what is now rather large, recycling pile.
Past trips to the commercial recycler have yielded enough $ for a worth while trip to the local Dairy Queen. The pile of steel on the island now could mean some serious "Ben and Jerry's & Hagen Daz" all around.
After three summers, here I'm ready to toss this last piece of steel.
Then Kate and I will pile away the concrete and hope to move from destruction to construction.
