Masonic Order
During Elizabeth’s last visit to the cabin site, the masonry crew was just about finished. The dry stack veneer, applied to the outside off the chimney with various degrees of enthusiasm by several apprentice bricklayers, had reached the ground on the face and corners and was almost complete on the sides.
Although most of the chimney is covered with Dutch Quality Stone dry stack, which is not stone at all, but an artificial stiff apparently made with cement and cinnamon sugar, Elizabeth had asked the mason to incorporate a couple pieces of the shale that were dug up last summer from the foundation excavation.
In the living room, the hearth stones and the veneer is complete on the fireplace, which had several test runs before the heating system became operational.
We decided to go with a low hearth for the woodstove in my office, with the same drystone veneer as used on the exterior chimney. The barn board is already in place over the poured cement walls of this basement room. These pictures were taken just over a week ago, so I’m hopeful that the last few bits have been completed now.
[If you want to see all the entries for the cabin building project, they start here. The next Building the Cabin entry will be Amish Barn Raising.]