The next major phase of the build started in June of 2011. We arranged our second and final supply drop party, rented another helicopter, and moved another several thousand pounds of all kinds of STUFF to the build site, which was delivered right to the front door. We brought up redwood to build the deck, a claw-foot bathtub that Tim had procured for installation on the oceanfront cliff, paneling for the interior walls, floor insulation and wood flooring, two queen sized beds, kitchen counters and a sink, several dressers, and a few tables and chairs, among MANY other things.
We had now entered the era of STUFF EVERYWHERE! Holy crap, the STUFF was everywhere.
By the end of the 2011, we built a beautiful deck with no railing, which we lovingly referred to as the infini-cliff.
Side note: My dog, Darwin, was a big fan of napping in the sun at the edge of the infini-cliff. That was his jam. And as far as I know, he was the only infini-cliff casualty during the no-railing days. One day during an epic nap he rolled over in his sleep and promptly fell about four feet to land on his side at the edge of the cliff. He had a bruised ego but was otherwise fine.
The deck changed everything! It’s definitely one of my favorite features.
The cabin was almost unbearably cluttered for a long time after that second helicopter drop. Boxes of furniture and tools and nails and screws and gloves and paneling and flooring and so much more STUFF was EVERYWHERE. Until the deck was done, we also had all the redwood for the soon-to-be-built-deck stacked in the cabin. And we constantly moved all this STUFF from this corner or side of the cabin to that corner or side of the cabin while we installed the interior wall paneling or worked on other interior projects.
But that beautiful deck gave us some indescribably awesome breathing room, and it gave us a new workshop with a view.
