Hickory cabinets

Cabinet door made from hickory.

Another door

Bonnie paid a visit to cabinetmaker, John Battershell's shop in Hicksville OH today and was pleased with the progress on our cabinets. They will be ready next week though we won't be ready to have them installed at that time...but it won't be long!

John doesn't often have a customer who tells him to build their cabinets with his scraps...the pieces of hickory that other people don't want...the pieces with the darker colors, knotholes, and the more interesting grains, and Bonnie felt he was almost as excited to be building these cabinets as we are to have him doing them. If we haven't mentioned before in this blog, the reason John was chosen to be our cabinetmaker is that his brother, Tom, has worked for Bonnie for many years. Tom suggested that Bonnie give John an opportunity to quote our cabinets. We certainly didn't expect to be able to afford custom-made cabinets, and especially not hickory, but it all worked out. The cabinets will be the focal point of the cottage, the first thing you will notice when you walk in, and they will be the star of the show. Everything else we have chosen for the cottage...paint colors, flooring...were chosen so that they would not detract from the cabinets.

We continue to wait for resolution of the claim for the ice storm damage to the camper. The insurance company has settled with us for the damage to the Portable Porch. They claimed to have never received the estimate for the damages to the camper which Roger faxed to them 2 weeks ago. Roger was kind enough to fax them a second time yesterday morning along with a copy to Bonnie. According to Kathy's conversation with Roger on Monday, he feels that the camper will be totaled because the cost to fix it is so high. We hope to settle soon and will not, of course, be purchasing another camper but will, instead, put the money into the cottage.

Jonathan already has someone who will be wanting to move on to our lot at the campground this spring. Bonnie has offered to sell those people the small storage building and deck still on the lot. If they do not want it, we will move them to The Farm. That would entail taking the deck apart which is something we would not relish doing. And we would be needing to do that in a timely manner so that the new campers could move on to the lot.