This week we cut 28 logs in Elk Park, and hauled them to the building site. I now have the last sill log and plenty of logs to keep me busy for a while. While talking with Myles Carpenter Jr about what he learned while he built his log house, he said he would build the deck around his house before he started laying the logs on the walls. This would have eliminated a lot of work going up and down a ladder to scribe the logs. It would also have made it safer. I have decided to build the deck on the three sides as soon as I complete the installation of the sill logs. I will take a trip to Myles' log house and look at his deck construction for ideas on how to build our decks. 
Here is the third sill log going in. I slabbed the bottom flat, centerlined the log, and marked and drilled all the holes for the anchor bolts. Tomorrow I will scribe and cut the notches and bolt the log to the sill. I will then peel the last sill log and install it. Since there are no anchor bolts to align on the daylight end, the last sill log will go much quicker.
