Fortos Fort: Roof Project Complete!

After nearly three weeks of ring around the collar work, the roof project at Forto’s Fort is complete! As with any home project, we went WAY over budget–almost a 1000 bucks. That was to be expected. If you are a frequent reader of this blog you have read my stories about the famed Forto’s Fort. […]

Fortos Fort: A year in the life

Forto’s Fort July 3, 2010 It was July 3, 2010 at about 3 pm when my daughter, Nicole and I landed in Alaska on a cool and very rainy Saturday afternoon and we pulled into the driveway to meet realtor and friend, Dave. We had pretty much bought the cabin sight unseen in mid-June on […]

Fortos Fort: New Roof Project

Well we are knee deep and 40 feet in the air on the new roof project at Forto’s Fort. We worked for the last several days and can confidently say that we are well over the halfway mark. It is good that my son, Tyler, is up in Alaska now and he has been a […]

Forto’s Fort: Bearing of Crosses

Ognuno porta la sua croce Every man has his cross to bear Basically it means that everyone has to carry their own burden/responsibilities in life. So with Tyler up in Alaska learning to do things that he has never had to do in the ‘big city’ I think the picture is a poignant example of […]