Found -- Doing the deed -- Tool chatter -- Work party -- Cabin schmabin -- Heart and hearth -- Chim chim cher-ee -- Ray -- Settling -- Firewood -- A recipe for comfort -- Rain's coming -- Big mud -- Waiting and leaks -- The kitchen (part 1) -- The kitchen (part 2) -- Chris -- Anxiety in ambergris -- Barrels of un -- Glory in stairs -- Therapy -- Mike -- Rid of rot -- Trusting in trees -- The roof's last stand -- Blowing the top off -- The gun -- A good goodbye.

"Wit's End isn't just a state of mind. It's an address for a run-down off-the-grid cabin, 120 shabby square feet of fixer-upper Patrick Hutchison purchased on a whim in the mossy woods of the Cascade Mountains in Washington State. To say Hutchison didn't know what he was getting into is no more an exaggeration than to say he's a man with nearly zero carpentry skills. Well, used to be--you can learn a lot over 7 years of renovations. [This] is the story of those renovations, but it's also a love story: of a place, of possibilities, and of the process of renovation, of seeing what could be instead of what is. It is a book for those who know what it's like to bite off more than you can chew, or who desperately wish to"--