Rich and I got up at 6AM this morning and headed to Minneapolis for the Log & Timber Home Show. We've always been interested in log homes so decided it would be worth a little day trip.

Here is some beautiful cedar furniture. We really liked the drawer chests and armoires. They also had chain saw carvings of various woodland animals and the bear looked very similar to the one we got in 1998.

Here is one nice display of how the logs fit together and are weather sealed. Most of the companies used the same basic system with their own variations.

This cabinetry really caught our eyes. These corner drawers were really neat. The large drawers to the left were set up for plate storage intended for homes with no cabinets on the walls because of the desire to not cover up windows for those preferring the view outside the home.

Here's another nice vendor. He made all kinds of railing items, shelving, and various carving and display material.

Another beautiful cabinetry manufacturer; this vendor had every type of wood on display. This display would look wonderful in a log cabin! Another we liked used rough hewn cedar for the main material.

We decided we had visited every vendor and decided to go have lunch, think about any more questions, and then go back if we needed anything else. We walked outside and found it was snowing so we decided we better get out of Minneapolis before rush hour. That turned out to be a good decision. When we were out of the city, we heard on the radio that I-94 was closed in the area we had come from due to many accidents.