I live in Jarrettsville, Harford County, Maryland, in a log home built iin 1840. The logs are flat sides and rounded top and bottom. Distance between the logs varies because these are/were trees not machined logs.

I took the lathe and plaster off the logs and removed the chinking and daubing. Getting ready to brush the logs clean, preserve them, apply insulation and have them permachinked.

At the SW corner of the house as I was cleaning out the plaster keys that dropped between the lo