Time to catch up on all that has happened over the past week or so. Wow, where to start.? Maybe I’ll try to just give some bullet statements for a change….- Dick arrives from Colorado for the THIRD time to help work on the house, and we begin to work on window sills.
- Mother's Day was great. Mom "shmeared" Dick and Don in Scrabble Game!
- Can’t find the wood we want anywhere, but called Mike, our new neighbor who gives us a tip to call a friend of his. Sure enough, we can get hard maple sills at a great price.
- Drive out to a farm/sawmill. Buy raw boards, get them planed, use John Penny’s joiner to get boards in shape.
- Dick sands boards to perfection and we install sills.
- Mark and Morgan come out and start "texturing" our living area walls.
- Walls look great! More to come shortly.
- Dick and Don take the rough spruce tree post that we had milled by Mike Bridgeman to another new neighbor named Jim. Joanne Welling finds this neighbor for us so we can get the job done in a jiffy. Joanne and Rich know everyone!
- Lisa and Dick Norris come up from Portland to help (again). Dick and Dick spend all day staining our tongue and groove cedar boards, while Lisa and Debbie do endless amounts of cleaning up and go to the dump!
-Don "benites" the upper level windows using the scaffolding and gets the scene ready to install the new stairwell post.
- Kevin comes over and we remove the temporary post for the stairway and replace it with our new post that came from the spruce tree. Kevin works wonders again. Post looks great.
- Lisa and Dick drive to where Dick and I got our window sill boards and buy a beautiful mantle for their new fireplace. Dick helps out by sanding and finishing the mantle.
- Dick, Debbie and Don install the tongue and groove cedar in the ceiling of the awning in front of the front door. Then, finish the ceiling for the loft porch. Looks great!
- Photos not in order. Deb, Lisa and Dick shot reminds me of Wizard of Oz...
- Can’t find the wood we want anywhere, but called Mike, our new neighbor who gives us a tip to call a friend of his. Sure enough, we can get hard maple sills at a great price.
- Drive out to a farm/sawmill. Buy raw boards, get them planed, use John Penny’s joiner to get boards in shape.
- Dick sands boards to perfection and we install sills.
- Mark and Morgan come out and start "texturing" our living area walls.
- Walls look great! More to come shortly.
- Dick and Don take the rough spruce tree post that we had milled by Mike Bridgeman to another new neighbor named Jim. Joanne Welling finds this neighbor for us so we can get the job done in a jiffy. Joanne and Rich know everyone!
- Lisa and Dick Norris come up from Portland to help (again). Dick and Dick spend all day staining our tongue and groove cedar boards, while Lisa and Debbie do endless amounts of cleaning up and go to the dump!
-Don "benites" the upper level windows using the scaffolding and gets the scene ready to install the new stairwell post.
- Kevin comes over and we remove the temporary post for the stairway and replace it with our new post that came from the spruce tree. Kevin works wonders again. Post looks great.
- Lisa and Dick drive to where Dick and I got our window sill boards and buy a beautiful mantle for their new fireplace. Dick helps out by sanding and finishing the mantle.
- Dick, Debbie and Don install the tongue and groove cedar in the ceiling of the awning in front of the front door. Then, finish the ceiling for the loft porch. Looks great!
- Photos not in order. Deb, Lisa and Dick shot reminds me of Wizard of Oz...
-Deb and I celebrate again for having such wonderful friends!
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