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We finished our show Saturday evening and packed up. Took about 15 minutes to break down and we didn’t have much to pack away. Still have a few boards so we can cover last minute Gift ideas. Rested Sunday afternoon and today we’ll get busy on some engraving orders we took at the show.

We’ve got to cut three slab shelves today for some free floating shelves

 

Well, last week we drove 1400+ miles in two days. Recovered for one day. Spent another ripping stickers and, another unloading and stacking a PU load of lumber. Got a couple maple cutting boards and a few mesquite boxes to laser today. Part of tomorrow will be spent packing for a 4 day Mexican Thanksgiving celebration. One DIL is Mexican and, she and her extended family, do holidays in a BIG way. I'm already drooling just thinking of the Albonigas, lingua tacos, and menuedo, plus all the other traditional foods. I might have to pass on the Turkey.

Edited November 25, 20196 yr by Gene Howe

Got door skins glued on yesterday for both doors. Have to rout edges tonight and we are ready for a dry fit. Bottom cut is angled to match deck. Yeah it has a angle to it for drainage.

If I ever get to the shop am working on returning some of the offering plates from the summer project to make large bowls. Spent the after lunch time at the grocery store helping with the thanksgiving shopping. Now on hold with a credit card company for over 30 minutes to get done before shop time.  uuuuuuuggggh

Finished up with varnish on the picture frames today. Going to get glass tomorrow. Then getting ready for thankgiving with the family Wednesday.

Thanksgiving Day the wife and I will go see a movie.

Neighbor widow brought over some shelving lumber and some 1" X 2" to make web frames.  So yesterday, since it was about 70 degrees with bright sunshine, had grandson assist in building 2 floating shelves.  I did the finish sanding today.  Tomorrow, will get the supports made and pass them back to her.  Have another project for another neighbor widow to build a box for her recently deceased son.  He had many honor badges in the various clubs and in some church activities.  I am debating whether to use pecan or cedar.  Have plenty of each.  

Moment of truth for these doors I have been working on.  Dry fitted this evening.  Yeah fit was on the money.  Some tweaking to do and have to recess the hinges but the gaps will work out.  Once I get that all done I can drill the holes for the door handles.  Ran out of time this evening for that part.

 

Before skins:

 

 

Installed dry fit:

 

 

I can live with this:

 

Super nice, there, Gunny.  They fit into your overall scheme very well.  

Monday.....only bright spot today...was a road trip, to pick up 8bf of Ash....$6

 

Monday ended with a Migraine....Sunday?  Took Sunday off.....and Monday....

 

Might get something done on Tuesday...head permitting....

Somehow I was able to get the camera and computer talking again.  I have no idea what I did to make that happen.  I looked at all the settings, but they were where they should have been and I did not change any of them.  It just started working...

 

So, a couple pips.  First is the kitchen space with the cabinets in place.  I must say, I learned a lot - quite a lot during this process.  I learned on each cabinet, and by the time I completed the last one I actually had built up a bit of confidence in the process.

 

 

Over the weekend I hung some chair rail on the ceiling.  Just to make it (the kitchen space) different and interesting.  It actually does this and looks nicer in person than in the pic.

 

 

And where the string is in that pic?  Another piece of chair rail which provides a visual break between the kitchen and living/dining space.  That was also installed over the weekend and a light base built to hang a pair of pendant lights over the kitchen island.  Yesterday I completed the touch up paint to all this trim and in the afternoon BIL came over and helped me hang the lights and ceiling fan.  Today I hope to clean up this space and get the island moved into place and secured and wired back up.  I also need to go get a dimmer switch for those island lights - they are bright!

 

 

BIL, who is a retired electrician was pretty skeptical of the fan in the kitchen.  Said he never seen one, and had never installed one.  Told him that, IMHO, it makes perfect sense for a couple of reasons.  First, SWMBO spends a lot of time in the kitchen.  I don't discourage this as the results are usually quite tasty.  That space for her is comparable to the shop for me.  Why not make it as comfortable an area as possible?  Second, with the open floor plan most of the downstairs area consisting of living room, dining area and kitchen are one space now.  With a good sized fan in each area is evens out the whole space to avoid hot/cold spots.

 

Still no word on the counter tops.  After Thanksgiving I will be putting the floor covering down in this area and installing appliances.

 Looks great Cal, a well thought out plan. I like your idea to define the space on the ceiling. That fan is going to help spread the smell of goodness through the house.

Edited November 26, 20196 yr by DuckSoup

we have to close our windows in nice weather at dinner time, as the breeze can negatively affect the propane cook top burners.  imagine a fan would have similar effects.  if electric cook top, then no problem with breezes.  but propane/nat gas is the way to go if you have a choice.

13 hours ago, Cal said:

BIL, who is a retired electrician was pretty skeptical of the fan in the kitchen. 

I had one once and the only issue was that the fan blades, my ex wife insisted she had to have one it was soo hot, etc etc.  Well the blades were never cleaned much like the rest of the house.  Years later when I returned home from Iraq and began heavy cleaning the place I found the blades covered in cooking grease and dust.  I cleaned them up, they looked terrible, so I removed the fan and put in LED lights.  

Thanks for the comments fellas. 

 

12 hours ago, DAB said:

but propane/nat gas is the way to go if you have a choice.

 

Dab, no gas in these parts unless you get a big ol' tank in the back yard - not going to happen, on my watch anyhow...

 

10 hours ago, Woodbutcherbynight said:

I found the blades covered in cooking grease and dust

 

Good point there Gunny.  I will share this with the Mrs.  Reckon this goes into the category of everything having pluses and minuses.  I did get fans rated for outside use so they have plastic blades - that might coupled with an anti-static type cloth take care of things easier.  I can say this, since I have been in the construction mode all summer (and will likely be throughout most of 2020) that we have gotten on a weekly routine of dusting the other ceiling fans in the house.