Judy and Allen Diess, PSU friends of Hank’s, came to check on progress. Allen has promised to make some bookcases for the Great Room and Judy has already made one lovely quilt for a bunkroom and has fabric for a second. I had run errands in Portland and had forgotten they said [...]
p>Hank’s Ranch house is being constructed for not just a sister missing her big brother, but for friends and family and the good times ahead.
People make the trek up Mt. Hood to help out and check out activity.
Daughter Brook and family friend James Bass came up on August 15th and Brook remarked, as she has [...]
Mikey sealing up those drywall seams
I was slow getting up the mountain on the 18th and missed Stewart , by 5 minutes, who had been mudding and taping all morning. James, Mikey and Johnny were still patiently working away at sealing up the drywall. I think James and Stewart are to only two who [...]
Bill showing how the biscuit router works. Note how each board has its own destination label.
Monday, August 17th, I drove to Walport to check on the progress of the kitchen cabinets.
As you may recall Bill Crawford and Richard Schultz came up the mountain to the Project and hauled off many of the shorter pieces [...]
People kept saying: once the drywall goes in you’ll feel like you can image what the finished interior will look like. It’s so true.
Monday morning, August 10th, Stewart (who spent the first 20+ years of his construction career doing drywall, before he became a general contractor), Jimmy, Todd and Jeremy started on the drywall. Stewart doing the cutting, [...]