Window frames and upstairs tilework
I met up with Stewart at JOIN, a project SJM is doing to create a space to help put homeless people back to work and in housing. It is on Halsey and 81st. Of course I got mildly lost. What did I do before cell phones? It was good to see Dan, Jimmy and Jeremy briefly. They are eager to get back on the mountain and make the deck happen. Amen to that brothers and sisters!!!!
Very pleasant to ride up the mountain instead of drive it. Also good to have Stewart’s ear for over an hour.
Mist all the way. We went in the Trillium Lake road. Stewart flipped the truck into four wheel drive but found it unnecessary to keep it there. The tire ruts were down to bare road, but elsewhere there were three to four inches of slush. Clumps of snow were falling off trees. We made it to the Project and Stewart backed the truck in to facilitate off-loading doors. Just as we stopped there was a big kerplunk on the the top of the rig. Stewart and I both thought we’d hit something, but we were STOPPED! Just snow falling off a tree. If we’d been 20 seconds later it would have landed on the ground.
Ever ponder about similiar situations to that?
Inside the house was warm. Without the ceiling fans (they are on order) the upstairs is more than toasty whereas the downstairs can be cool in the corners. The little space heaters in each room do their jobs. The interior window framing is simply fantastic…all of it with wood from trees once on the footprint of the house. They will all be clearcoated and “honey’d up,” making the wood tones similar to the ceilings.
Todd was working with Bobby in the upstairs bathroom, having installed the chair rail tile above the white subway tile and was starting on the harlequin (think Picasso) diamond tiles in the bathtub surround. The color of the harlequin tile is cappuccino and they alternate mat and glossy. James was in the Raven’s Nest loft sanding drywall in preparation for priming paint.
Upstairs bathtub surround with its mat and glossy harlequin tiles, chair rail and subway tiles
The tile in the downstairs shower had been grouted. That bathroom is so classy.
Mikey was back with Jack, Jack being back to his happy self.
I sat and watched a bit. Todd, Stewart and I discussed this and that: a back splash for the propane/electric cookstove that will be up against a fireplace wall — what is should look like. What the interior stairs will look like (wood all the way up – probably darkish in color — prefinished if possible). I have three inherited vacuum cleaners (one each from Papa, Aunt Ruth and Stepmother Helen) and am planning one for upstairs, one for downstairs and one for the garage. But I don’t want anyone to have to haul a vacuum cleaner up or down the stairs. Using an old fashioned broom, one will be able to sweep stair crud down the stairs and the landing and vacuum or sweep it up at the bottom. We talked hardware and doors. By the time I get back to the Ranch there will be a bathroom door. Good-bye honey bucket. Huzza. We also taked about upstairs carpet. The floor is going to be one color of gray carpet but there isn’t enough to do the loft. Fine. We’ll put in carpet up there that is sympathetico.
Corey, our contact at Parr Lumber, got laid off. Well, we have done out best to keep Parr Lumber in business.
The breezeway has blue tarps hanging on both sides to keep the snow off it since that breezeway is tile-cutting-central. It gives the breezeway an erie blue light.
Interior doors going to the outside are being primed so they can receive a coat of semi-gloss — easy to wipe finger prints from.
The back bedroom now has a door
Johnny playing his drums in the back bunk room. All the musicians on the crew love the acoustics
Johnny was working on the ceiling of the entry way. Absolutely amazing. I’m SOOOOOOOOOOOO glad we kept the old rafters showing, though Johnny has done much of the work to make them pretty, upside down.
This is Todd's favorite window. You can see the breezeway beams through it.
Entry way with its exposed old growth beams
Bill Crawford, cabinet maker, called to say he couldn’t get a trailer rented for Sunday so they will have to rent it Monday, load it and drive on Tuesday, a day behind what he and Richard had planned.
Jimmy drilling holes in concrete foundation to attach hardware for deck post supports
The fire is burning to rid site of debris. The blue rectangles are a reflection from the masked French doors
The cousins and partners were planning on coming up tomorrow to work on firewood but with the soggy snow everywhere I suggested they come another day, but, as I’ve said many times: we are running out of daylight. It will all work out.
Stewart and I left about 2:30 with stomachs rumbling and stopped at the Still Creek Inn where he had a jumbo burger and me a BLTA. By the time we finished eating the mist had turned to rain. What is it about the Still Creek Inn that makes that happen…increase aqua out pourings?
More yakking on the return trip and then a brief tour of JOIN. The projectis, of course, being done on a shoestring, trying to make it as “green” as possible, using recycled materials and bringing in natural light.
There is a piece of the JOIN project that is being rented out starting November 1st. A big room that will be filled with cots. I think it is called a 7 to 7 where homeless individuals and families can come in a have a warm place to sleep on cots at 7 in the evening and then be gone by 7 in the morning. I thank my lucky stars I’m not one of those homeless people. Stewart is putting a last layer of clearcoat on the chipboard floor tonight… probably take him 4 hours after a drive up and down the mountain. In spite of it being chip board it looks warm and inviting.
Here come some pictures, some blurry. It comforts me that I’m not the only one to take blurry pictures. Thanks, Stewart, for taking the upstairs shots.
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контроль движение I met up with Stewart at JOIN, a project SJM is doing to create a space to help put homeless people back to work and in housing. It is on Halsey and 81st…..