End of Q2

 Here we are, half way through 2021... What?!?!?!

What's been happening? All the drywalling is done, finished, finite, and primed.  And in the case of one room, final paint is done and window trims are started.  

Final paint in the guest room downstairs, no bed, but you've got paint!

Window trims

Sealing up all gaps between the window and the wood to stop air movement...

Then the "jam extensions" window trims popped in.  Look so nice!

Now he is taking a break from painting and finishing and has begun working on the stairs.  We are going for a slightly industrial looking staircase, which should be a good contrast with all of the wood we have going on.  

The treads will be open and 3 inches deep each.  These are on order and are coming locally from Gold Beach and will be milled from local Port Orford cedar.  After they are milled they have to go to be dried, so it could be a couple of months before we get them.  In the meantime he is working on the steel frame and we will use treads from our temporary staircase to get us through.

Stairs as modeled by Mr. 

Two 12 foot long steel tubes are being used for the main struts.

The ends are cut (by hand as he says that is the easiest and most accurate way to do it) to fit the plates that he has cut out of steel sheet.

Feet or top, one or the other, cut from steel sheet...

Feet welded onto the struts...

Top welded on...

Then they are set in place, lots of measuring with laser beams to make sure they are level and then marked up

I'm thinking of skiing down them! simples.

Stairs will continue, next he has lots of angles to weld onto the struts which is what the treads will sit on eventually.

Things continue to move along, and we continue to enjoy the process.  The garden progresses much quicker than the house and the veggie patch is really doing it's thing this year.  We have also started working on other parts of the garden that we have plans for.  However, it's already July and I am sure we won't get as much done as we thought we would when we were talking about it in March.

Starting to harvest....

Catch 'ya soon - laters taters!