day 228: doors

the garage is now a spray room for the doors.


the master cabinetmaker is on site. uncle steve works on a door jamb. we ordered pre-hung doors.




a finished door. we ordered these 3-panel, solid-core doors from interiordoors.com

day 215: landscape

mom demonstrates how to use her edging tool in the dining room.


dad puts a second coat of paint in the living room.


back-filling continues.


excavator smoothes out the gravel with one swipe just to spite my shoveling efforts.


brooder coop, your days are numbered..


dad wants to turn this trickle of water from grandpa’s spring into a water feature. he figures he will name it Homer’s Folly.


i want to use these giant cut stones for the water feature. but there’s no time this week.


the ground is rising, but there’s still a lot more to do.

day 188: painting

painting continues despite the heat wave.

day 186: slate

brian tiled most of the kitchen floor yesterday.



mom's handiwork on the screen porch ceiling. painting in all the grooves of the barn siding ceiling was a bear.