3 June 2012

Installed the cedar edge trim and finished getting the right-hand door for the south doorway all sanded and ready for stain and hinges.  Felt like building the woodshed workbench instead of working on the left-hand door.  Sometimes it’s good to be the boss!!!!  So spent the balance of the morning building the bench and a shelf for the chainsaw and associated paraphernalia, all made from “scrap” wood that was destined for the bonfire.  Just color me green!  The workbench is strong enough for a 160 pound idiot to jump up and down on.  The shelf, on the other hand, protested a bit when sat on by that same idiot.  After lunch, resumed work on the left-hand door.  Got the Advantech sheathing on, then installed the door latch.  When I built the right-hand door yesterday, was so proud that this geriatric Ivy League educated pseudo-carpenter remembered (from back in early May) that the door latch was to be installed exactly 36½″ above the door’s bottom edge.  No need to take the (literally) two steps to measure what I’d done on the south doorway doors, I REMEMBERED!  So I got the latch installed on the left-hand door this afternoon and thought that something just didn’t look quite right.  Took those two steps and discovered that the latches for the two north doorway doors are 3½″ higher than the latches installed on the two south doorway doors.  The measurement (36½″) was correctly remembered.  Where the measurement was from was correctly remembered.  Where the measurement was to…  Bear in mind that once the cedar is put on the doors (e.g., the right-hand door for the north doorway), the latches are in place forever, ‘cause the cedar covers the heads of the carriage bolts used to hold the latches onto the door, and that cedar ain’t never coming off if the Liquid Nails construction adhesive people have anything to say about it. This little faux memory pas will, of course, haunt my dreams for the rest of my life.