15 September 2014

Finally trundled out of the RV at 9… sure is nice being able to sleep as late as I want vice having to be ready for work at 7.  Cut and installed the ⁵/₄ x 1¾″ KOMA pieces that bridge between the window / door / corner trim at the top of the sauna building walls.  Then gave the soffits, fascias, feature strips, window and door trim, and corner trim their final coat of paint (Valspar Medallion White 4300).  Put on the 6″ insect screen at the top of the walls (keeps critters from getting down into the Home Slicker behind the cedar shingles) and was just starting the bottom pieces when… I found out that I hadn’t bought as much screen material as I thought I had on Saturday.  In project transition mode, went back up towards the woodshed and found a UPS package in the garage… the light fixture for the sauna.  So installed that light, discovering in the process that yesterday I had put in the switch upside down.  Problem easily fixed.  Lake temperature is 68° and the water level is 16″ below the top of the dock.  On Saturday I put five very dead wooden pallets out by the road with a spray-painted FREE sign on them.  This evening they were gone.  My neighbor across the street, Dave Todd, said he put a whole bunch of poplar wood out awhile ago, and it sat there for months, until he changed the sign from FREE to $20.  The wood then disappeared overnight…