17 March 2016

Left Fern Lake well before dawn, towing the trailer, and arrived back in Springfield 8¾ hours later.  Light to moderate traffic the whole way until I got to DC where, even at 2:30 on a Thursday afternoon, there was stop and go congestion everywhere.  Hopefully this was the penultimate time of having to put up with that nonsense.  Sonny was at the new house all morning back-priming the poplar boards.  He got about of the 1x4’s done before calling it quits for the day.  What, you ask, is “back-priming”?  These boards are going to be used for window and door trim.  If you don’t paint the backside of the boards (the side that will go against the wall), then, when the other sides are painted, the boards will tend to cup because moisture can enter / exit the unpainted wood fiber.  So, to prevent that, that backs of all the boards are coated with primer paint before they are put up.  Kevin also was at the house briefly, cleaning up the woodstove alcove stone and collecting his tools… plus the check I left for him on the alcove mantle.