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 ⅔ 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.