Fence (July 25, 2009 - March 13, 2010)

Well it only took about eight months but our pasture fence is finally done. It was "mostly done" by the end of August 2009. The one thing that still needed to be done was figure out how we were going fill in the twelve foot gap that was meant for a gate. We had considered several options but never committed to anything. I was going to build one but it would be incredibly heavy. We were going to buy one but it would be incredibly expensive.

In the end we came up with a fairly novel solution. The first eight feet is a removable panel that slides into the end post and it's anchored into a cement deck support on the other. Then the last four feet is a gate. We rarely need a twelve foot opening and when we do we can remove the panel and open the gate. So that's done now.

I've also hung the bathroom door in the addition. I think I'll take it down and try once more since it doesn't really close now... (This is why I decided to work on the gate today...)

Next...

Friday night we went to the Home Show in Lynden. We survived unscathed - thankfully we're too far along in our project now to make any major changes. We did come up with some more ideas for our next project(s) though. We enjoyed it and it was nice to get out after a couple of very productive and busy days.

Saturday found us running around Abbotsford and Bellingham. We were at the Abbotsford Home Depot at 7:30 a.m. because the ceiling fan that we bought at the Port Coquitlam Home Depot on Wednesday night didn't have the installation instructions with it. The fine folks at the Abbotsford HD opened up a box and gave us the directions. We also picked up some more trim and all of our electrical supplies there.

We were back home by 9:30. We unloaded the van and then headed to Bellingham. We went to the Bellingham Auto Auction for a little while. We didn't buy anything but had to leave when it became impossible for us to keep our hands down... Then we went to the ReStore, Home Depot and the Buyer's Market. We came home with a door for the bathroom and a folding door for the closet, also another gallon of white paint for trim (aka "next weekend's projects".) By the time we got home we didn't feel like working in the addition and ended up mowing the lawn for the first time this year.

Bedroom floor (part 2)

Floor's in; looks good - moving on...

Bedroom floor (part 1)

Today we undertook to get a proper floor in our new bedroom. Grace and I both had today and Friday off; she had picked up some laminate flooring last week and so there was nothing left to do but install it. There was actually something fairly important to do prior to installing the flooring. We had to find the subfloor. Witness the picture below. That's not a set up shot. That's several months' accumulation of tools, supplies, etc. which we never really quite cleaned up.
After several hours things looked like this. That's the subfloor. We hadn't seen it for a long time. It had lots of blobs of drywall mud and mounds of concentrated paint all over. After chipping and scraping for a long time we got things to the point where we could lay our flooring down properly.
We actually managed to put the bulk of the floor in today. I don't have any pictures yet but it looks great!