RR day 6

I remember doing this; get up, eat breakfast, go to work, come home, eat dinner, go to bed.  It's called work and it's good to be reminded of it now and then.

Here is a view from the front of the new house.  It's really out in farm land (or maybe it's called ranch land in Idaho):

This is looking east, and you can just see some snowy mountains in the distance.  There are several ski areas in those mountains, which I was unaware existed.

I lucked out today and weaseled out of  the crown molding job.  The cabinets were apparently not designed to have crown molding, because the face frame extends slightly beyond the side of the cabinet.  This would cause a gap between the crown and the side of the cabinet and would also screw-up the angle of the miter.  You can see this gap in this picture:

The solution would be to add a shim piece under the molding that is the thickness of the face frame overhang, but we didn't have any material for the shim that would match the cabinet color.  This problem will have to be solved by somebody else after we leave.  Whew!

Carolyn and I were not idle, though.  She finished up sanding and painting the baseboards and painted the railing on the stairs to the master bedroom, and I helped hang some cabinets.  Since it was a weekend day, Patrick got a young helper out who had done a lot of the work previously on the house.  His name is Frisco.

Planning the new cabinet install

We screw it in

We also put up another shelving unit in the garage and I cleaned up and reorganized my shop in preparation for the crown molding job that never happened.



The big job tomorrow is mounting some spice cubbies alongside the micro wave.  This has some tricky aspects and we spent a lot of time figuring out how to do it, but Patrick came up with a plan and we will give a go. 

 Things are coming together and we think that after tomorrow they will be able to begin moving in. Don't tell that to Tracey, though, she is already moving in.

Oh, one more thing I did;  I reversed the lock on the "suicide door" so that you need a key to get OUT the door.  Everybody thought that was a good idea.