Strip, shingle and oak cabinets.

apples the bears didn't get

My back feels much better,  I tried so many things to get it back to normal. One thing for sure is that I couldn't lie around for long,  I had to get out and walk around.   I laid on a heat pad,  I stretched, rolled on a firm roller, laid around on an inflated ball, bounced around on my toes, hung from things. It seamed like I was trying everything, I guess what it needed most was time and water...drinking more water is so important.  One day I took the loppers and cut scotch broom that was encroaching on a pair of wild apple trees next to a maple and some oaks. After that session it started to improve.

choosing paint colors

I finished stripping the paint from the ceiling in the music room, hallelujah! The only thing left to strip now is a couple of doors. Alex worked his mudding skills over the sheet rocked walls and Becky is hard at work sanding and priming. She has picked up a half dozen paint samples to try out.

ladder scaffolding

I started shingling a wall at a clients shop. I am using western red cedar #1's for the wall and placing them in a random pattern rather than straight courses. I love the look of shingles. For a square (100 square feet) they run about $250, a square is four bundles, this project is about two squares of shingles.

face frame and side panels

I am moving along with the oak upper cabinets. I had to order a 3/16 rabbeting bit because the plywood I got to match the existing cabinets is only that thick, (it is actually a hair under 3/16) so I got an 1/8 inch bit too. Face frames and side panels are glued up and have finish, door frames are made but need panels and carcasses need to be cut out of melamine.

Tweeked back, oak cabinets and more paint removal.

Flat on my back with a heat pad underneath feeling shocks of pain in my lower spinal area if I move wrong. It is a good time to write, a bad time to work. Of course this happens nearly every autumn. It seems like it is either my knee or my back that is giving me problems lately. As soon as my knee started feeling better from that skate session at the Eureka skatepark my back started acting up and I don't think scraping paint from the ceiling helped it any.

Smokey September Sunset

Before getting back to scraping paint I started building upper cabinets out of white oak. They are supposed to match existing cabinets in an Arcata rental house. I haven't used oak much, it seems very stable... and smells good too. The face frames are glued up and the side panels are made. Doors are next, they will have curved top and bottom rails so I will have to divise a jig for a flush cut router bit to get smooth curves in this hard wood.

Oak Mortise and Tenon

Whenever I came to a good stopping point on the cabinets I went down to the house to hang drywall, spread some mud and strip more paint. I have a new heat gun just like the last one and I am nearly finished with the ceiling in the music room. I probably would have finished today but I decided to take a break before I cripple myself, I feel pretty  close to it right now. I think I want to sport a cane for support and to be able to stand up straight. Or just lay here and listen to Pandora.

Just a bit more paint to remove.