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Finally, some real progress!


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No pictures yet, it's not -that- much progress, but at least it's no longer just sheets of primed and sanded wood lying about!

I went up to the Sonoma Coast to Bodega Bay and Jenner yesterday, it would have been a lot more fun if weather.com hadn't lied about the weather and if it hadn't involved so much time crammed in the back seat of a car. Bad knees, bad hips and a bad back + cramped back seat = bad news. Also, it was early enough in the season that none of the access stairs or anything had been repaired by park services after all the storms we've been having, so access to the beach wasn't great, or wasn't there at all. It was nice to get away though!

That, however, was why I didn't get to work on the house yesterday.

In any case, there are currently two walls and two floor pieces laying on the right wall on my desk in my room. I ended up propping up the walls with jewelry boxes because they were heavy enough to not be moved by unruly leaning floor pieces and had square corners, so that they wouldn't push anything out of square. Getting everything even remotely into square was a pain in the backside! It took me about 10 minutes to actually get it together and then another 20 minutes of fine tuning and nudging and taping things with masking tape and weighing things down with books and so on to get things what seems to be square.

I couldn't find a single one of my right triangles so I used a fresh 1/4 inch thick ruler from the box of promotional rulers my dad inherited from an old job. The corners of them are nice and square and with them being 1/4" thick it's pretty easy to use them as a judge of how square a corner is.

On my plate for tomorrow is gluing the front of the house on it and letting that sit to dry while I prep the next parts on the list. I don't know how much of that I will get done though, because there is a slight possibility I'm getting drug off to see Horton Hears a Who (exciting! :ohyeah:). If I do get to that point though, I will probably take pictures, just because it's exciting to me to see it taking shape!

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