My week off project...

My boss said to take the week off this week because we can't work on our next project yet so I decided to turn my cabin inside out. Doesn't look a lot better? I thought the blue kinda looked funny and I would rather have just natural cedar and spray a transparent oil on it. So I took all the siding down, pulled the nails out and twisted the siding around and nailed them back on. It took a good old two days. I really like it a whole lot better and it makes it more like a real cabin. Actually, it looks really beautiful! With all the knots on the wood makes it look rustic. I also installed my cabinets in the cabin, even though the doors and drawers are not made yet and I am glad I put them in before making the drawers and doors because it turns out I need to put in shorter drawers because the ladder is in the way and shorter drawers would work with the ladder there. I should be making the counter top, doors, and drawers next week when I go back to work so I can work on them after work in the shop. Soon as I get my next paycheck, I will definitely buy a stove because it gets cold in there now!

The cabinets are done.

I just laquered the cabinets I am building for my cabin today. They are made out of birch, same as mom's cabinets except mom's are stained. I just put a clear coat on mine to match the cabin. It has been a very rainy day today(Saturday the 22nd) so I did bike today to Mt. Pleasant and up to the Whispering Pines road(25 min. climb) just outside of Mt. Pleasant this morning about 9:00. Then rode back home and as SOON as got in the car, it started raining like heck and it kept raining for 4 hours. Talk about pure, pure, pure, luck! I hope Tony and everybody didn't get rained on at the Dew Tour today. I was going to the BYU game today with my counselor but there was no ticket for me. I am really glad I didn't go because I would have been miserable in the rain all day. I had more fun working on my cabinet and riding my bike in the morning than go to the BYU game anyway. The Dew Tour would have been fun too but not in the rain! Maybe the events in the Energy Solutions Arena, it would have been fun.

Another weekend project: the starting of cabinets for the cabin....

I just started on my cabinet for my cabin today by using a 4X8 laminate sheet my boss gave me the other day. I did this today after my big road ride with about 7 other riders, there are a lot more road riders than mountain bikers! It is sad, because mountain biking is a better sport. Anyways, it was fun then I decided to put the bottom cabinet together today and I was planning on putting the top cabinet together too but I ran out of time, maybe I will do the top cabinet(cabinet for dishes) during the week next week. My boss ordered some birch for me to use for the face frame, doors, and drawers last Friday. I had to pay for that though, he's going to take that out of my next paycheck. The birch wood is coming this Monday so I will be able to get this cabinet done pretty soon. I will have to work at my work in the shop to do the doors and drawers. I can do everything else at home. So, next week, I will make the face frame and skin the cabinets(the 3/16" birch plywood on the sides). So, piece of cake, I think I can get these cabinets done in a few weeks. This is a fun project and will be a boost for the cabin! I am going to put the refridgerator and a little microwave on top of the bottom cabinet and put dishes and stuff in the top cabinet. Put other stuff(who knows what?) in the drawers, for sure I will put a garbage can inside of the bottom cabinet. I can't wait to see how pretty it will look in the cabin!

My first cabinet job...

We just finished and installed the cabinets in a house in Centerville. This family lost their house last year by fire. So the contractor built a new one on the same foundation where the old house used to be on. They made the foundation bigger and built a bigger house. Always have fire insurance. This house is big and has 3 large garages with plenty of storage shelves. The owner paid $30,000 for these cabinets and they are very nice ones too, made out of oak and has swinging chairs with the bar. We put the chairs on too. The kitchen countertops was a 10 hour day job. The bathroom cabinets we did too but I didn't take pictures of those so I thought you would like to see the kitchen though.

Here's the picture of the screen door I built...

My next weekend cabin project...

After working for a while, now weekends are worthful to me because they are more funner and more worthwhile when you are working at a job. So my weekend started Friday morning at 10:30 a.m. because we were done with everything we wanted to get done and I already had 39.5 hours logged in. Anyways, I went down the lumber store and got wood, screendoor hardware, screen, and one gallon of polyurethane. I built the screen door and it took mostly all day and it works really great and looks really great with the cabin. It looks like it came with the cabin. I designed it so it looks like a pioneer type screen door. Then on Saturday morning, I went on another road ride with Stever Brown and Brian Whipple. Then after my ride, I varnished the floor, bunk beds, ladder, and the screen door. I put 2 coats of polyurethane on the bunk beds, 3 coats on the floor, 3 coats on the screen door, and one coat on the ladder. It should last long and keep everything from getting scratched.

Speedy came to our house for the first time and he is one heck of a great dog. He really likes to be around people. He really likes me and likes to be petted. He is really well-trained. Everytime I went someplace and came back, Speedy barks and thinks I am a burglar, well that's what normal dogs do too I guess, but he actually taps you on your knee everytime the phone rings, most dogs don't do that. I think that is really cool. He doesn't beg for food at the dinner table and he just sits there when you eat. I wish Sandy was like that because she is like crazy when it comes to food. Well, I got a picture of Speedy in the bathtub so I hope you'll all enjoy the picture.

Well, still more to do on my cabin, a new cabinet, a new tv stand(will make the cabinet and tv stand), fix the little part on the ceiling, get a stove, I got a fridge though, a little one I can put on the cabinet to put drinks in, and I will build a new wood porch with railings and a fancy roof over it next spring. But I got to get all the interior stuff done first. Oh yeah, I will buy a wood chair with a leather cushion on it from Wal*Mart I looked at the other day. It should be a really sweet cabin and everybody will fight over it when everybody comes and visit I hope.

That good OLD freezer...

This freezer was given to mom and dad from Grandpa Harold and Grandma Jo and it has been running ever since dad was a kid so it's got to be at least 55 years old and Hello! It is still running! I wonder when it will ever break. Dad and I were talking about that we should put dad in the freezer when he dies and bury it at the cemetary and plug it into Wal*Mart next to the Ephraim Cemetary. That is not a bad idea, it would save us a lot money for a coffin. Dad would love it because he would be frozen solid until it breaks and then he can deteriate. Dad said to put a coat on him before we put him in it.

Labor Day Weekend Project

After spending all Saturday morning during Labor Day Weekend riding road bikes with Brach Schleuter and Steve Brown to Milburn and back, I decided to do a little project in the cabin. I built bunk beds. I spent all afternoon building them and they are strong that a 300 pound man can sleep on it. It is sweet. They are built to perfection. That way, when grandkids can visit, they can sleep in the cabin. Now 3 can sleep in there, 2 on the bunk beds and maybe one or two can sleep in the loft. They can sleep in it during the winter AND the summer, the cabin has an air conditioner and it will have an electric fire heating stove. I will buy that sometime before winter so the cabin will be ready. On the second picture you can see that I resanded the pine wood floor, there were some spots that looked bad and needed to be resanded and revarnished. I will buy some polyurithane, maybe two gallons of it and revarnish the floor and then varnish the bunk beds also. It should look beautiful when all this is done. There are still a lot of things need to be done in the cabin, I need to redo the sheetrock on one spot on the ceiling and new a new cabinet in the corner. I might buy some kind of nice soft chair for the person to sit and watch tv, a cheap chair though. I don't want to spend a lot money on the cabin but it will look really nice for guests to stay in it.