swschrad's Journal: all wired out and all sanded down

and tonight the last wall gets covered in tile backer board, then taped with mesh tape. carpet has been ordered for the two main floor bedrooms, one color of which will be manufactured friday and shipped next monday. we found the dealer online, in the shadow of the mills in atlanta.

brought a taurus full of oak lumber home after church monday, and if I have time tonight, will case forward several idiotically-sunken cabinets to the same depth as all the others. first brad nailer I bought threw three brads halfway in and then the coil burned up in white smoke. the replacement seems to be all there.

sorta figuring that friday I will do "proof of concept" countertop to test how I'm going to inlay the oak and bevel it back out again on the edge, including the rounded corners, and then this weekend actually build out the finished countertops. costs $20 a day to burn the diesel in the shop heater to allow working in below-zero weather, but it's better to do that in the garage than bring all the glue fumes into the basement.

next week, we're off from work, and the sons will be on hand to make the big push in completing the kitchen.