Sunday, October 28, 2018

Leafs and Cabinet


This weekend was full with two main tasks. Cheryl worked on making the front yard more appealing. She cut down some privets, which the neighbors have been complaining about. She also made great use of a leaf vacuum that we bought. Instead of blowing leafs around it sucks them up and chops them into little pieces. It creates a lot less dust than a leaf blower and collects them instead of just pushing them around. Considering that I watched the neighbor’s yard service company just blow leaves off their property and into common space, I am glad that we are not being bad actors and are cleaning up the leaves instead of just pushing them elsewhere. Unfortunately, I did not get a picture of all the work that Cheryl did, but this is what things looked like before she started cleaning up after the container got picked up.
The Container is Gone
With Cheryl’s help I spent most of the weekend fitting the base cabinets for the snack bar. There is a ledge along the front wall of the basement due to some foundation details so we had to cut out every cabinet to accommodate the ledge. It was a bunch of work, but we now have the snack bar cabinets roughed in and level. Next weekend will be installing a new bottom for the cabinets and installing them. It is a great feeling to see more base cabinets going in.
Level Cabinets


Sunday, October 21, 2018

Cabinets and such

This weekend we made progress in several directions.  First, the storage container that had been in our yard for years is gone!  I spent most of Saturday morning clearing out leaves and pruning back the hedge that was behind it.  As I was doing that, Ian was installing lights, outlets, and switches in the snack bar.  Saturday afternoon, we installed the cabinet in the downstairs bathroom.  Today we got the wall cabinets in the snack bar. 

Sunday, October 14, 2018

Biketoberfest

This Saturday was Biketoberfest, which is a fundraiser for the local bike coalition. Cheryl and I volunteered directing traffic. It was a great day, but cut into time to with on the house. We did manage to clear out the last things from the container on Saturday morning before heading to Biketoberfest. Hopefully the container will be picked up on Friday.

Today we spent the afternoon on more painting. We got a second coat on in the snack bar and the hall. The plan for next week is to start working on installing cabinets.

Saturday, October 6, 2018

Not quite 5 cubic yards

We had a dirt and rock bin delivered on Friday morning. I spent today putting the last of the dirt pile in the front yard into it. I would guess there was about 4 cubic yards left. It is wonderful to have the dirt pile gone. In total it was about probably over 14 cubic yards that the contractor we hired was paid to take away, but did not.

Mostly full 5 cubic yard bin

No more pile!

What it used to look like