Sherri

veggie trails that was just that one time...the pirates had me outnumbered

Some of those pirates give me gas.

Thanks, Rmncwrtr. We're hanging in there. :kisss: On the note of "picking up the pieces," here's a couple projects which were done using almost all salvaged, leftover, and recycled materials. Something beautiful can often be found in something broken.

Totally agree, S.C. My very first shoes were a pair of Five Ten Spires, size 7(39 1/2 UK), which is about the same as my street shoe size(I wear 7 1/2's for running). I found that the Spires were perfectly comfortable right out the box, and only after about a year did I consider them to feel too "sloppy" for me. Now I wear size 37.5UK in the Five Tens. But that wouldn't have been a good place to start.

Do you do windows? depends on the compensation A job well done is its own reward.

Do you do windows?

Does that count as cardio?

Oh Mr. Cleaning Hunk, my house has been very...dirty....dirty, dirty house. That's a good one, Rmncwrtr.

Our next door neighbor(in Sequim) has a custom embroidery business. She's good. Robin Reese, Hummingbird Embroidery. Ph: 360-477-2269 Don't know if the email address I have is correct(she used to be based in Kent so it may have changed): hummingbirdembroidery@earthlink.net

A good reminder that we can touch people's lives in everything we do, and especially if we do it well. Condolences to the family and all whose day she touched over the years.

Do they have spinning class in prison?

Thanks for the good thoughts, Sobo. I'll do that. :kisss:

I didn't mean to imply that they were. I just like making something functional into something beautifully functional. In the end, as far as code and craftsmanship goes, it usually ends up surpassing the spec way of doing things, IMHO. Something is wrong. But I'm looking for that smile.

Hey that sounds like a sweet plan, Chad. Can I help build the cabins too? Careful, Chad. Sherri thumbs her nose at code compliance. Creativty and code compliance are not mutually exclusive. I thumb my nose at lack of imagination.

Hey that sounds like a sweet plan, Chad. Can I help build the cabins too?

YOU guys are beautiful, too. :kisss: Thanks for the kind words--they go far in times like these(had a death in the family this week ).

Because you missed the rain? Nice work SG! Sounds like you had a great time and caught the RR bug! I bet we'll see you down there again before long...

Hey Saragrace You didn't bump into me because I wasn't there. I bagged the trip when the forecast began calling for rain Thurs-Sun...didn't want to chance wasting an RR pass on inclement weather. When it's nice down there, it's REALLY nice so I decided to hold off. I'm shooting for late Feb. Thanks for thinking of me though! Very sweet. And glad to hear you folks made it safely with the driving. You'll have to post up some pics and a TR so we can all enjoy the adventure vicariously.

Is that a pie I see on your windowsill? I'll be right over!

I'll tell her, Bug, but she's already got one. (Me. )

I work alone, babe. Nobody taking pictures but me. Sorry. Maybe if I had a big strong viking helper....

A builder acquaintance puts it another way, saying he designs bearing in mind the "ravages of a two-hundred-pound, drunken child". Edit: beautiful stove surround, but around here you'd definitely get nailed for the use of cedar in the heat shield. That does sound scarier. We'd get nailed for a combustible being in a heat shield here, too. But the surround is not a heat shield(which is a surround that uses an air gap between the wall and the surround material to reduce clearances so that you can put the stove closer to the wall). I've done that type, too, but not here. In this case, the entire surround fall outside of the mfr's and county's req'd clearance from combustibles. Camera angle may be making the stove corner look closer to the wall than it is. Thanks, though.

Hey, thanks Joseph. Here's one of the hearth mural. I used sandstone, tile, flagstone, and cedar.

These branches are dense and stout, more so than you'd expect from other woods of the same diameter. The delicate appearance is a deliberate element of the a design--I wanted the space between the branches to appear tenuous, like they were actively flexing toward/away from each other--not an indication of its strength, or lack thereof. The inspector isn't worried about them, but, you're right, DeC., there's a lot of specs to factor in when you embark on this sort of project. I always err on the safe side and "build for bear" as Kelly likes to say.

Actually a bit less than 4 inches apart at any given point. Keep in mind that they are not dimensional lumber that are perfectly in line and plumb to each other along their full lengths. Slight bows and bends in varying directions close gaps from angles other than what can be seen from than straight-on. That's what I love about this stuff, you can get some real illusions going.