August 5th through August 11th

August 5^th through August 11^th: Monday Chris was still tending James and Kirstin’s kids in American Fork and I worked on the house.  I installed moldings on the wall of the music/craft room, some moldings in the laundry to have a place to put hooks to hang wet towels, and I built out where the TV will go so that the cords can be hidden.  Moose helped me get all of the rollout tray parts machined and ready for assembly.   I drove down to James’ house and brought mom home. James and Kirstin had a wonderful weekend in San Diego with 2 other couples from their neighborhood.  

Moldings on the wall in the music/craft room.

Rail for hooks in the laundry room.

TV built out.

Tuesday I built and installed the shelves for the bookcases at the side of the fireplace and then assembled rollout trays or at least I assembled the sides and back and fronts. Mom went to work in the afternoon.  Badger and Moose helped me get the rollout tray boxes ready for painting.  After assembling the boxes we had to rout the inside and outside edges of the top of the sides and back and fronts and then sand them.  John B. stayed up all night and finished the caulking.  He gets more than an honorable mention for his help this week.  

Shelves made and installed for the bookcases.

Boxes built for the rollout trays.

Wednesday we got up early and went to our temple shift.  This is our first week back after the 2 week maintenance closure.  We had a nice shift.  John B. worked from home and then at noon he left for a backpacking trip into the High Uintahs with some high school friends.  They had a 7 mile hike before they could camp for the first night.  I am sure he slept well.  They do this every year.  I spent the afternoon sanding nail holes, setting nails and puttying nail holes that were missed by the kids.  Thursday Mom went to a conference to get some Continuing Education Credits.  I went into Salt Lake and got some melamine to finish the bottoms for the rollout trays.  I also stopped and got an 8 foot prefabricated Carrara marble counter top for the laundry room and the corner cabinet going into the TV room.  I finished cutting the 65 bottoms and the parts for the drawers under the window seats.  I am officially done with the table saw and chop saw.  I need to stop making saw dust and get everything cleaned up so that I can spray paint the moldings.  I tried to paint the rollout try boxes, but got rained on and had to bring everything onto the porch.  I spent the rest of the day sanding nail holes and getting all the moldings ready to be painted.  Moose, Badger and I went up and helped set up the table and chairs for a neighborhood party at the church.  We went to the Neighborhood Luau and had some great smoked pork.  We came home and Ellie and Badger had made a cake to celebrate Moose’s 14^th birthday.  So we all had cake for desert. 

Bottoms cut for the rollout trays.

Neighborhood Luau

Happy Birthday Moose.

Friday Chris started cleaning the TV, entryway, and music/craft room by sweeping, vacuuming, washing the walls and mopping the floors.  Everything needs to be really dust free in order to use an airless paint sprayer.  I spent the day putting and sanding nail holes.  I don’t even want to try and guess how many nail holes there are in the more than 2700 feet of moldings that have gone into this remodel.  In the afternoon, I did get the rollout trays painted and only got rained out once.  I had to move everything again.  Ellie and Moose masked off the TV room and it is now ready to paint the moldings.  

It's raining.

We had to move everything because of the rain.

Rain and the first set of boxes had to be moved to the porch.

Finally, the sun came out and I got all the boxes for the rollout trays primed.

Doors set up ready for paint.

Saturday mom and Jill worked washing down walls and cleaning up all the saw dust.  I installed a final change order of more moldings in the laundry room and got all the moldings sanded and ready for paint.  I painted primer on the new sheetrock in the front part of the house.  We went to see a movie with our good friends, Wally and Martha Cooper.  It was about half in Chinese with English subtitles and was filmed mostly in China.  It brought back a lot great memories of our two years in China.  Mom went late to the adult session of Stake Conference.  

New moldings in the laundry room.

New sheetrock primed.

Cabinets and windows masked off.

Sunday we got up and drove to Brighton Ski Resort and walked around Silver Lake.  It is so beautiful and peaceful there.  

Silver Lake with the sun coming up.

Mom and I at Silver Lake, Brighton. 

We came home and I made Swedish pancakes for everyone.  We went to Stake Conference at 2:00pm, President Eyring presided and spoke about prophets. We then had a great roast beef dinner.  I only got a little bit of the painting done this week,but we are making progress and next week we should be able to get all the painting finished.