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Today was the final day of my vacation.  It wasn't as fully productive as I'd envisioned, but I'll take it. Two items got fully crossed off the list today.  The first is #16, dining room speakers.  Earlier in the week I ordered the speakers, and they arrived two days ago.  This morning I measured, referred to pre-drywall ...

The drawer's are 95% done.  The boxes are all built and sanded, and four of them are installed and operating, sans drawer fronts.  I need more drawer slides and I'm going to order them from an online supplier tonight or tomorrow.  This morning Trissa, Atticus, and I got up and headed over to Rockler at 8AM.  We bought two ...

Today was the least productive day so far.  It's about 6pm and I haven't yet gone into the shop.  I doubt I will make it.  All's not lost.  As I write, Trissa is working on list item #7, ''3 interior doors''.  This morning we set up a second set of sawhorses so we could get two doors going at once, and she's on her ...

Scratch another item off the list!  Today I slept in until a leisurely 7:30.  Over coffee I decided I needed to accomplish at least one full list item, and the lowest hanging fruit was #17:  Cat door platform.  Allow me to explain. When we got our cats a few years ago we decided that they would primarly be outdoor ...

Today was the fifth day and midpoint of my 9 consecutive days off from work.  I'm tired from working 10 hours a day in the shop, but tomorrow is Thanksgiving and I'll only work a half day.  I need to regroup a bit as well as it is apparent that I wont be completing all of the items on my list.  I need to prioritize what to work ...

The cabinet doors are DONE!  Trissa says I can cross them off my list!         I was up again at my usual 6:20 and saw Atticus and Trissa out the door by 7.  My plan for the morning was to pick up where I left off last night, then to focus on installing all of the cabinet doors.  Last night after I posted ...

One of the items on my vacation TODO: list is to ''choose, purchase, install'' the dining room chandelier.  Sensing that I might need some help with this, my sister in law (who is an interior designer with impecable taste) sent me a note saying that one of her clients wants to get rid of a chandelier for ''quite cheaply''.  Here's a ...

I woke up at my usual time this morning, as if I were going to work.  I was going to work, but not downtown - down in the basement.  Once I got Trissa and Atticus out the door and on their way to daycare and school I sat down for a brief planning session over my morning coffee. I knew the main thing I needed to get done today were the ...

I woke up this morning feeling pretty under the weather.  So much so that I went back to bed and didn't get up until 11.  I didn't much feel like working on the house, but sometime after lunch I forced myself into the shop to work on cabinet doors. Last night we went to our friends Scott and Heidi's house for dinner.  This was the ...

Day 1 was productive but not overly so.  I didn't venture into the shop to work on cabinets because I feared that would take too much of my attention away from Atticus and Trissa.  Most likely I'll start on the doors and drawers on Monday when they're at daycare and work. Trissa and I worked together on two projects today.  The ...