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Being unemployed hasn't helped my stress level much, but it's starting to have an effect on the various projects around here: I've got three four window sashes glued up.  nine eight more to go. I glued up two remaining cabinet doors for the kitchen Also the door of the island garbage pull-out Cut, assembled and glued ...

(Several of these are left over from 2007)   Replace all the windows.  (One down, six to go on the 1st floor.  Eight on the 2nd.) Kitchen 100% done. Pay someone to replace the roof.  Finish removing the asbestos siding. Strip, prep, and paint the exterior. Living and dining room built-ins. Laundry chute. New wiring ...

    One down, six to go.  The “prototype” window is installed and fully functional.  The exterior is primed but not painted; we have to wait for slightly warmer weather for that.  We have a test color picked out and purchased – ready to go.   Mom and dad came to visit for the post-Christmas week and Trissa was ...

Or... ''You can never own too many clamps.''   Nick's been busy the past few weeks using up all the salvaged fir we had left.  There's enough wood for the sashes, but we'll have to buy wood for the frames. He glued up all the pieces, put them through the planer, and then cut them to size. He then started milling all the joints and ...

Nick spent yesterday and the afternoon in the shop today. He cleaned up all the old fir that we have salvaged from the house. There were some old kitchen cabinet shelves and some old posts taken out of the walls. He cut them down to size and put them through the planer and they look great. We're close to having enough wood for the rest of the ...

So Nick and I are back to work and Phil has gone back to Wisconsin.  In all reality we won't be able to install the new window until Christmas time. That means Phil can be here when we do that, and it will give us enough time to prime the trim. (We are using the original trim for the windows.) Nick has stripped the trim, it just needs ...

Success! The window is largely complete.  It isn't installed; the sashes are currently installed in the frame, set up in my shop.  It operates pretty well - I can slide the lower sash up and it stays in place, and I can slide the lower sash down and it holds position too.  The upper sash tends to fall off about 1/8'' when it's in ...