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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 ...

A quick update about this topic.  The morning after my previous post on the subject, a man from U.P.S Store HQ contacted me.  He had read my post (is he a Houseblogger?  Is it his job to mine the internet for words like ''U.P.S.'' and ''destroyed''?)  and said he wanted to investigate our claim further.  He passed us off ...

01/18/2008 Update:  I have an update to this post, which I've placed at the end. 01/23/2008 Update:  I've made a second post about this, here. Once upon a time, when I was 3 or 4, my dad made me a workbench.  People are always asking me how I learned to build all the stuff that I do, and I can only attribute my skill to that ...

Nick's got all the pieces cut for the rest of the first floor windows and has done a dry fit. This week he will order the glass and after that comes, he will begin assembling them. I've been thinking about the backsplash in the kitchen and how high I want it to go on the wall next to the stove and in the baking center. I can decide, so we're ...

    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 ...

 Merry Christmas! Today was a wonderful day. We stayed in our pajamas most of the day and got to watch Atticus open his presents. Without a doubt, the best present was the one that Nick made him. What do you make a toddler? Something that has everything that they love to do: an outlet to plug things into (no power to the outlet), buttons ...

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 ...

Nick and Phil have been busy.  They say it's going a bit slower than they thought, but since this is the first window, they are being very careful. A wrong cut on this project would be a huge setback. Here's a picture of the profile of the stiles and rails: Yesterday they finished building the frame of the window... okay I think it's ...