Good Morning All. Clear and 49° here today. I like the new place with all of the isolation cones available. Apologies to Maxwell Smart!
Pleasant spring weather for us right now. The garden is coming along well and I picked some more spinach yesterday. Also picked parsley and stuck it in the freezer for later use. Parsley is easy, just pick, stick it in Ziplock bags and freeze. Spinach on the other hand must be blanched before packing into containers and freezing. Neither one survives when the temperature regularly gets above 85°, which will be here soon.
Sausage, hash-browns and sunny-side up eggs this morning Flo. Tell Mel not to break the yolks.
Thanks for all of the likes and comments yesterday regarding the switching maneuver;
Johnny, Guy, Karl, Rick, Garry, Jerome, Sherrel, James, Patrick, Chad, Phil, Paul, Curt, Tom, Mike, Ken, Chet, Joe. I'll have to do more soon.
Here's the latest update from the train shed. As mentioned yesterday, I completed the roof for the structure on Monday.
Now to work on the porch. Here I deviated from the instructions because I didn't feel that there was an adequate number of glue joints. The instructions even mention it but do not offer any alternatives, so I added thin strips of wood and recessed them to make things much stronger.
A little additional trimming of the supports was required but all worked out nicely. I think that this works out better than gluing to the edge of the joists.
While that was set aside to dry, I started on the covered stairway for the back of the building. They don't supply a floor and the door was not supplied. That aspect would be visible, but since I am rotating the structure, it most likely wouldn't matter. But I decided to use the solid door that I removed from the front rather than construct a staircase inside. That required a bit of trimming of the door opening for it to fit.
Added the supports and bracing.
No roof yet, but here it is placed but not glued in position.
Barely visible in this photo is the trim on the eaves that I also painstakingly did. I'll get a better shot of that today.
Today I will add the roof to the stairwell and attach it to the building. I will also begin with the porch rails, one of which is visible laying on the workbench in several of the preceding photos.
Patrick - You may have already gotten your answer, but I use silicon caulk to fill in those imperfect joints. Used to use joint compound, but found that it tended to crack when the wood expanded and contracted.
Greg - Prayers and best wishes for your BIL and his wife and family with the Covid-19. Keep your distance.
Chet - I agree that figuring out the switching movements add a whole new dimension to the hobby.
Today is National One Cent Day, honoring our penny. Sorry those of you from the Great White North, you don't have them anymore.
Everybody have a great April Fool's Day.