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| That's not a kerchief on Jen's head. That's the color of her hair! |
Jennifer and Joe paused for a hearty breakfast this morning on what may be one of the best days of the rest of the year. They're busy closing up Jen's house for the winter. Today they blew a ton of cellulose insulation into the attic, using a rental blower from Menard's.
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| It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood. |
Turns out, they needed all the energy they could get, insulating a narrow attic is a hard, dirty job but someone has to do it. All in all, it went pretty well. It's handy having Menard's a block away. They were short nine bales of cellulose, so Stan made a dash for refills so the blower could keep blowing.
Later, Stan continued to sand down the 100-year-old boards salvaged from the interior house walls, then he filled the holes from the square nails and polished the surface to make an eight-foot counter top in a temporary kitchen set up.
It's a free counter top. . . if you don't count labor... which you don't when you've got a willing retired guy who finds such a project amusing. It's fun working with materials that aren't available anymore, he says.
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The dark board is the original condition of the 100 year old planks.
The finished planks under it have been glued edge to edge, holes filled. |
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| Closeup of project materials, before and after. |
