Ice and Oak (no this isn’t a wine review)

For-real Winter has finally arrived, bringing us northerners back to math class to study that familiar equation:

Snowstorm

+ Sunny Day

= ass-crackin’ COLD

… but it’s a trade-off I’m willing to make for the boost of sunshine.

(that table in the middle of the room is new-to-me, a nice little gate-leg from the Habitat Restore. Cherry, I think, but hey, we can be open-minded.)

We drove up last Friday in the first snow of January, which was followed next day by about 3 more inches of snow. Part 2 of the formula played out as the overnight temps dropped down near zero. Glad to have new windows-furnace-heated basement floor.

Progress notes

from the Department of Code Compliance:

Stair treads for the lower flight are securely in place, and the newel post is next (then the railings, etc etc). I love those flamey patterns on the oak (medullary rays), and given how big the planks were from my trees, there’s lots of quarter-grain with that character.

and from the Department of Literacy:

I scored a set of six bookcase cabinets from Lumberstash in Mpls, to go into the front bedroom. My muscle-guy Behren helped haul them up.

Next steps: A little cut & pasting of trim pieces to tie them together and voila, the library/guestroom inches closer to completion.

finally, a note from the Department of Classics:

Philosopher and paradox-monger Zeno observed “You can never step into the same river twice.”

It’s always there and yet different every day.