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For those playing along at home, the short wall to the right is in and all the sheathing is on. I got the copper door pan today but won't put that in place permanently quite yet.

Milo & Otis took a big step towards enclosing the new shop today. We framed two of the three walls with rough openings for double doors and a 4x4 window. All studs are old growth straight grain Douglas Fir that I salvaged from the house my brother is about to tear down. Straight and sound and fun to work with. Tomorrow we will build the third wall on the floor and then plop it into place with the sheathing and clapboards already on it because there is no room to work between the rock wall and the framing over on that side.

The coloring looks weird in those photos. I forgot to mention that is burrata cheese on arugula greens.

Inspired by Doug, I made a focaccia recipe from the NYT -- focaccia with herbed honey plums and prosciutto. The dough didn't rise as much as expected but it was delicious.

I built my sister a redwood clad mailbox stand Then Steve and I tried to dig post holes in dry, compacted dirt before hiring a guy named Sergio to do that task. We set the posts with a high tech expanding foam product made by Sika that worked great. It is in a bag with two bladders that you pop to combine and then pour in the hole. It works very fast and was set in three minutes. No bracing and waiting for concrete to set.. The best part is that Home Depot had marked down these bags from $10 to $2.38 and when I checked out they were rung up as $0.01 each. Two cents for footings is pretty cheap.

That looks delicious and makes me want to go stand in line at Liguria Bakery

Hand pie then?

Baking thread is a good idea and that is a tasty looking start. Do you call that a pasty?

And...it's done. We'll, the concrete part. Steve and I need to build a wall, put in doors and a window, get a little electrical done, and then start making sawdust again. This time with a serious dust collection system and air filter in place.

That's sad. RIP Dr. Smith.

Is that a banana? 🤔

Have a great one and hope you're getting pampered on your big day. Cheers!

Happy birthday Steve! Hope you are feeling well and have a great day. Cheers!

Moar steel and a vapor barrier.

Chorizo & egg brunch tacos

Correct! The contractor thought the extra steel was worth the small difference even where he could have used 3 or 4. The lally column on the left that is hidden behind the wood brace was wrapped with rebar to really tie it in. Both columns were undermined part way so that they key into the footings under the foundation wall. The temp posts and beams will come out when they remove the forms from the shop side of the foundation wall. The new slab will be tied in as Steve described and will top out five inches below the top of the foundation wall. A big improvement over the prior garage slab that ranged from 2.3-3" with no rebar and the lally column pads were just on dirt.

Further along in converting the garage to a proper shop, they poured the concrete for the foundation wall today. I had to leave a mark while it was still wet...

Have a great one, Jim! Cheers!

Sorry for your losses Mikey and Beefy.😢

Hope it's been a good one Stretch! Cheers!

That really sucks. Almost ten years battling cancer without ever disclosing it. RIP Norm

Happy birthday! Cheers

I've also been introduced to Avishai...

Did you survive?

Back on topic: Guilty on PBS Masterpiece. It's Scottish, so it's not crap! Recommended.