Saturday, August 31, 2024

We now have blinds on every window in the house, blackout in the bedrooms and light filtering in the rest of the house!

We bought these blinds before the tree fell, but we never got time to install them.  Now that the trim is hung, it was finally time to get the blinds up.  We made our bedroom window much bigger, so we did have to replace those blinds, but the rest fit.  
 

Thursday, August 29, 2024

New French Door

This is door number 4 in the back of the house, and I really hope it is the last.  We started off with the 6-foot slider that was there when we bought the house.  We shrunk it down to a 5-foot slider so we had room for switches and lights on the back of the house.  Then we decided to put in a French door instead.  Now, this one has blinds in the glass.  The problem is the swing is the wrong direction!

Monday, August 26, 2024

Dock Anchors

We've had a problem with the dock moving in the spring, after the ice melts but before we get it hooked up to shore.  Last year, it moved far enough to wind up on the neighbor's beach and the 2 pieces got ripped apart!  These 8 new anchors total about 1800lbs, which is what we have in the water right now. The new stainless chain will be here soon, so we should get these in the water this weekend.

Shed Loft

OK, so it's not as much a loft as a shelf.  As small as this shed is, it will be really nice to have additional places to put stuff.  I put a set of mounts on the other end of the shed so I can put another "loft" on the other side as well.  I just need to get the shelf board and cut it to length.

Saturday, August 10, 2024

Tree Trimming

We had the pine tree on the lake side and the locust on the left trimmed yesterday.  The branches were starting to touch the roof, so we decided to have them cleaned up a bit.  We took the bottom 2 rows of branches off the pine which opened up the view from the bedroom window.  We also had a bunch of dead wood cut out of the locust.