Tomorrow morning, I should wake up to snow on the ground, and snow falling most of the day. <sigh> Seems a bit early in the season for such shenanigans.
By late summer, I had to face the fact that I was not going to finish building the interior of the JayBee nor have time before the advent of winter to tear down the old house and move the JayBee to its new location. This has meant that time I would have spent working on the JayBee had to be used on various winterizing tasks to ensure the old house survives another winter.
Before I shifted gears, I worked on the boards for the ceiling of the bumpout in the bathroom. After layers of stain and finish...
...the boards were ready for installation.
Installed!
As the fall weather quickly turned from pleasantly cool to crazy cold, I was reminded why it becomes daunting to work on the JayBee during the winter. The painting/staining/finishing stations that worked so well for me all summer long inside the JayBee don't function well in the bitter cold. I've had a few layers bubble up and peel because I didn't wait long enough for the electric heater to warm up the wood and the space before applying them. I've had to move all of the paints and finishes into the main house to keep them at the right temperature, which keeps me running back and forth trying to lay my hands on everything I need to do a project. The extension cords are no longer running across the driveway between houses; they are stored away (so the plow guy doesn't get tangled up in them) and have to be re-run any time I want to work out in the JayBee. Tomorrow, I will have to move the stairs away from the front of the JayBee--so the plow guy can maneuver in the small drive space in front of the JayBee. Everything just becomes more laborious and complicated the colder the weather gets.
Weeks ago, a racket down on the road lured me down my driveway to inspect what was going on. Railroad hobbyists were launching one of their rail cabs down the tracks. Stinky! Definitely no emissions-treatment devices on those things.
Anything you try to do will take longer and cost more.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the shower of positivity, optimism, and encouragement, DWR! Yee haw--buried in snow up here. While I can't say I'm exactly excited about the early winter, all the snow is putting me in the holiday mood. Happy Thanksgiving!
ReplyDeleteSorry about that. But I expect you got the joke. I've been following you since the start, and I'm amazed at what you've done--especially the detail work. I used to think that if you could button up the outside, you could work on the inside through the winter. But I never thought that actually getting from one house to the other would become a logistical nightmare. RESPECT!
ReplyDeleteI know! Every autumn, I have these great visions (unrealistic fantasies, it turns out) of all that I will be able to accomplish on the JayBee during the quiet winter. Between the bitter cold, short days, time spent constantly moving snow around, and all the other logistical impediments, I end up getting very little done during the winter. It's clear that, for me to make any progress this winter, I will have to set up painting stations inside the old house. That isn't going to happen until after the holidays are over, though.
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