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Gorgeous today - mid 50's sunny.  Someone suggested 'twould be good for yard work but Swett Lodge posting's today's 'chore'.  Searched in vain for internet service downtown on bike.  Library closed, no good signal/outlets at public market came home to (hopefully!) post here.  Writing keeps me from working too hard on the house - a good thing.  Starting to feel less like a tourist here, emphasized by Swett Lodge's first overnight guest last night.  Transplanted to Portland LA neighbor above on Rose in Venice was in Eugene teaching seminar, came by for the evening.  Drove accommodations here parked in Swett Lodge's auxiliary camp/park area.

Been quiet though spent couple days washing ceilings/walls/floors

 

except for bath, front bedroom.  Drying.  Healing.  Left hand still recuperating from floor scraping - over stressed unable to form bar chords on guitar.  Fortunately visiting buddy is massage therapist specializing in repetitive muscle stress issues.  Besides treating to selection north west micro brews was good enough to revivify hand with deep tissue massage.  Angel! 

    Old walls withstood power wash in August, broom & suds last week.  House's walls are plaster & lath.  Before gypsum wall board (sheetrock) carpenters meticulously nailed lath to studs with 1/4" gaps, scratch coated with cement, skim coated with plaster.  In the midwest they put horse hair in cement for matrix/added strength - not in Swett Lodge.

Will duplicate process when finishing walls.  Front bedroom's plaster & lath so bad at one point someone sheetrocked - here with top paper layer torn off in spots - over them.  Probably will remove, repair plaster & lath.

After Tuesday house washing - dump night.  Wheel barrow load to Kate's for disposal.

Particularly good way to deal with empties - no muss, no fuss - redeemed at Freddy Meyer's for OR $.05 value.   Not Burt Bacharach - his bro Bike Back Rack. 

     Not mine to tell but for posterity's sake:  clan member owns couple of dogs one exceedingly voracious.  Over holidays had free spirited house guest carrying full measure chocolate covered zoomers.   Dog found 'em/gobbled.  Good owners took dog to vet for stomach pump - still one glassy eyed pup.  Certain more than I jealous.  It's a dog's life!

 

   Want to store lumber etc. in carport would like privacy/decorum.  Ponder gate materials won't need elsewhere.  Cupboard doors might do.

Figured to use bath shelf material with doors to make gate.  Start tearing shelves apart find are tongue & groove fir matching floor in kitchen/front room - save for floor patching.

Attempt gate layout on front room floor.

Remember more doors.

Bracing?  Minimal's fine.

Fasten doors to each other using old luan screws front and back where door rails meet,  screw door bottom rails to board from bath cabinets, recovered hardware upper hinge,

lower hinge (reshaped hook once held aerial TV cable),

render this baby ready to swing.

1"x12" chunk from kitchen cabinet tear out, cement blocks stabilize free end.

Making no cost not unattractive - specially painted after 'curing' time - 'lumber yard' gate.

Color correct (matches neighboring house trim), lends nice flow to 'skyline'.  Get huge satisfaction turning castoffs functional.  Next: finish carport roof making 'lumber yard' ready to stock - waitin' on dry day to screw saved luan underlayment to rafters, cover with excess 30 lb. felt from garage roof.  Temporary shelter.  Inside 'lumber yard'. 

Gate up hose down carport/lumber yard area eliminating stench, cob webs proceed to reorganize cement.   Mud jack - shovel, Spud's spud (17 lb. steel persuading bar)

fetched on bike from Kate's - corner slab from junction of walk east from front steps and carport walk (here: after - a mud filled hole, new gate photo top right),

amend front walk.

Will fill last 2' dirt area end front walk to curb with another mudjacked slab.  Eventually will mud jack/move all front yard cement 'cept this front walk to car park behind garage leaving sun soaked front yard dirt for grass/garden. 

     Plat book entry for Swett Lodge - star marks the spot,

lot layout - front walks lightly inked,

floor layout,

may help orient when considering Swett Lodge.  Drawing below shows current proposed remodel plan - porch/garage roof lines (peaks, valley) shown.   Garage meets back porch roof detail will improve as project nears.

Note chimney in house center (east, west), center wall on east side of chimney making west house half 14', east half closer to 12'.  Curious to find if supports in crawl space are under wall or in center of building - more as I know.   Front/back porches will be one step lower than floor - now even.  Sketches approximate.

     Native Oregonian life pace overtaking.  May slow posting.  Will continue to capture larger points.  God bless.         d