Nick, Jeanie, Matt, Harold and Sue put in another week-end working on the outhouse. The boys put Tyvek on the main panels, and painted white primer on the inside ply of the roof and lower wall panels. They fitted all the spruce siding, using some creative patterns. We used Tom Swann’s air nailer with 6d finish nails for the spruce siding, and that really made the attachment quick and easy. The building panels were screwed together for a “trial fit”; that went great and it is now sitting in our driveway with visqueen over it. It looks pretty cool. The shutters still need a final coat of white but the colors are done and looking pretty good. Eighteen shingles were pulled out of the shingle pile and have got the first side of primer on before the spray colors are added. Sue will try to get the shingle primer finished this week and Harold will do the last finishing touches on the outhouse. Installation possibly Labor Day Week-end?
Harold tried to call Robbie on Sunday, but did not connect with him. Sunday night Harold called Larry to see what progress he had seen. Larry said he spent Friday night in Hope and hand-dug his outhouse hole. He said it was very difficult, with the large rocks just under the duff, and he made it worse by trying to make a narrow hole. He intended to go down 4 feet, but stopped at 3 feet due to the difficulty. He did not see Robbie and said it doesn’t look like he worked on the drives this weekend.
Robbie called about 10 PM, and said he had been gold mining all day, and it has been raining pretty hard. He has things to do on Monday but may get back over to the job on Tuesday or Wednesday to dig and spread gravel. He said his son has a very small rubber-tired tractor with a hoe attachment that might be useful for an outhouse hole excavation. The machine is parked over at the Davidson gas station, if we want to take a look at it.
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