Completing the room over the garage

After waking early, we did our morning language lessons, and texted birthday wishes to Sarah. She said that she would video chat with us after the boys got home from school.

We had Great Grains cereal for breakfast and started back to work on the ceiling in the room over the garage. The paint was dry on the planks that Mary and Cindy had stained yesterday afternoon, so we carried the 8-foot boards up to the second floor. The boards went up fairly quickly, so we moved to the last section that were 9’ 3” wide so we had to use the 10’ boards. We slowed down to cut around an electrical box for a ceiling light. We cut an access hole to for the ventilation fan in the attic. We had to rip a thin board for the last row on the ceiling, but it went into place fairly easily.

We stopped for a lunch of turkey sandwiches with tortilla chips and queso dip, then went back to work.

We finished the ceiling by around 3 pm and were pleased with how it looked. Since we had some stained planks left, we ripped pieces to enclose the windows at each end. The boards required some fine tuning to fit around the windows, but we got them nailed into place. Then we cut a plywood cover for the ceiling access then covered it with stained planks to match with the ceiling. The room still needed to have the Sheetrock finished and trim to be put up around the doors and windows as well as between the drywall and the stained pine planks. We started cleaning up the space since it was covered with sawdust and tools were placed around the room where we were using them.

Mark could tape and finish the drywall when they return from Oregon in two weeks. They were going to Oregon to finalize the purchase of a new house where Robert and Sheena will rent from them. They also planned to celebrate the boys’ birthdays and visit some of their Oregon friends. Mark does a good job with drywall and should get the room looking good soon once they return from the trip.

Sarah and the boys video called for a video chat, and it was great seeing them. We look forward to having them down for a sleepover soon.

We decided on leftover red beans and rice with a garden salad for dinner. We did our evening language lessons then watched two episodes of Vienna Blood on PBS.