It’s Friday morning and I’m in the 14-Foot Shoals cabin at Cheboygan State Park. Have been here with my friend Sandie Jones since Sunday afternoon, and we’ll be heading back to Atlanta tomorrow morning. It has been a pretty good week at the cabin. Temps were unseasonably warm when we arrived – like in the high 60s/low 70s – which had me concerned. I don’t come this far north to be warm. Fortunately, it started to cool down by about Tuesday night, and I’ve had a fire going in the cabins stove since then. I stormed last night and early this morning, and the wind and waves are high right now. Wonderful conditions for my wind game.
At home, work continues on the floors. I’ve pulled out all of the exisiting flooring on the ground floor (except for the tile in my kitchen pantry) and have begun putting down waterproof laminate oak. The living room is pretty much done – still need to paint the floor boards and add some quarter-round, and I’m a bit over halfway across the hall and into the kitchen. One of the first things I’ll need to do when I get home is rent a dumpster to get rid of all the crap that I pulled up from the floors. It’s currently piled in heaps in my music room and garage.
I’ve stained the decking on the deck – still haven’t done the railing. I guess I should put that on my list of things to do, also. Really need to buy a decent paint sprayer for that and for the railing over the retaining wall, which will need to be stained, too. I also plan to rebuild a section of fence near the house. It’s currently a big gate that’s falling over, and I’m just going to fence it in.
Sandie, meanwhile, has been remodeling my upstairs guest bathroom. She really wanted to do something and she’s done such a good job on her own house that I relented and gave her the bath, although I had no plans to do anything with it. She’s done a good job so far, and it’s nearing completion. Still not sure what type of floor will go in there – but I replaced the sink, so the old one is currently leaning against a wall upstairs – yet another reason I need that dumpster.
And that’s about all I’ve got at the moment. Typing this on my annoying little Bluetooth keyboard, which has keys that are really close together and sometimes in just the wrong place, so I have to go back and correct every other word, but at least it’s better than trying to use the keyboard on my phone.