Hi all:
Since the summer of 1997, I have been building a cabin and house on our 1/2 acre lot here. Before I dive into that part, I am going to show a few photos to set the stage a bit. We are remote here. No services of any kind, except that which we provide for ourselves. So don't expect to see any paved roads with big trucks delivering any materials.
We live at the head of a small bay, which is both a blessing and a curse.
When the tide goes out, we have to clamber over hundreds of yards of rocks to get to our boat. When it is in, I can float logs right up to my little railway to move them onto the log deck. Well, not any more, but more about that later.
This is the bay in front of us.
Randy's imaging setup for the super nova was an 80 mm apochromatic refractor scope with his ATIK 314e Monochrome CCD camera attached.
In order to get colours from a monochrome CCD camera, it is necessary to make different exposures through RGB filters. (Red, green and blue.)
These images are combined to produce a single colour image. You need to have a special program to be able to do that, and you need to be pretty good on a computer - which Randy definitely is. :thumbsup:
Well, yesterday's story was yet another with great expense attached.
The previous night, the main battery bank finally expired, so it was time for a new one.
Over to town yesterday, had a long chat with our local battery expert. They are still recommending the Trojan T-105's. Slightly improved since the last batch we bought. Rated at 225 amp hours each, 6 volts. We need multiples of 4 for the 24 volt system we run. Bought 8...and that will be $1500 thank you very much Sir.
So I feigned a heart attack right on the spot and had them worried for a minute. I think I will get four more next month just to be absolutely certain that there is no problem with the electrical system this winter. Probably don't need them, but extra insurance will be nice as I'm at the house using power constantly now.
Couple of small glitches with the new bank going in, but got it all fixed up jig time.
It has been very dull and drizzly here for the last 3 days, so I was surprised to see this white rose out in bloom. (Must be the great care I have given them while the missus is laid up!)
Picked up another 200 lbs. of thinset and 50 pounds more grout for the floor. I don't want to run out this weekend when I try to get the nook floor done.
Sunday will be partly taken up as I have agreed to help someone with a little work on the other side of the island.
Barb will be interested to hear that they have a log cabin built by Norse Log Homes up in Lantzville. Those are the guys who build them the way they are supposed to be built.
I'm pretty sure I can manage a pic or two once I get underway over there.
After the battery exercise today I got to do more painting...this time on the opposite end nook wall. I'm going to have to wait to do behind the chimney, as it's a tad warm right now. But it sure makes the paint dry fast!
Do you tape and tarp when you piant, or do you have a really steady hand? I never seem to see painters tape anywhere in your pictures. Whenever I paint it seems to take almost as long to tape and prep, than the actual painting itself, and I still mange to get a few unintended paint marks !!!
James, there's a secret to not getting any paint on an adjoining surface, and it has nothing to do with tape.
So, if you promise faithfully not to tell another soul, I'll fill you in.
When you are going to paint next to another surface, whether it is another wall, or window glass, whatever - it doesn't matter, when you do the first coat, run the brush along the surface about 1/8" away from the adjoining surface. Don't be tempted to try to go right up against the next surface.
When that one is dry, then you do the next coat as close as you dare without touching it. Experience definitely helps, but perhaps even more than that is your choice of brush. Use an angled brush, not too big, fairly stiff bristles and don't load it with too much paint. Then run the brush down your edge very slowly. Racing will only get you into trouble.
I don't have the time right now to get a pic of the brushes I use for this, but I will later. :yes:
Thanks Jim, now I still have to cut the tile and the arbutus trim wood for that middle step. If I'd been paying attention I could have done it while I was getting the floor all cut out.
Now we are in the throes of a dandy rainstorm which is supposed to last for some time and wouldn't you know it, I do all the cutting outside. :wallbash:
The truth is that looks just super. I love doing stuff like that where the imagination can be allowed to flow and wander around a little. I don't get to do that much of that creative stuff on a regular basis.
Every once in a while a customer will tell me; "There's where I want some tile Bud, do something with it." I just want to hug those people. Your overall project is like that to me.:yes:
I do not! I quit taking pictures for years and years and only just started again about three years ago. I have a few pictures scattered around here somewhere but couldn't tell you where they are. I have a few hundred on my hard drive but when I try to post them to a website somewhere they always seem to elude me. I even went as far as to put all of them in folders at one time then somehow the damned folder contents got mixed randomly and that made me mad enough to just say screw it.
My problem is I am "digitally challenged" in several ways. Not the least of which is with digital photography simple as it has become. I have had a couple of the early digital cameras but neither of them produce the quality I like and the built-in lenses aren't usually conducive with taking pictures in tight quarters which is what I need.
Many years ago I was a student of photography and had fish-eye lenses and telephotos and all that other stuff back then but that has all gone away and I just never indulged myself again.
One day I'll get interested again and pull out some stuff.
I know I know: Too much information.
I'll try this and see what happens just for fun.
This is a sandstone and travertine job I had something to do with about three years ago.
It appears I have loaded it as an attachment. I have no idea how to get the picture in this frame. See what I mean: "DIGITALLY CHALLENGED".
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