Hope all goes well for everyone!
Turkey Day here is fast approaching! One of my favorite holidays!
Just finished laying down the last plank (finally
) of flooring for the family room and new (future) kitchen area with the help of my younger daughter! That took longer than the original plan 
I’ll hold off on the quarter round base trim until the cabinetry is installed. Now it’s time to clean up the garage (again 
) so we can have room to begin cleaning up the new cabinetry for priming. Debating on whether to finish paint before or after final install… there are pros and cons to both. The weather /temperature may be a deciding factor if things cool off too much in the coming weeks as the garage isn’t heated…(hmmm … could be an serendipitous opportunity there to broach the topic of getting a heating and air filtration system there with the Admiral …. wink: … probably not…..).Recent visits to Home Depot and Lowe’s was sorta surprising in that it seems I’m not the only customer to continue to delay funding larger discretionary home improvement projects, such as bathroom or kitchen remodels, due to concerns about the economy. My local stores are feeling it too based on what my friends at the Pro Counters are saying. There are also continuing delays/availability issues as well it would appear and pricing for lumber has increased (again
). Things are what they are…..For now I’m going to attempt to mount permanent castor wheels to the China cabinet so it can be moved around without calling over several neighbors. That thing weighs a ton! For the remodeling I temporarily secured it on a pair of moving dollies from Harbor Freight. That has worked out so well during this project that it will be worth making the effort to make it a more permanent feature. Great invention wheels! I’ll probably carry this theme on to other items of heavy furniture like the dry bar, bookshelf-cabinets and couches.
(Yes, I’ll be adding accessible wall anchors to the tall items to avoid any tip over potentials
) I like this idea as it will make moving them a breeze and avoid scratching the new flooring! Test fit of the new smaller searchlights looks promising. The included brackets are non-magnetic stainless which is a bonus as it means less for me to fabricate. An idea occurred to me to mount the wires inside the fwd bow rail tube uprights.. it would look cleaner but I’m not sure the extra efforts would really be worth it. My plan has been to tie wrap the wire to the uprights then make sealed deck penetrations to run the wiring back behind the inner cabin shell. One thought was to take advantage of a small accessible lip in the inner liner Rodger made to the bottom lip of the shell to tuck this wiring out of the way. The other was to run the wiring in the side trough formed by the ballast transfer tubes in a watertight conduit. I have prepositioned spare circuit breakers in my DC electrical panel. A control switch will be routed up to the pedestal for easy access. I’d like to get this done in a day’s time once we haul out…
There has been a small uptick in the cruiser southerly migration on our portion of the ICW! Some really big ones and several smaller ones as well. They are a welcome sight but about a month later than in previous years.
Gotta go and see if the Admiral and daughter are up for an afternoon cruise of our own this afternoon. The weather is in the 70s, clear sunny skies and a light breeze. Prefect for a couple hours on the water!
Best Regards,
Over Easy
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). Have to check with the marina manager to see if we can have a couple days latitude on our slip rental before we haul out….
