Patio guest

This little guy came to visit.

Pine Trees

Today while on our hike up Ladrone Gulch here in Kingston the Pine trees kept popping up. My interest was having photo's to assist me in making scale model trees for my train layout. What else.....

Lazy Boo

A Twisted Curve

Referred to in the model train world as a Helix. In my spare time or lets say my hobby time I have been fabricating a helix for my HO train layout. My Helix will only rise 405 degrees. One and one quarter loop.

The base to my Helix was constructed out of scraps of 9 ply 12 mm plywood glued and biscuit jointed.

Yes, that's 16 clamps for glueing the risers and road bed.

This was todays progress. 180 degrees to go for a total rise of 5.350 inches. In scale terms that will be just over 38 feet.

West Side

Hard to believe that after all these years we are down to the last wall to plaster on our Timber Frame, Straw Bale Cabin.

After a couple days of filling some voids, today we stuccoed the West Side with a Brown Coat. Now we need to decide on a color.

Smoke

Glad no neighbor called 911 from all the smoke we were generating today. Quite an interesting smoke it was. The smoke would pour out the door, flow under the roof, collect then sort of puff out and up.

Horno's do smoke, the price we have to pay to eat pizza.

The aftermath!

Lime Plaster

A week of lime plastering on our cabin. Time to get it done......

I suppose the hardest part was setting up the scaffolding on this big North face. The legs needed to go on the steps and in the garden then secured with clamps and boards. Satomi is not a big fan of being up high on scaffolding but she did good.

Here Satomi is finishing up a window above the front door

The look after applying. 

The next day after drying. Notice the color change once the moisture is out. Before taking down the scaffolding we had to go around all the edges and clean.

So there you have it, no more scaffolding,  ever?

This south side we did first. Someday we will remove the lower splash protection panels.

Now with the windows clean.

Next week the plan is to finish up the East and West walls.