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Aug. 30th, 2004 04:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kirkcudbrightNot sure why, but I totally can't sleep tonight. So here's what we did during waky-time.
Good progress on the Chicken Palace. Francie framed the walls. I framed the floor, and set the skids. Then we assembled all the pieces, nailed walls to each other, walls to floor. Next comes the roof rafters, where we learn how to make a birds-mouth cut.
In between, I mowed the lawn, mulched the garden with the clippings, weeded and mulched the strawberry bed, and generally got a lot of sun.
It was a day, and now it's night, and I can't sleep. Fuck.
Good progress on the Chicken Palace. Francie framed the walls. I framed the floor, and set the skids. Then we assembled all the pieces, nailed walls to each other, walls to floor. Next comes the roof rafters, where we learn how to make a birds-mouth cut.
In between, I mowed the lawn, mulched the garden with the clippings, weeded and mulched the strawberry bed, and generally got a lot of sun.
It was a day, and now it's night, and I can't sleep. Fuck.
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Date: 2004-08-30 07:43 am (UTC)While renovating our kitchen, we found that one of the horizontal beams (7"x7"x17') appears to have a birds-mouth cut on it (about 7' from one end). This part of the house was probably built in the 1820s, but the birds-mouth suggests that the beam might have come from an even older building.
birds-mouth (http://postdiluvian.org/~seven/pics/house/kitchen/BirdsMouth.jpg) picture