Day 1807

 I got up at 8, did the pet stuff, and had breakfast.  Then it was off to the playhouse.

I started off by moving all of the tools back to the playhouse.  I'd moved almost everything to the garage last night because I thought I might not work today.  Hah.  Then I swept out the whole playhouse and the porch.  That let me see the major water damage on the porch floor.  That made me decide to resurface the porch.  I can do it with one 4x4 sheet of plywood.

After that it was on to demo.  I took off the door trim.  Then I removed the old door threshold.  I cut the overhead door frame with the sawsall.  Unfortunately I poked a small hoe in the siding when I did that.  Then I removed the overhead frame.

I had to remove a bunch of nails that attached the siding to the side door frames.  That was a lot easier than yesterday because I could pry the siding from the frame and then just remove the nails with a hammer.  Finally I removed the side door frames.

By then it was time to have lunch with Lee.  We went to the place in Belterra.  It was OK.  We had a good conversation.  Hopefully Lee liked it.  I hoping we can do it again.

After lunch I went back to work.  I used the circular saw to cut the angles at the top of the new side frames.  I'd never done that before.  I got one "pretty good" and the other perfect.  I also used the sawsall to cut the floor framing.  I did pretty good at that.  I also cut the siding.

The last part was installing the side door framing.  That went well.  I'm leaving the top of the frame open until I see how the door fits.  After that was cleanup.  I can't really do anything more until I have the new porch plywood down.  I'll go get it tomorrow morning.

I cut up some of the garbage wood that I didn't want to keep and took it to the garbage.  Then I went in and took a shower.  Ellen was off teaching.

Dinner was a frozen dinner - there's nothing else in the house.  After dinner I did some shopping on craigslist.  I'm looking for a trailer.  There's a trailer manufacturer in Manor that seems to have some good prices.  I may contact them when the playhouse is done.

After dinner was TV and Lego.  Step 3 of the Lego isn't very interesting.  It's mainly adding non-functional bits to the truck to make it look authentic.  There's a lot of one-of, non-standard, parts.  I want to get back to building things that make it work.