Day 2253

 I woke up at 8, did the pet stuff and had breakfast.  After a little bit of surfing I took out the garbage and put out the cans.  I stopped at the apartment to set up to attach the bead board.  I got all of the tools out and in place.  I also sealed the saw kerfs in the wall with duct tape.  Then I went back to the house and got Ellen to help.

It took a little effort, but we got the bead board in place on the wall.  I'm proud to say that it fit perfectly.  Unfortunately I did have the holes for the TP dispenser in the wrong place.  That was an easy fix though.  When the bead board was all installed it was obvious that we needed trim across the top of the wall and along the corner.

I started by fitting one piece of the live edge along the corner.  That involved sanding down portions of one edge until it was straight enough to fit against the wall.  That took some trial and error, with a lot of trips from the garage to the bathroom and back.  The result fit really well.  Then I sanded a notch in the top of the board to match up with the board along the ceiling.

It took a little more work with the sander to straighten the top of the ceiling board.  I also had to do a little more work on the corner board's notch.  While I was doing all of this sanding Ellen was caulking the right side of the bead board.  When she was done I did the top because she couldn't reach it.

The final step was to nail the two boards into place.  They fit really well and the result looks pretty good.  The only thing we might do is get another board and continue the corner trim all the way to the floor.  Right now it ends at the trip across the other wall.

I put all of the tools and stuff away while Ellen cleaned up the bathroom.  Then I swept up the garage.  We got that all done about 12:30.  We went back to the house and surfed for a little while.

A big box came from Amazon.  It had the stencil making machine for Ellen.  It also had the replacement rope light for the gate.  Half of the existing one had burned out.  I took it to the gate, removed the old light, and installed the new one.  That took awhile because of all the old cable ties that had to be cut and all of the new ones that had to be installed.

When that was done I started a marathon Ryft surf.  I watched videos, I looked for parts, and I finally found a forum discussing it.  The forum said that a couple of the parts withing the transmission needed to be modified.  I'm probably going to take my transmission apart and do the mod.

Ellen played with her stencil machine.  She redid several of the stencils on the truck body.  The new ones look really nice.

Dinner was a pizza.  The Ryft marathon lasted the rest of the night.