Sheralee and I headed up early early Saturday morning to the property. We knew there had been snow earlier in the week, but pretty much all gone, except some white in the shadows of trees. Very cool, but kinda chilly during the day..
Our first goal was to finish our entry way lighting. We came up with an LED light scheme using mason jars, and some LED strip lighting, tied directly into our 12 volt system and use some 3 way light switches so we can turn the light on/off from the door entry or upstairs in the loft.
Here are some pictures of us putting the lights together.
Basically, I purchased a 16′ strip of LED lighting, cool white, and bought six 16oz mason jars. The goal was to put about 30 inches of led strip lighting in each jar. We tied the led lights together on the back of the board, and then mounted it and tied it into the ceiling light fixture.
It really turned out great!! We are very happy with it, and will try and incorporate the same concept in future light projects.
So, that kind of wrapped up Saturday. Sheralee did some tree hacking, with her manual saw, and I attempted to chainsaw some of those trees she fell, unfortunately our Poulan chainsaw balked again. It just wasn’t meant to be that day.
So, we settled in with a nice fire and made some dinner. After dinner though, we got quite a show in the sky. It was well after sunset, and dark, when Sheralee got up for some reason and looked to the West sky. There was a sight to behold…and believe me, when you are in the middle of no where, and there is a very strange occurrence in the sky, you have no idea what is happened. To me, it looked much like a helicopter search light, and then some sort of mushroom type cloud. It was way strange.
These pictures are very close to what we saw.
Turns out, there was a U.S. Navy Trident missile test off the coast of San Diego. This strange sight could be seen as far East as Arizona (us) and Nevada. Twitter was going crazy with possibilities, but by the morning we got the straight scoop. It was clearly one of the craziest things we had ever seen in the sky.
On to Sunday. The goal was to start some inside framing, especially the bathroom walls, to accommodate the wall that will be surrounding the wood stove. In order to make that wall, we had to frame in the bathroom back wall, one side wall, and one door way wall.
In the above photo, you can see a wall jutting out, this is one side of the bathroom doorway, and then the wood stove will be right in front of that.
It was just so amazing to see walls being created. One thing we both agreed on is that everything looks different on paper! ha. We also had some minor changes in where windows will go in the bathroom. All, still very very cool!
On to the next weekend…