1. and I’m staring at a computer screen once again. What is
, fully alert, at 3 in the morning? Is there really that much
to waken me and drag me downstairs to this blasted com-
Or have I reached “that age” when getting a decent night’s
very night? Or, were the stars beckoning me to “Get up!
tacular tonight — or is it morning? What better way to greet
God’s handiwork!)
quite a few years ago, and the stars have been beckoning me
n’t resist. The reward has never failed to be priceless.
bles weighing you down? Go, look up at the sky. Too much
at the sky. Feeling pretty insignificant or, just the opposite, a
ng how immediately calming it is to simply sit (or lay) quietly
niverse. It certainly puts things in perspective. I might be over-
aller, but at the same time I am reminded that, like the stars, we
shine.
t night and give yourself the gift of time well spent staring up at
Someone is watching over you. You’ll sleep like a baby!
ssings!
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joyful always…
—“Stars” by Sarah Teasdale
lone in the night
On a dark hill
With pines around me
Spicy and still,
And a heaven full of stars
Over my head,
White and topaz
And misty red;
Myriads with beating
Hearts of fire
That aeons
Cannot vex or tire;
Up the dome of heaven
Like a great hill,
I watch them marching
Stately and still,
And I know that I
Am honored to be
Witness
Of so much majesty.
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what I see?
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2013
then nailed — using Jim’s own hand-wrought nails, of course — in a pleas-ing pattern. In laying out the chevronpattern, Jim had to determine exactlywhere the chevrons would position sothat the door knob would fall inside achevron board, and not in a groove.The passage door between the newaddition and the house was originallya side window, and the door itself isactually a sliding pocket door. (left inPhoto #12) Its styling is period-appro-priate for what could have been anoriginal exterior door. Dennis had verylimited available space in the wall tomake that pocket for the door sincethe corner of the house is very closeto the opening.
In furnishing the addition, Tom &Carole wanted to keep it sparse, aswould have been the custom in earlier
times. They wanted a work & clean-up space near the
fireplace, so Jim Tshudy was asked to build a cabinet
for that purpose. (Photo #13) Tom had a top and sink
fabricated out of soapstone to fit the top of Jim’s cabi-
net; one single piece for the entire countertop, and
one single piece from which the sink was carved. The
sink bowl is curved outward and the countertop has
“wear” that creates a drain-board effect.Tom also needed additional workspace in a small
area adjacent to the bake-oven. Using another piece
of soapstone, we fashioned alarge shelf for kneading dough.(Photo #14)
We installed vintage yellow-pine flooring throughout theaddition, which Tom & Carolefinished. (Photo #15) They alsoprimed and finish-painted all thewood trims for both the interiorand exterior applications, aswell as the walls and ceiling.These two are very “hands-on”, as they were 25 yearsago.
The completed additionlooks like it’s been there allalong, which is exactly whatwe were planning on. (Photo#16) But, two things stand out:The project was completed in
time for Tom to roast his traditional Thanksgiving turkey,
and Carole’s prized tree peony is alive and well and new
leaves should be appearing very soon.
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Boarded floors are those covered with boards. The
operation of boarding floors should commence as soon
as the windows are in, and the plaster dry. The prepa-
ration of the boards for this purpose is as follows:They should first be planed on their best face, and
set out to season till the natural sap is quite exhausted;
they may then be planed smooth, shot and squared
upon one edge: the opposite edges are brought to a
breadth, by drawing a line on the face parallel to the
other edge, with a flooring gauge; they are then gauged
to a thickness with a common gauge, and rebateddown on the back to the linesdrawn by the gauge.
The next thing to
be done is to try the
joists, whether they
be level or not: if
they are found to
be depressed in
the middle, they
must be furred
up, and if found
to protuberant
must be reduced
by the adze. The
former is more
generally the case.
The boards employed
in flooring are either battensor deals of greater breadth. Thequality of battens are divided into three kinds;the best is that free of knots, shakes, sap-wood, or
cross-grained stuff, and well matched, that is, selected
with the greatest care; the second best is that in which
only small, but sound knots are permitted, and free of
shakes and sap-wood; the most common kind is that
which is left, after taking away the best and second
best.
With regards to the joints of flooring boards,they are either quite square, plowed andtoungued, rebated, or doweled; in fixingthem they are nailed either upon one
or both edges; they are always necessarily nailed on
both edges, when the joints are plain or square without
dowels. When they are doweled, they may be nailed on
one or both edges; but in the best, doweled work, the
outer edge only is nailed, by driving the brad obliquely
through that edge without piercing the surface of the
board; so that the surface of the floor, when cleaned
off, appears without blemish.
In laying boarded floors, the boards are sometimes
laid one after another; or otherwise, one is first laid,
then the fourth, leaving an interval of somewhat lessthan the breadth of the second and
third together: the two
intermediate boards
are next laid in their
places, with one edge
upon the edge of the
first board, and the
other upon that of the
fourth board; the two
middle edges resting
upon each other, and
forming a ridge at the
joint; to force down
these joints, two or
more workmen
jump upon the
ridge till they
have brought theunder sides of the boards closeto the joints, then they are fixed in their places
with brads. In this last method, the boards are said to
be folded. Though two boards are here mentioned, the
most common way is to fold four at a time; this mode
is only taken when the boards are not sufficientlyseasoned, or suspected not to be so. In order to make
close work, it is obvious that the two edges forming
the joint of the second and third board, must formangles with the faces, each less than a right angle. The
seventh board is fixed as the fourth, and the fifth and
sixth inserted as the second and third, and so on till
the completion.
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Gary’s Exceptional ExcerptsBoarding Floors
The Mechanic’s Companion, by Peter Nicholson, Pub. By James Locken, Philadelphia, 1832, pp. 144-145.
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