A Day's Work
The next batch of lumber arrived; this is the tongue-in-groove which will line the covered porch ceilings. It's much easier to stain when the wood is on sawhorses on the ground than when it's installed and you have to protect the ground (patio) below AND stain above your head and from ladders or scaffolding. Dad and I put in an afternoon of staining on the day the lumber arrived. Our builder moved all that aside to make room for Jörg and me to do the next round. We made an early start, leaving Livingston around 6:30 AM. We stopped at the Rosebud Cafe in Absarokee for a load of protein before arriving on site. By 9:00 AM we were on the job. Now equipped with drying racks and more sawhorses, Joerg and I got a system going (we're a pretty good team with stuff like this) of staining and stacking (loading on drying racks). What these pictures don't tell you is that we were battling some strong Montana winds. We had to relocate the staining operation ...