Sunday January 18: The Never-ending Stove Project

The door are on!! Well, at least for the time being. They still need to have handles added and of course a finish which will help the new doors to blend in with the rest of the cabinets.

Tomorrow the piece of maple for the cutting board will arrive so maybe by Wednesday or so the project will be deemed to be completed.

Of course this is almost exclusively Steve's project. I helped with clamps and holding wood as well as finding the starboard and maple wood on the internet. Otherwise, he gets the credit.

Not that I've been totally lazy but pretty much so - although I was shamed into getting something productive done the other day.

I finally took the picture of our former Cleveland harbor down (thanks to Becky for the picture!!) and painted the wall paper in the aft cabin. This will definitely keep the mildew from growing during the months of storage in the hot Florida summers.

Steve did manage to find a better way to work on the doors. Shade! What a great idea :-) I should have thought of it ......

Even though it took time to cut the doors from Craig's list down to size, it took even more time to finish putting them back together.

And then cleaning the teak. And then of course the hinges had to be put on.

Not just ordinary put-in-4-screws hinges but rather router out space on the doors and the frames to recess the hinges.

Fortunately our dremel has a small router bit but it still took an inordinate amount of time to cut out the 8 small spaces for the hinges.

Patience was the key here - good thing I wasn't in charge :-)

More gluing and trial and error fitting before Steve was satisfied with the results.

I think the most fun he had all week was when Cindy and Randy (from "I Think I Can ...") came over to watch the football games last weekend.

Gigit found the perfect place to sleep - using Steve's foot as a pillow :-)

Cutest dogs EVER (Cricket is their other little dog) :-)

Playoff games today .... not sure who to root for but I think Seattle and the Patriots. Wouldn't that make for a great Superbowl??