Put up the roof beams today. Chris made a mockup of a design for the cabinets, a sort of minimalist Swedish style sliding door thing. He used teflon strips to reduce friction for the sliding doors.
Next week I’m going to spend my time tinkering with sandwiches and root beer for this letterpress fair on Saturday.
Chris popped in his window, just to see what it would look like in place. This is a side window over the countertop where I’ll be making sandwiches. It’s 48″ by 28″.
Fixed the leak in the grey water tanks. Installed all the plumbing and water piping underneath the floor. Painted the bottom of the floor and screwed it down. Erected the stud walls. A productive day. At about noon, with the temperature at 100˚, I think my brain began to bake and in my daze somehow the mirage of a shimmering house on wheels propelled me forwards.
With some of the cherries that we picked we made preserved chocolate cherries from a recipe Lindsey had seen in the Oregonian. When we tried them a few days later they seemed to have fermented, also the chocolate curdled and became granular. But I thought they would be perfect in a black forest cake, so I made two yesterday. One for me and one for the neighbors. The cherries on the top are actually some of the succesful marachino’s we made.