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[Don Bowen <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>]

I have been busy since we moved here a year and a half ago.  Lots of 
little and some large projects.  The three most recent are putting in a 
wood stove, a bathroom in the sewing room, and completing the shop 
insulation.

The wood stove project was one that expanded beyond its bounds.  We 
tiled the entire room before installing the stove.  It is now keeping us 
warm.

http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/September%2011/images/tiled.jpg
Tiled room

http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/September%2011/images/stove.jpg
Stove waiting for cold weather

http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/October%2011/images/fire.jpg
Warm fire in the stove

The next project was plumbing the sewing room.  I had to run water lines 
to the room then plumb in a sink and toilet.

http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/September%2011/images/rocks.jpg
Trenching through Ozark rocks.

http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/images/tile.jpg
Toilet platform.  I installed the toilet earlier this week.

http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/images/backsplash.jpg
Sink backsplash was part of the mess.

http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/August%2011/images/shelves.jpg
This is the book shelf I built several years ago.  This is the third 
installation for the sewing room.

The shop is another big project.  I built false walls between the posts 
and insulated with roll insulation.  This last couple of weekends I had 
a tin ceiling put in and had insulation blown in.  Now I am completing 
the electrical.

http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/September%2011/images/shop%20ceiling.jpg
Shop ceiling before.

http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/images/tin%20ceiling.jpg
Shop ceiling after.

http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/January%2011/images/start.jpg
Start of project, bare tin.

http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/January%2011/images/false%20wall.jpg
Put up a false wall with studs on 2" centers.

http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/January%2011/images/insulation.jpg
Insulation.

http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/January%2011/images/OSB.jpg
Cover the whole thing with OSB.

http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/January%2011/images/work%20station.jpg
Workbench and shelves I built last winter.

Another project completed this summer was putting the grandsons swing 
set back together.
http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/September%2011/images/swing.jpg

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Don Bowen           KI6DIU
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