Passed Final!!!

Still have quite a bit to do, but it's nice to have this behind me...

Pulled the internet dish down and removed the pole...

Can you see the new installation location - from the living room perspective...

Had to pull a door...

It was an interior air lock door for the entry - once installed (with difficulty), and ready to install the hardware I noticed the threshold had been installed crooked.  Removed the door, tried to fix it, but straightening it pulled the screws from the opposite jamb and cracked the side jamb.

Oh well, we wanted a solid fir door anyways ; )

Turned on water to all fixtures...

A couple of dribbles, but all easily tightened, thus far ; )

The best delivery, ever...

Everyone labels their boulders...

Right?

Second Bath/Laundry Room...

Shower/Tub controls and door...

A smiling selfie...

The first longish ride for me in almost two months...

My Methow Cross Tour...

Blue skies, pavement, gravel, dirt...  fun!

Massive thunderstorms last night...

And the accompanying massive flooding since the fires wiped out all the vegetation.   Highway 20 and 153 are both blocked with mudslides and debris flows across the roadways - Highway 153 with a hundred yard wide flow, five feet deep.

What a Summer!!!

Here is a pic by Kathy Gunn-Bennett of Benson Creek last night...

Master Bath...

Toilet and door...

My hungry pal...

I keep refilling this feeder...

"I can drink all of this, no problem..."

Shower...

Complete!

Do you see anything?

No!!!

I hauled my scrap pile away today to the dump - 1200 pounds of it.

Beautiful!

RV for sale...

Anyone?

http://wenatchee.craigslist.org/rvs/4628239484.html

I started the shower enclosure...

Installed the bottom rails first, then the two side glass panels...

Had to do a little customization with the rod supports to make sure they hit the wall studs...

Installed the hinges for the door tomorrow...

I was just finishing the work on the water seals for the door when an unexplained boom shook the house - and it now appears all of Twisp, but not up into Winthrop.

Very strange as I was sure something very large had crashed on to my roof - I was running around the inside and outside of the house like a wild man looking for what had happened - nothing.

To the benefit of my sanity, I found dozens of people posting on the various online boards in regards to this strange event - no conclusions as of yet...

Today's doings...

Finished figuring out and installing the downstairs toilet...

Although I didn't have the possible patience to turn the water on and test it just yet as I spent a great part of the day removing the protective film from the shower enclosure metal parts as it refused to peel off.  I ended up using carburetor cleaner as it dissolved the adhesive and doesn't harm the metal or the rubber gaskets.  What a pain...

But they look good ; )

This week's progress...

Tilework...

Fir stair wall caps...

Toilets and trim experiment...

Been a month since my last outdoor ride...

The air is finally clear, and felt I was ready to check out the fire devastation on one of my favorite routes - Pipestone Canyon Loop...

Up Lester Road...

At the top of Lester - singletrack...

Large debris flow from the rain storm this last week...

Top of the mud flow...

 Near the origin of the 400 square mile plus Carlton Complex Fire...

Campbell Lake below at the entrance to Pipestone Canyon...

In Pipestone Canyon - nearly crashed a dozen times as there was a lot of fallen and burned trees across the trai...

Coming out of Pipestone...

Looking down Balky Hill Road, headed home...

12th Night pics...

The play at the Merc Playhouse closed last weekend...

My very talented and kind friend, Matt Delcomyn, visited last weekend with his equally wonderful girlfriend, Anna...

Matt, an amazing photographer, took these photos during the play...