My 3 Rivers Cross Ride...

Across the Methow, Chewuch and Twisp Rivers - a fantastically fun 55 mile ride...

Spent the afternoon up a ladder...

On both the house and garage, applying stain/preservative to the exposed glulam ends...

Drywall update...

Dan and Casey are moving along with beautiful work.  Something I definitely budgeted to leave to the professionals.  We will be getting a level 5 smoothwall finish...

Alaskan Yellow Cedar trellis...

Set them up on the brackets to check position and watch the shadow pattern during the day...

I will secure them with lag screws when I decide final position.

Curiosity of the day...

Finally got around to Googling The Brown Palace Hotel as it was on the towel I used to wipe off excess stain...

We have had this towel for decades, but not paid much mind to it, but I had always been curious...

Finally looked it up today - pretty cool.  A grand Hotel built in the late 1800's in Denver, and somewhat famous for being haunted.  I looked up images for the hotel and it is beautiful...

Glad I checked it out...

Still don't know how we ended up with this towel ; )

Post-ride...

I sanded the Yellow Cedar and put a transparent preservative on it...

A nice ride...

a bit over 6,000 feet of climbing...

And a sense of relief and happiness that I avoided the Phallic Forest of last weekend...