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Skriven 2006-08-19 09:08:14 av DAVE SACERDOTE (1:123/140)
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A small quantity of DeKuyper's Peachtree Schnapps was left behind 
after last week's picnic.

Yesterday, I worked all day repairing carpenter ant damage and
rebuilding cellar stairs at the Future House.  On the way home
I stopped and picked up a 2L bottle of Andirondack Orange Frost
soda pop.

It's pale orange in color and has a pleasant but not strong orange
flavor with backnotes of grapefruit.

You can probably guess where this is leading.

Tall glass of ice + jigger or so of peach schnapps, fill
with Orange Frost and stir gently.

The citrus flavor enhances the peachiness.  It's delicious and
refreshing.  I drank way more of these than I should have, 
(not including the random shot here and there to make sure the
schnapps was still okay to use [g]) got sleepy (well, 10 hours 
of labor can do that, too) and went to bed.

= = 

Jim Weller:

These stairs are a classic case of a day's work stretching into
three or four days.  The stairs were put in 80 years ago when
the house was built, but the bottom of the stringers were set
on an earthen floor.  The concrete floor was later poured around
them.

Over the years, rot traveled as though following a wick up from
the submerged part of the stringers; meanwhile, at some time in
the past, carpenter ants got in from the side door that also 
connects to the landing.  When I started on the job, I thought
that only the stringers and steps from the cellar to the landing
would need to be replaced, but it turned out that the entire run of
stairs - cellar to landing at outside door, then up a 90-degree
turn to the kitchen door - all had to be replaced.

It took a full day to do the demolition.  The original stairs were
not as solid as I would have liked them to begin with, so I
designed a new frame using 4 x 4 posts to support the landing and
90-degree turn.  We found that part of the landing was supported 
by being inserted into pockets in the brick foundation, so we
waterproofed the pockets and notched the new framework to fit where
the old ones did.  Roger and I spent four hours the other night
building the basic framework.  Yesterday, I spent another ten hours
completing the framing and decking the 90-degree turn (severely
acute angle cuts!!  AAARGH!!)  Roger and I are old hands working
together - I do most of the measuring and cutting and hand off the
pieces to him for assembly, and both of us can picture in our heads
what we want before we start - so it went fast on Thursday, but
working alone goes a lot slower.

Tomorrow I'll cut the new stringers to go down to the cellar floor,
set them, and deck them.  Then I can start on the plumbing. [g]

Hmm.  I think I'll set up another blog to track the house, and 
set up some photos etc.  That way you and the other echo folks can
follow my misadventures. [g]





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