Cherry. Stains.

I started the day by picking some of the neighbours cherries (by invitation) as they did not want them. Their tree is much bigger and a different variety of cherry than my tree. Mine are not ripe yet. I only picked one bin, as not all were ripe and the tree was not easily picked. Here is the view from their yard.

So you may have noticed the spindles in the above picture. Yes the crew was on site today and since I only painted three sides of the last load, eventually I figured that I should climb down from the ladder and start staining some more. My reluctance to stain today was because I spent the last three days at it and I was getting tired of it.... Why not pick free cherries. Anyway more on staining later.

Floor guy has all the mats in place in the bedroom and the den. The cable has been tested and now it is layed out in the mat..... Except it's not right. Too bad he left before I could comment. I phoned my contractor and we discussed it.

They had a longer cable for this room but it appeared too long, so a shorter one was used and you can see how he kinda ran out near the end. Well that is exactly where I want the cable as I will walk around the bed to look out the window. If they have to use a shorter cable, they should make the bigger spaces under where the bed will go. This is unacceptable.

Below is the den. Now I am okay with this setup as a daybed will be under the window on the left and the main floor is covered well.

Here is hoping they fix the bedroom.....

Okay outside ..... The back deck is done! All spindles are up and I have stained the fresh cut ends (these were the first ones I stained that did not have the fancy ends).

I will give the brown treated wood cut ends a brown stain and give the whole deck a once over... But not until I almost move in.... After appliances go in!

So the front deck spindles are in place and the fancy ends were stained already. I do need to stain the square ends though. The crew could not put the other spindles in place because they were still damp and I had not stained the post and railings yet. I thought they were going to sand a couple of spots first, but it looks like I will stain again after sanding...... So as everyone was leaving the site for the day I carried on staining until the post and raillngs were done.

There is my cabin in the woods, my little house in the fruit trees....my little house on a basement.