Lemons 09

As regular viewers of this blog will recall*, last year's harvest was 2.
I am happy to report this year's yield is 9!
What to do with ALL THOSE Lemons?
Simple math suggests that by 2010, this little tree will deliver 37. Right?
let me check the lemon yield formula 4x+1=y where "x" is the previous year yield and "y" represents the next years yield...yup 37!
Put your order in early. The '09 lemons are already spoken for.

*new viewers, click on older posts and go to february 08 "Lemons."

Attic stairs

My old attic stairs always bothered me.
They were rickety and the rusty spring that closed the hatch never completely closed.
This was especially problematic because the stair opening is directly above my thermostat.
So in extreme weather, cold or hot air would leak from the attic directly to the thermostat which was a bad situation.Here is the install in progress.
One problem I ran into was the old opening was about a 1/2" too small.
I do have a reciprocating saw which I used to widen the opening.
But my saw is a cordless kind, so it took several recharges to complete that part of the task.

Here is the view from below.
There is a temporary board holding the ladder in place while I used shims to make the new stairs square and flush to the opening.

The new ladder has a gas shock style closer.
I'm hoping it lasts.
It does close the door nicely as of this post.

And here is the finished install.
I still need to put some trim pieces around the rough opening the clean up the edges.

Dining Room Table

With the new year we decided to replace our old dining room table.
Here's a look at the new one.
Its round and solid. 72" across.


I'm especially impressed with the base which neither of us paid much attention to in the store.
My uncle has a wood lathe, but I'm not sure he would turn something as big as this.