No building this week, just the mundane task of stopping by daily to throw some water on the slab so it cures properly, but here's an update just for funsies!

I have all sorts of awesome ideas floating around in my head, and I'm going to throw them out there just for fun. ...sort of like throwing the gauntlet down on myself... a fight to the death!!! ...two Nathans enter ...one Nathan leaves!!! (...like Thunderdome, but more Gemini).

...anyway, here's my vision for my dream-garage, or at least a rendering of the finish-scheme:

Google Sketchup for the win! This program has been awesome... lets me design and build my project virtually, and make all of my mistakes virtually before they cost me any real money. Good stuff!

The downside of a free blogging platform: you can't rotate a f***ing image! ...I had to re-take this one with it hanging on the wall so my smart-phone would know which way was up. Even rotating and saving the image and re-uploading wouldn't work; blogger.com somehow felt that readers should still have to tilt their heads to the right to view this one. 

Lumber-pile progress... working through the schwag. The good stuff is yet to come!!! (and this stuff is pretty good anyway...)

Lumber package delivered on Friday... a house in compressed form. Now I just have to assemble it. (Just!) I got the 6x8 near the the right of this photo to make the garage door headers, but that is such a nice piece of tight-grain quarter-sawn timber that I'm trying to find an exposed use for it. I can laminate a few 2x8 boards to make headers that are going to be hidden in a wall...

Second stack of lumber. This is the really-good stuff.

Money shot. This is old-growth redwood lumber at $0.50 per board foot... a 90% discount over retail prices for absolutely beautiful finish lumber... finally a win! (getting ready to sell a couple hundred ounces of silver at a 50% loss to cover this, but still ahead even considering the metals-market loss ...got to keep smiling somehow :-)

OK... now it's time to build this!!!