Chache Creek

 Tuesday morning saw me and Rick making a pallet for his generator, chores done I was back on the bike a headed south on 97 had lunch at fort Alexandria and continued down the road ,and had to get gas in LacLaHasche but was soon turning eastward on hwy 24 towards Little Fort ,what an awesome rode for a motorcycle very winding but it was getting hot glad I was going down that last stretch (about 9 km of 8% grade) and not climbing up on a day like that. Then turning south on hwy5 it was off to Kamloops (40*c) and suddenly I was riding in a blast furnace the turning west on hwy1 it was off to  Chache Creek it was only 34 there been a long time since I’ve been on that stretch of road I’d forgotten how curvey it was made up for the heat

 On Monday it was just a short ride from Mcbride to stoner got June and Rick’s verily early as usual was a very warm greeting . Helped With a chore or two then Rick made an excellent butter chicken for supper,afterwards he took me out on the river with the boat which was awesome then sat around the fire and chatted before bed.

 So I made it to Mcbride today via the Yellowhead with side jaunts at RR14 where I met Mark at the Hoss Hill ranch and continued along to Parkland dr and followed it back to the yellowhead turning south to Darwell and west onto 663 I followed it back to where the Sturgeon river crosses the Yellowhead then continued until Entwhistle and took the 16A from Evensberg to Wildwood then back on the Hwy stopped and got gas at Niton junction and took a rest break near Obed summit gas again in Hinton and Mcbride where I got a room at the Bell mountain motel ate supper at the sandman inn.

Flooring

This past week John laid the laminate flooring.  It really helps bring the room together. Everyday he did a bit.

 We thought he would finish the floor yesterday but lo and behold we were 3 planks short.  

Off to Lowes we went for another box.  It will be done today or tomorrow.  

Destruction Complete

We are officially done destruction.  Yahoo.  John applied a coat of primer today.   Yesterday we picked up our paint, laminate, and ordered our cupboards. We have chosen bamboo for our butcher block.  We have yet to find door knobs and order our counter tops.  We need to wait till they can measure for the counter tops.  Progress is amazing.

Choosing Paint

John has started the muddling and plastering.  As he does this we are trying to choose our paint Color.   John painted squares on the wall where different light and shadows will happen so we can decide between our top two colors.  Hopefully one of them turns out as we imagined.

Putting it back together

With all the destruction it is hard to see any progress in the Reno however John is a trooper and just plods along his Merry way dealing with each task.  After he added a couple more plugs, added additional support to the structure, and filling in the gap where the in wall ironing board he has started the preliminaries for putting it back together. He has started filling in holes in preparation for muddling. He hopes to start muddling this weekend. Oh the dust there will be 😳. One step closer to being done but oh so far away.