April 29 and 30 - Work Weekend

Spring is here.  There is still snow on all the peaks around the lodge - and 3 piles of snow from roof run off - but the snow is gone everywhere else at Emigrant Gap.  This weekend Jim continued to work on wiring in the Snow Entry Room and the Screened in Deck (also known as the Ahwahnee Room).  We will be adding two ceiling fans, outdoor string lights and lots of plugs in the Screen room and plugs and many many lights in the Snow room (probably much more than we need).

I continued to paint the old bedrooms upstairs.  We will be busy again this summer - so the remodel on these rooms (down to the studs) will have to wait a while.  Here is an after picture of mom's room after painting the Wains Coating.  Not quite as a dramatic change as Mary Beth's room - but it looks a lot nicer.  I also put real trim around the window (we had temporary trim up for the last 7 years).

I went ahead and stained the floors in both Mary Beth's and Mom's room for now (they will need to be sanded, stained and varnished when we do the remodel to these rooms - but for now - they are improved. 

We also finally mudded the ceiling in the Dining Room (in a previous post, we noted that the sever weather over the winter caused a ceiling collapse in part of the room).  

Other than that, we are enjoying spring, clearing branches off the property and out of the creek, stacking them for a future week's bonfire.  

Next time we are at the lodge, we will be picking up more rocks from the landslide and most likely doing a big Saturday debris burn.  

Mother's day is in a couple of weeks and we will have family up for the occasion.  Hope we have a great weekend!  No new history to post - still need to go to the musuems to see what they have since I have exhausted all of the online news papers and posts.