Can you ever have too much wood?

Wood! Jim's passion is working with wood and there's nothing like really getting to know your wood!   Over the last couple of months we've worked with local wood guru and mill owner Greg Williams to get our pine wood together for our ceiling project.  And it smells amazing. So fresh! Greg and Jim speak wood together.

Of course you have to bring the wood home, clean it off and stack it.  We pack, we unpack.

We got this stuff stacked at 9:00 at night because we were leaving on the 8:00 a.m. ferry in the morning.  It was a really zen like evening of quietly working away at it.

I carried clean boards from the driveway across the porch and then slid them down the outside
of the railing to table we set up below.  Jim's stacking the boards by flood light.

The drying process takes quite a while so Jim built this breezy but shaded structure to protect it over the coming months. 

Not only is wood outside but our house's lower level is now full of beautiful wood panels stacked and covered and waiting til they become part of our home.  Sometime in the next few months we'll be putting the panels and trim up in our living / dining / kitchen space above and around our windows.  Not much drywall in this house!

You may recall we also have the cool figured beach log waiting for us to go and get it to create something amazing.

Scoping it out. 

Tricky cutting the end off it and turning it but we're getting there.  Now we need to drive
our truck down the beach, strap it up and use a come-along to hoist it into our truck.

Rocks and Trees! Always rocks and trees.

Life is good!

Tricia and Jim