The Gold Street Cabin In Mammoth, Utah

It was forecast to be 32 degrees Sunday night and 28 Monday night so Barbara thought she had better cover her plants.  She made little individual green houses with garbage bags over all of the plants except the strawberries.  They seem to do okay in cold whether. Barbara left the garbage bags on the plants an extra day because we had planned to put hardware cloth under the plants.  It is such a chore to unwrap everything that she didn't want it to do it twice in two days.  The hardware cloth is very hard to work with.  Don is unrolling it the other direction so he can lay it down.  Don feels that gophers could still eat the roots of the plants and that is why he is laying down the hardware cloth. The plants seemed to do okay in their garbage bag green houses, except the pepper plant seems to be struggling. Some of the bean plant died and the cherry tomato has some brown leaves.  It must have gotten too hot for them. Don started paint...

Don discovered that the two balcony brackets were not completely identical, so he had to belt sand one to match the other, because the balcony itself will not be flexible. After carefully measuring the distance between the studs where the brackets will be attached outside, Don clamped them to the stairwell wall inside temporarily, so he can work on the balcony out of the wind. The complete balcony will consist of two brackets, the floor frame, the flooring, two corner posts, and four gates, plus the batter board already installed on the wall outside. Everything else will be fabricated and fit together inside, then transferred outside and permanently attached. Everything must be checked for plumb, level, and square at each step of construction. The completed structure, not counting corner posts and gates. The white flooring board is quite heavy, being made of fiberglass-covered, dense compressed wood. All but the edges are waterproof. The edges will be covered with painted,...