Creating sawdust is fun, as long as the bits not turned to sawdust are at least vaguely useful for something....
The new panels look OK put approximately into place. I need to let the stain fully dry and get some bug screen material stapled to the back, and maybe trim them so they aren't quite such a tight fit, and then we're good to go.
Heavy rain so far today. Heavy enough I'd rather not even walk the short distance from the parking to the hardware store to get the bug screen material I need. Guess it's a day for wall building.... I showed a sample of the salvaged wood to a friend. Turns out much of it is spruce. It might be 90 years old but it's spruce - as he put it, soft and not very pretty. So I don't think I'll bother salvaging it for reuse as baseboards, at best I'll use it to make a door frame, window trim or similar. That's handy - the pieces are big enough to be unwieldy and since they have no particular value I can cut them into smaller pieces without the fear that I'll subsequently find they'd have been worth a chunk of change if I'd left them alone.
BTW, be praying for the people in Florida. We have a hurricane headed our way. It's scheduled to be a category 3 when it makes landfall in the Big Bend area, somewhere around Tallahassee. Subject to the whims of the hurricane.
It made landfall at Perry, FL at approximately 8 AM as a Category 4. It wobbled some, as all Hurricanes do, but no sudden turns.
Interesting jaunt this afternoon. I found about a place about an hour and a half away where there's a huge sunflower field and you can go and walk among the sunflowers. It turned out you couldn't walk anywere near as far through them as I'd expected but it was an amazing sight. You're allowed to take them away as well - they have honesty boxes for you to put the money in. So we looked at a lot of sunflowers, then had dinner out and an unexpected adventure on the way home when I missed a turn and the GPS tried to take me to a dead end on an unpaved road.
IMHO, GPS means "Getting People So Lost." I used to be the directions expert at a hotel. 90% of the people who called saying they were lost were following a GPS.
It does do some interesting things, that's for sure. Yesterday the problem was that I missed a turn and the GPS tried to recover the situation. But instead of just saying "turn around" it decided to let me drive a couple of miles and then tried to turn me around in ever-smaller roads. Stlll, it beats the time years ago that my GPS told me to "turn right in 100 yards" when there wasn't even any sign of a break in the hedge beside the (single lane) road, and then insisted I should turn right despite the presence of the hedge. When I cycled everywhere it very helpfully suggested I turn right onto a motorway. Quite aside from the undesirability of turning right when no such turn existed - I was on a bridge that ran over the motorway - and the difficulties of turning across that many lanes of traffic anyway, bicycles aren't allowed on motorways at all.
"GPS took me on a dead end road, honey..." Is that the 2023 equivalent of the 1960's, "oh no, honey, we ran out of gas... What do we do now?" You sly dog.
Interesting theory but curiously (and, to be honest, I don't know I'd believe the story if I heard it second hand) as I was backing out of the gravel single-track road with the No Outlet sign, after dark, in the absolute middle of nowhere, there was a car behind me waiting to turn into the lane. Maybe their GPS was also - ahem - misdirecting them....
I finally got around to fixing the screen in front of the air conditioning duct. The woodwork that once covered the space is now back, with ventilation cut into it, the cut edges stained, bug screen behind it (more to catch cat hair than bugs), and put back in place. I even found the original piece of trim to sit across the bottom of it. It looks like it was always there. Probably because it was, but it doesn't look like it's been removed, modified, and put back into place.
Chillin' around Calgary for the next little while. Was kinda wondering how I'd see things, with these 'new' eyes of mine. I don't like.
Started framing the wall in the next room to be finished. I decided not to worry too much about everything being perfectly perpendicular - I think just working with a simple stand-off from the wall is going to result in angles that are about 0.4 degrees off perpendicular, which I think is close enough.