So I ended up sanding a piece of the oak trim like crazy last night. After having stained it, I could see that the shaper they used was on it’s “dimensioning” setting rather than is “finishing” setting when the trim was made. The mill marks were attrocious. High-quality trims these days you barely have to [...]

Last night I finished sanding up the hunk of oak to cap off the wall between the kitchen and the great room. It looks great! I think I’m going to use some rather unorthodox methods to attach it, but we’ll see. The countertop was held on with liquid nails, but that didn’t hold very well [...]

Well it’s over. The craziness is subsiding. Amazingly it’s actually subsiding. I didn’t really expect it to, but it appears that it is. I’m back at work today. Kylene starts classes tomorrow. We’ve got a bedroom full of gifts we have yet to open and go through. We have a ton of work to do [...]

The honeymoon in review is at http://www.varnernet.com/honeymoon/ We wrote all this in iWeb at the Charlotte airport and in the plane to Indy. It only took a short while, and we did all the photo work with iPhoto. I have to say, the applications Apple makes sure make this one-off stuff super easy.