A couple of items from the Party

During the get together we had everyone (and will continue to) sign the glulam bench. This was not an original idea as a friend of mine had people sign the wall of the ante-room to the sauna at their family cabin in northern Minnesota. We also saw this "signing of everything" at the bar across from the Hotel California in Baja a few years back.

I don't know if it is a "Kilroy" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilroy_was_here ) thing, but I kinda looked at it as a mark in history gesture. We will bring it out at the 50th in 2034 and see who is still around to scribble and/or dribble?) on their sig.

Another item that seems to have caught peoples fancy was the scrap table Marlys and I put together a couple of weeks before the party. Marlys thought that with all of the chairs we really needed something in the center to set 'stuff" on. We combed through the scrap pile and rescued some old glulam post cut offs for the legs and a longer piece that was re-sawn for the sides. The tile is also leftover from the build and this was our first tile setting effort. The tile is laid on two layers of 3/4" plywood (have to see how that works long term.

We set the tile with a acrylic mastic and grouted using sanded caulk (normally for kitchen counter back splash use. We thought we would need to accommodate some movement, so we will need to see if the experiment actually worked.

There must have been some shrinkage in the side boards which surprised me in that the chunk of glulam had been sitting around the barn for over 3 years, because my miter joints were perfect upon assembly. Must have been the power of it sitting in the high altitude sun.