Vent Hood and other necessities

This past visit, we worked on two items that have been high on my wish list. The first is the range vent hood. For a long time, now, there's been a glaring hole in the brick that I've longed to see filled. I finally got my wish.

Gerald made the vent hood cabinet and painted it at the shop, but snow was predicted for our last visit, so we brought the truck. Gerald had been worried that the cabinet would be damaged in the open truck bed.

In fact, it did snow. All our dinner guests on Friday night reported driving home in near blizzard conditions.

Anyway, we finally got it up. On the ground, it looked enormous.

But it looked right sized on the wall.

I made two trips to the hardware store in Yarnell to pick up supplies for the pipe. The first time, they left out a part that I didn't catch, and gave me one wrong item.

After returning from my second trip and painting everything black, we discovered that the pipe that was supposed to be six feet was only five. So JC rigged up a support until we could close the gap. Must not have been a good day at Yarnell Hardware.

Meanwhile, JC had welded up some handles for the barn door, and he got them installed.

For the rest of the day, he worked on some plumbing issues and installed our screen doors. The screen doors went up just in time. The temperature was a perfect 80 degrees, warm enough to bring out a few wasps.