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1964: after high school life begins. Asked to consider not returning to OSU after the first year. 1966 drafted; grunt, door gunner, HU1 pilot. Out in Dec '70. 1972 married, joined fire dept and bought first house over a 6 month span. 1980 moved family (which now consisted of wife Teri, daughter Amy and son Ryan) to CO. 1990 moved all to bush Alaska to work for the dark side (the FAA). Started Blog to keep family and friends up on our whereabouts. Retired in March 2010. In Feb 2012 sold house in Alaska. By May had bought in Redmond and completed the move. Still nesting in Redmond and loving it!

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Kitchen Pull Outs Update

Not a lot has been accomplished since last update.

Did finish the first cabinet.
Notice that the fronts required cut outs to provide clearance for the door hinges.  This was an aggravating and unforeseen development. It will probably be unavoidable on a few of the drawers yet to go as well.

Decided to do the pantry next. The bottom three drawers will be 32" wide so modifications are necessary. This will involve installing two angle iron headers to make up for removing a section of the center stile. Should all make sense when I get photos of the process.
The center vertical stile will be cut off at the top of the bottom set of doors and be attached to the back of one of them. This will allow the full width drawer shown below. The pieces of angle iron go inside the cabinet and bridges the full width to make up for the removed piece. There will be one behind each horizontal gap between the doors. Simple. I can hardly wait to crawl inside to install them.

I've got two of these assembled. That leaves one more full width and four more half width drawers to assemble before we get to the crawling inside part. Teri's getting antsy.

Good thing the weather is so perfect.