10/5/19
(Above: Trim placed along the interior side of the bathroom’s pocket jamb. It is almost invisible because of the way it blends in with the chamber’s curved galvalume.)
Building Summary: Today was an active day, but I will attempt to include as much as possible in as conservative a form as possible. This means a list, so here goes (the items of this sequence are listed in chronological order): went to the farmer’s market, procured/put away vegetation/seafood at Old-house, made bread dough, and brought the dough down to Jacobhouse. Then, while the bread was rising on Jacobhouse’s porch I started the oven preheating, measured the bathroom doorway dimensions for trim, moved the big white pickup truck out to Madre’s workshop at her bequest, procured a few pieces of aluminum angle stock (a 10′ length of 2-inch stock and two 10′ lengths of 1-inch stock), cut these to the lengths required by the bathroom door (79.5″ on bathroom side, 80.25″ for the hallway side), and then brought those strips out to Jacobhouse. I did not put them up because I planned on riveting them and the drill was being used in another container, so instead I continued wiping the south wall as the bread finished rising and as it cooked. To finish off the morning, I brought a freshly-wrought roll to Wag who took a bite out of it while it was still very warm. He seemed to enjoy it quite a lot.
(8:17 PM Update): This afternoon, I installed the pieces of aluminum angle-stock trim that I cut earlier, and I vacuumed up the galvalume remnants from the floor.
TIL: Today I learned why ovens have vents. I’m not referring to old, flame-heated stoves; they needed vents so the fire could breathe. No, I mean electric range ovens, and the vent I’m referring to usually has an outlet hole somewhere on the stovetop*. The reason for such a vent, is that it allows some heat to escape as hot air from the appliance’s heating chamber (and at the same time allows outside air to enter through an inlet which circulates the air ever so slightly and creates an evenly-distributed heating environment).
To add to this, there are of course the extremists who state that if a self-cleaning oven did not have a vent, it would explode during the cleaning process due to the door’s being locked and air being unable to escape around the seams of the appliance’s front door.
I think I’ll just settle for the first reason.
Commentary: I now have an actual date I would like to be moved into Jacobhouse by: October 19th. That is my brother’s birthday, and I reckon that giving him sole possession of the office room at Old-house will be as great a gift as I have ever given him.
As for today’s highlights, they both have something to do with this morning’s cooking. The first highlight would be the smell. Due to the ‘first cooking’ and its subsequent industrial smells being taken care of yesterday, the smell produced this day was primarily that of freshly baked bread. Also, because Jacobhouse is a somewhat small abode (at least compared to Old-house), the welcoming scent saturated the air to a point that I had never experienced before. As a matter of fact, I could almost taste the bread without having to eat it!
The second highlight came about in both a figurative and literal sense, and so as not to ruin the wordplay, I will instead include a video:
Final Note: Tomorrow I plan on wiping my way down the walls of Jacobhouse a tad further and working more on the ‘life supply list’.
*For Jacobhouse’s oven, that outlet hole is directly beneath the hind right burner.