Vacation right after the holiday break?!

Thanks to Fred and Diane we are looking forward to our honeymoon cruise in the eastern carribean! This is a photo of the ship we will be on for 7 days. We can not believe we are going on such a nice trip, and we know little about the details so we are excited to pleasently surprised each day.

Ripping good time

Here is Brodie opening his first present of the season. He got the idea right away and was the center of attention for long enough to prove that there are no grand kids at the Browder family Christmas yet :) Brenda you really should get on that...

Deflection

Here you can see whats left of the load bearing wall that is going to give us 2 more feet in our 8 foot wide kitchen. There is only 2 studs left supporting the ceiling joists above. I've sistered the 2x4 joists above and they are not ending on top of this wall but it does help decrease the span as 2x4s are too small to make this span unassisted. Our house was built in 1941 and is lightly built as far as I can tell.

I just bought a 10 foot 4x10 beam to put above the joists, allowing them to hang from this beam. It's sitting in our living room now waiting for 3 strong people to hoist it into the attic! It was sitting outside in the rain at the lumber yard so hopefully once it drys out it will be lighter.

After consulting with Cheryl's Dad, Jackie the plan is to jack up the wall slightly so it's not saging then attached the joists to the beam with "huricane ties".

I just got my new framing nailer, a cheapo from Harbor Freight. You can see it in the lower left corner. It made framing this wall for our breakfast bar much easier for a un-skilled home owner like my self. You can also see the 4x10 beam that allowed us to open the walls. This wall is non load bearing but it will be when I take out the wall behind the fridge.

Seattle Snow

This photo was taken early in the storm but we got a foot of snow at our house in Seattle. The city basicly shut down. We still haven't had garbage pickeup in almost a month.

Brodie in a Hoodie

Shameless dog photo Alert.

tokidoki Art Reception at Evo Gear

tokidoki artist Simone Legno comes to Seattle! The collaboration between Ride and tokidoki will be highlighted in the evo TimesInfinity Gallery for the month of December. Opening night event will be an incredible opportunity to see the person behind the tokidoki movement and a broad collection of his work. Join us for a beer, prizes, tokidoki/Ride products, wall mural by Simone, tunes, and a chance to win a piece of tokidoki art!
Dec 5th - 7pm, free event
evo TimesInfinity Gallery - 122 NW 36th St.

Click here for more info and evo's blog page!

I made a playlist of old punk rock for this event. Should be fun to see all the tokidoki fans in Seattle and have them check out our Ride Snowboard Collaboration with toki. http://my.ridesnowboards.com/artists/tokidoki

Photos from the event:


We made it on Snowboarder Magazine's site.