After we ran the boards through the drum sander, we moved them up hill into the house and stacked them on saw horses. The next step was to get the boards trued on one edge. Jon chose a wide pine board to secure the board to and ran it through the table saw to true the edge. He unsecured the board and stacked it on another set of saw horses, until each board was trued. Then he ran each board through the table saw, to edge the other side cutting them into standard widths.
I didn't get any photos of Jon and I using the router to cut a rabbit edge on each side of the boards. After that step was complete, we hung the boards on the kitchen and dining area walls, using the brad nailer.
Sunday, July 22 was our fun day. That was the day we hung the aromatic cedar boards on the wood stove wall. Our supply of cedar boards came from various places. Some were in trade with our Amish friend in Ethridge, TN for oak boards we had harvested ourselves. Jimmy Hedden, our sawmill friend, gave us several boards . The other boards were milled by Jimmy out of the logs we were given by Denny and Shirley Tallent, in Tunnel Hill, GA.
Each day we continued the process of hanging the boards on the walls, until my Father died. After our trip to Mississippi for the funeral, we got back to the job. Terry and Marcy spent a day and a half of their vacation with us. Since the children were vacationing in Florida with Marcy's parents, Marcy pitched in to help. One of the things she did was to put the plugs into the screw holes in the three exterior doors. Terry helped with plaining out some of the walls, planing boards, and moving railroad ties. He helps us, whenever he can get extra time off work. He is general manager of a new, up, and coming restaurant chain called Lizard's Thicket. They will be opening two more restaurant soon, which keeps him busy.
