Finishing Up the Basement Bathroom...

If you remember back to last November when I finished the majority of the downstairs bathroom remodel, I mentioned I still had a couple things to do to make it 100%. I had a couple days off after my last snowmobiling trip, so I took the opportunity to get them finished up.

First, I got the new closet door taken off and painted with two coats of white semi-gloss paint (they were only primed when I originally installed them). Then, I installed new drawer pulls on the cabinets and closet doors (when they were dry). Finally, (with Maeve's help) we fixed the sagging closet shelves, painted the closet, and installed a newly made furnace stack cover.

The entire "finishing up" took about two days, working off and on. I don't know if we will end up painting the cabinets white and replacing the counter or not, I'm kind of getting used to them the way they are!

Getting all these last details completed, really made this bathroom top notch! I'm glad I can finally check this bathroom off my "to-do" list!

February Snowmobile Trip 2011

02/04/11 - 02/06/11

For this trip we headed back up to Larson's cabin in Barnes, WI, but we were going to put a little spin on things. Since we have been snowmobiling out of Larson's cabin for over ten years now, we have pretty much seen everything we can within riding distance. So the plan this weekend was to snowmobile from the cabin on Friday and then trailer the snowmobiles to Hayward, WI and ride from there.

The trip started off about the same, leaving home early on Friday morning and getting up to the cabin and hitting the trails. The group this time didn't change much, we just lost one: Brian Larson, Phil Larson, Brian Moline, Dad, and myself. The trails were in OK condition, some areas were kinda thin, a good ten miles were rutted pretty bad, but overall, I have rode on much worse! The temperatures were warm (as far as snowmobiling goes) in the high 20's. It was really nice riding from Hayward and allowing us to experience and see different things. We did a ton of lake riding, which we typically never have to do. I think we will keep doing one day of "trailered" riding in the future just to keep things fresh.

Again, we typically ate breakfast (which again consisted of a VERY tasty egg bake, Shannon sent up with us) at the cabin then lunch and dinner on the trail. The nights we all spent chatting around the fireplace at the cabin with some scotch and beer. I had the only mechanical issues again with my fouling spark plug. We got the sleds loaded up on Saturday night in Hayward and drove back to the cabin. We woke up the next day and hit the road for home around 0900 on Sunday morning!

We put on another 160 miles or so over the weekend and we all had a great time! I don't know if this will be the last trip for the year or not, but either way, it was a great snowmobiling season!