Beat the Rain

With rain moving into southern Ohio, it was a good day to take advantage of Nic's Ranger to get more ceiling boards before the moisture arrived. I also picked up finished hickory to cap the ridge beam. During initial construction, we used 2x10s bolted, nailed and glued together to make the ridge beam to hang the rafters from. Although functional, its not very attractive from the underside so I'll stain the hickory and dress it out.  With dark clouds above and a deluge just minutes away, it was a stressful 25 minute drive worrying that I would get all that green pine and expensive hickory wet. Thankfully, it was only sprinkling as I arrived at the cabin from Menard's. Once stacked inside, a change of direction had me up on a ladder staining the new finish boards and trim installed around the skylights. Afterwards, a third and final coat of stain was put on a group of boards and 10 of the new boards were sanded, vacuumed and stained with the first coat.