100 Year Old Floorboards...

 So, with the work done on the construction phase of the siding and windows project, our attention has turned to staining and caulking.  After quite a bit of deliberation we've decided on Ready Seal Stain and Sealer. It comes with high marks and  some good recommendations.  These are the samples they provide. We'll use the Dark Walnut (which isn't "dark" at all, more of a medium, almost Pecan color).

And while we await delivery of the stain I was informed that there are still quite a few interior projects that, in one resident's opinion, are "unfinished" like a door frame and doors for the front hall closet...

So, by the grace of God we happened to have two doors which were
initially intended to be put together for a bi-fold door.  These doors were constructed of 100 year old center cut tongue and groove pine flooring.  Once I built the doors it became obvious that they would be too heavy to use as a bi-fold and I stacked them away.  We brought them up from NC and they've been sitting on my "scrap shelves" in the shop for a year and a half.  

My lovely wife suggested they might work and they were a perfect fit.

The real story in my mind, however was what happened while working on them. They needed a bit of trimming, some finish sanding and of course some hinges.  So I set to work and methodically set the hinges, sanded the surface and otherwise prepped them for hanging.  But as I was mortising the hinges with the multi-tool the smell that arose was something out of heaven.  These 100+year old center cut pine flooring planks, in response to the heat of the multi-tool, brought forth sap, boiling sap!  The smell was, well unparalleled.  Perhaps for some that sounds a bit twisted, but anyone who has worked with type of flooring understands.  That rich pine smell...

This is almost hardwood hardness pine. Old growth, likely yellow pine. As I sit here tonight jotting these silly notes, I can still smell that smell...The doors are hung, although there are still some adjustments and trim work to do, but that will have to wait for the next order of wood which includes some 1x10's to finish the windows (with the insulation and all the building up we'll have 9" wide window sills!) In the meantime I'll be on the ladder staining...