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September 25th 2003

Becky and I were a bit hung over today. We invited our friends Dave and Ellen over to hang out for the evening and everyone ended up enjoying themselves way too much, so this morning did not start out at the usual pace... We went out for a big breakfast and it took until around noon for me to feel like working on anything.

	We stopped by the bus and picked up some tools so we could remove more items from the donor trailer. We managed to get quite a few things considering that neither Becky nor I had much energy. We took all of the cabinet doors and drawers in hopes that we can use most (if not all) of them in the bus. The hinges, latches and door guides are pretty expensive to buy. I also know how long it can take to build cabinet doors and drawers from scratch, so we're thinking that we'll just sand them smooth and paint over the wood that's there already.
	I dropped Becky and Emily off at the house. Becky was done for the day (I couldn't blame her), and Erika was due home in about 1/2 hour, so I headed off to the bus to drop off all of the parts that we had scavenged from the donor trailer. One of the items that we hadn't been too sure of was a table in the trailer. We ended up finding 2 extra leaf sections that make the table right around 4 feet long. We're not happy with the fake wood laminate, but the it seems to be in good enough shape to warrant some restoration and a new surface or something. I think we'll end up using it across from the kitchen counters. I was going to build something from scratch, but I can't pass up the opportunity to build off of something that already works.
	It took me about an hour to unload and stow away everything that we had loaded into the Jeep. As you can see, we will be saving quite a bit of time if we can reuse even 3/4 of the doors or drawers.
	I had been thinking about the bathroom door yesterday, so I went ahead and pulled the pocket door from the trailer thinking that I might be able to use it for the bathroom door in the bus. As it turns out, the pocket door fits PERFECTLY. The door is 21.5 inches wide. the space that I have to work with is 43 inches wide. The door will slide right next to the cabinets in the bathroom and not hang out into the doorway at all. With a bit of trim around the door, there will be no gap when the door is closed either. I grabbed all of the hardware for the pocket door, so as soon as the paneling in the bathroom is up, I can hang the door and other than a quick sanding and paint job, it will be finished.

I didn't get any farther on putting up the wall framing or paneling the inside of the bus, but I do have a good feeling about the cabinet doors and drawers, so that has left me feeling like we got quite a bit done again today.