Devon, who was taking Kai’s place for the week, installed the interior doors in the cottage.

Here is the linen closet door in the bathroom.

The sliding doors for the closet have been installed and they are nice and sturdy. Light-weight sliders just don’t slide that well, so it’s important to have reasonably heavy ones if they are to work well.

Here you can see how nice they look in the room. Before the closet was drywalled, it looked fairly insignificant, but after the drywall went on, it seemed to loom into the room. With the doors on, it kind of disappears and once the refrigerator goes in next to it, I think it will fit in even better.

In this picture, the paint sample on the wall seems almost tomato red, but in real life, it is a great terra cotta.

I had to go to Costco to buy a mini fridge for the party. Of course you can’t just get what you went for when you go to Costo. My find this time was this groovin’ stainless steel rolling tool bench with a wood top, on-special for $40.00 off the list price ’cause it was the last one.

It is so cool, we may use it as an island in the cottage kitchen, but if not, it will be a terrific addition to the barn tool area when we eventually get it in.

The porta-potties arrived from The Royal Flush, an excellent company that keeps the porta-potty we normally have clean and useable.

The also lent us the hand-washing station that you see next to the row of porta-potties. Lurking behind it is one of the galvanized steel garbage cans I bought because they are less likely to blow away in our wind.

By Friday afternoon, things were looking good—ready to decorate for the party. My assistant and I had potted up a rose during the week, and I had brought up my carriage wheel.

I bought it for myself last Christmas from a website selling Amish-made items. It is an actual front wheel for an Amish carriage—the back wheels are larger. I guess you could call it an Amish spare tire. The website also sells wagon wheels, one of which I may get later. I know it’s hokey, but I think they look cool.

The DG, once compacted, becomes quite hard and you can actually drive on it without disturbing it. As you can see, it looks great and really makes the cottage look terrific, even if it is still unfinished.