I took this great shot of “the doors to nowhere”—all the stained doors drying in the barn. The painters take them out of their jams, take the hinges off and stain them, then re-hang them in their jams and set them upright to dry.

It is kind of amusing to make your way through the maze of open doors set up in this third of the barn.

Many years ago, I had a birthday party where I set up a maze to enter the festivities. In that venue, we didn’t really have enough space to do a proper job on the maze. Little did I know that all you need is quite a large space and a whole lot of doors in door jams to make a great maze.

Here is Kai’s helper working on the brackets that came from New Mexico in the shrink-wrap. We had thought that the company would carve a grooves on either side of the upright arm of the brackets, so that the stucco can tuck in underneath.

However, it turns out that there was a misunderstanding and they were not set up to do it. Kai’s helper is doing them instead.