Been a long, long time

Yep, it's been a while but really there wasn't much to see.  OK, I take that back, we have made huge progress!  Without much narrative, here is a series of pictures we have taken:

Flat Flora - here she is all torn apart (this is where we left off in the last post).

A tiny picture of the trailer ready to go to the trailer repair guy - we were going to have her sandblasted.  The guys at the store treated us so shabbily that we decided to clean the frame ourselves.  And we bought a new axle, too, and installed it. Nancy Kroes came over from Kalamazoo to help us put it on and change the angle so we would have more clearance.  Thanks, Nancy!!

Gail spent hours with her angle grinder cleaning the rust off the frame.  It looks pretty good and we found the serial number.  Discovered that Flora is a 1966 Scotty, not 1962 as the seller thought.

We used POR15 on the entire frame.  Nice and shiny!

Here is the doorstep.

We didn't save the floor (a mistake we won't make again), so we had to figure out a way to determine where the floor supports go

Here is the floor (3/4" plywood topped with luan).  Glued, stapled and filled.

 Here's Gail, wielding her paint roller and can of exterior paint.  Two coats.

Here is the floor on the frame.  Just trying it out for size.  

Here is another lovely view of the floor.  It's a bit cattywampus because the wood is a bit warped.  We were reasonably confident it would flatten out after bolting it down.  

So, lots of stuff is missing here.  We moved Flora from Rachel's parents' garage to a location much closer to Ann Arbor.  A friend offered to let us keep the trailer and work on it in her heated barn.  It has made the process so much easier.  

Unfortunately, we picked the only snowy weekend of 2012 to move her.  We rented a moving truck with an auto hauler and went to pick up Flora and all the parts we hadn't attached yet.  Got stuck in the driveway (twice picking her up and once dropping her off).  

We finished the floor, built the drop-down floor and bolted the whole thing down.  Put two coats of Herculiner underneath.  

Here is the floor with part of the Marmoleum tile installed.  This is Rachel's first attempt at laying a tile floor (anywhere).  It went reasonably well considering the frame is crooked, which means the floor is crooked, which means it's really hard to lay straight-edge tile in a straight line.  

And here is the floor with the tile installed and partially trimmed out.  Still need to get the cove molding for the drop down. (And notice that the floor did flatten out after it's bolted down.)

In between all of this, we built the street-side wall.  Here it is, stained and varnished.  

That's it for now!  Until next time (and hopefully not too long) - Rachel & Gail