Oceana and I came up for a quick visit on Saturday night. Normally we’d come up on Friday evening but this weekend was a little different. I’m doing a few projects for our church that have some deadlines fast approaching. As such, I spent Friday night and all day Saturday working on those projects. The church purchased the oldest church building in Jupiter, Florida and is currently renovating it. As part of the process, they wanted to integrate many of the 100 year old beams and floor joists into the renovations as an ode to the heritage of the building. It kind of reminds me of 6 Lake Byrd in many ways…. The current project at hand was resawing the 100 year old 8″x8″x15′ floor beams on the sawmill to make them hollow beams so that they could be mounted to the ceiling of the church as faux beams. I had previously resawn them on the mill and I spent Friday night and Saturday prepping the beams and gluing the pieces back together to make the “U” shaped faux beams. Once I got to a good stopping point, we headed up to Lake Byrd.
4 “faux” beams on the top. Sawmill in the background 
Some of the old beams have termite damage 
Planing parts of the beams before assembly
The other reason that this weekend was a little different is that we have family in town. Two of my aunts were staying in Orlando and we planned to get together for lunch on Sunday. Since Lake Byrd isn’t too far from Orlando, they opted to come visit the house and then we ate at Senor Jalapenos in Avon Park. Two thumbs up for good food and good service. It was nice to get together and chat for a bit.
We had a few hours in the morning to get stuff done before we went out to lunch. Oceana started by sweeping out the shop space. This hadn’t been done since we cleared out the shop a few weeks ago. After she finished with the shop, she brushed a coat of TWP deck stain onto the dock. I forgot to get finished pictures of the stained dock but it looks nice!
For me, I was back on the floors. I have big plans for these floors – they’re going to look great. But to get prepped for it, I need to clean out all of the loose stuff from the termite damaged areas. I put a wire wheel on an angle grinder and went to town. This opened up additional damaged areas and cleaned up the existing termite damage. I did about half of the living room floor. Once that was finished, I started filling the termite damage with epoxy. That’s right, an epoxy poured floor. I want the termite damage to still be visible but I still want the floor to be smooth (as smooth as an 85 year old floor can be). Epoxy pouring the damaged areas gives them a 3d effect and gives them additional depth that a normal floor wouldn’t have. These floors are going to be a showpiece when they’re said and done.
Close up of a filled in plank 
The corner of the living room 
The living room floor getting filled
Once it got light on Saturday morning, I took a stroll around the property while having my cowboy coffee. I was slightly surprised to find the large power pole set along the road just behind the property. I guess they’re running new power lines along highway 27.
There was a full moon this weekend so I couldn’t help but to take a picture of the dock in the moonlight through the moss hanging off of the live oak tree.
A full moon over the lake
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Glad you could visit with family while at Byrd Lake. Can’t wait to see the wood floor in the living room and the finished deck outside. You and Oceana are hard workers. Your photo of the full moon with the reflection on the lake was beautiful!
Good to know I’m now a pro at staining the deck!
Yes you are! You did a great job