Friday The skirt trim needs to be installed before the stairs; that keeps the pretty finish cuts much simpler. I spent the whole day carefully measuring and cutting these boards. They're ridiculously expensive pieces of wood; I didn't want to make any mistakes. Success was getting far enough I could put a first coat of finish on them. Saturday Two more coats of finish on the skirts. While those dried, I installed the last two riser spacers. I rounded the exposed edge of the car decking floor to help it fit in with the round noses of the oak stair treads that will lead up to it. I mowed the weeds. And I saw this little guy. I didn't know we had mantises here! The praying worked; he or she escaped the mower. Sunday The skirts are dry, so they got installed. I made pieces of trim that go where treads and risers need to abut them, and got them finish coated. I cut and installed most of the risers, excepting the two that should be fit over the landing flooring. This one riser wa...