Late Saturday Night

It is a late night. Not too much happening. Thought I'd try and post from my Blackberry again. Did get my trestle done, painted and rehung. It looks great, picture coming soon.

From the Bus

Thought I'd try and post this while on the bus heading home. Not relly a lot to say, other than it seems to be working.

The sun finally made it out again. I am going to dig up some paint for the trestle tonight, to at least get ready for the weekend. I may then run down to the driving range and beat some balls up after that, so I can avoid 'Big Brother'.

Working on the trestle

I got all of the perpendicular boards cut and mounted across the top. The horizontal boards dried out pretty fast, and all of the tight joints are now loose. I'll paint them next, maybe this weekend.

Meanwhile I started on a new project. This is a holder for my large carvings so I can use a mallet on them. The design is simple, and I'll post it when it is done, along with a picture of the bust that I worked on in the carving class. I'm using myrtal wood for the holder, cause I need to use a hardwood and I have a lot of that around.

Let the chips fly......bye.

Here's the picture of the trestle in its current form. I'm still waiting for the wood to dry out.
The end shot is to see the way the wood ends have been cut, the second shot is to see the overall look. Again, I still need to put 2x2 pieces across the top (after it drys out). I'm willing to bet the long boards were trees less than 30 days ago. I probably should have edited the pictures first.

Enjoy.

Well, the trestle is over half done. The supports are up and the long boards. The next step is adding 2x2s from sticking out from the garage. I'll try to grab a picture tonight. It's looking good, though we are debating on the color to paint it, white or the dark green of the trim.

Fitting the supports to the garage was a pain since the exterior molding is not flat. I trimmed it close with a bandsaw and used a file to create the curves.

Barb and I saw trestle over the garage of a neighbors house, so now I am building one. I stopped and talked with the neighbor to see how he built it. The hard part was figuring out how he attached it to the garage door frame. I had come up with some ideas, and one of them proved right.

He used metal angle brackets to join the supports to the wall and painted them to match. From the street you can't tell they are there. That will be my next project, given some time. With luck I'll work on it tomorrow night and Friday.

Although Friday I do need to take some time and go get a driver for my golf bag. It's time I started using one instead of a 3 wood. I may ask about a utility wood at the same time.

Catch you later.

The new Harry Potter book came out, so I picked up a copy on Saturday night after Barb and I saw the movie "No Reservations". The movie was nice, most of it seem sad, and parts were a little slow until later in the show. Definitely a 'chick flick' but I enjoyed it anyway. No action, violence, sex or bad language, but a nice story.

I picked up HP about 9:30pm, read until 1am, then read from 7am until 4:30pm, with several minor interruptions (bringing in the groceries, petting the cat, lunch.) I won't talk about it here, but the book stayed in context, though was long in places. About 750 pages.

I redid my comcast web site, so take a look there for pictures.