whynot finishes the damn closet already!

damn, I need some grow lights.

...and a High Times subscription.

Episode #6

As promised, today's episode involves a trip to Lowes!
...I was running dangerously low on lumber and nails.

Here's the lovely starting point:


Here's the even better looking destination:
(trees and water features just can't compete with a parking lot, huge florescent "LOWES" sign, the Gowanus "Expressway" and a metal recycling facility)



must. resist. buying. decorative. molding.


must get home with lumber before subway is flooded with people who still work for a living.



A picture with a dog AND lumber!
...there's no way those "naughty photos" on the internet can compete.



Tune in tommorrow for "building the frame and door"

P.S. While you weren't looking I finished painting the lower closet, and then filled it with its previous crap, putting us an entire episode AHEAD OF SCHEDULE. (see if you ever hear that from the MTA....)

For those keeping track. $68 was spent today at Lowes on nails, 1" x 5" x 6' lumber, 1" x 4" x 6' lumber, a knob, and 16' of non-exciting 3" molding.

Total spent to date: $90.
The workroom generously contributed paint and hinges, so we have now spend the whole budget: $100.

The camera bag holds the plastic bags that are re-used on Dude's walks.
...between reusing bags and picking bags blowing around, we've never needed to buy poop bags.

The clock is a train clock, it whistles on the hour. ...it goes with the model train on the ceiling.

you are correct, and incorrect.

Correct: If the train was a bacon train, the clock would appropriately have to be a bacon clock.

Incorrect: "it would be better"

greetings, and welcome to Episode #7:
"Building and painting the good frame."

Today involved fun with the chopping miter saw.
Using scraps of wood as shims, and (you guessed it) paint.

Here's the snazzy frame. Plumb in all directions as per the square and the level.


And here's that same frame, under its first coat of paint:



And here's a shot of my dog lying by my shoes so when I go out, so does he (the shot also contains just a small hint of how sexy my legs are). sexting?



...and then they went to the park. See you Tuesday, when we built the door.

someone has dubbed Billy Mays....

inserted pottie mouth words.

Anyway, nope, it's not a substitute for wood filler.

we'll see. The panel was put in with some glue and brads, but there is lots of room around the panel. (see shot above)

The door is also almost 2" thick, and now covered in several layers of paint so it would have to get really cold and dry for it to be effected.

The paint will dry overnight, and we should be able to hang the door tomorrow. ...our final episode (sadness).