1st September 2017
So this was going to be the first work day, although I had started yesterday. There needed to be a bit more repair to the other side,so I started up the cement mixer for more “Bondo”.
There are two projects that I hope to complete whilst I’m here, one is a repurposed dresser that will need divine intervention to be possible, the other is a big red bastard that used to be a entertainment centre. Now seeing this is America, their idea of an entertainment centre is the equivalent of a small cinema in the U.K.
Kelli’s plans was to convert it to a bookcase, but in my opinion the cabinet is too deep. So my plan is to cut the thing through the middle of the side, and reduce its depth to something that equates to a normal bookcase.
This is not going to be easy. I have decided tocall this cabinet “Maximilian” after the big evil robot in the 1979 film “Black Hole” it could be a bridge too far, but I like a challenge.
In the Afternoon I went down to Saugatuck. Kelli works at a used book store called “Booked for the season” a few times a week, so I went along.
I met up with Ron, who runs a workshop that makes all kinds of interesting wooden stuff. “Well hello Captain” (he has always called me that, even though he looks like Captain Birdeye)
“You’re going to be here a while, when can you start working with me?” I laughed, ” I have to perform enough miracles all ready”.
Saugatuck is my kind of place, not that it’s full of gays, but because it has interesting shops and bars on the waterfront. Even thought the season is wearing down, this weekend is probably the last big event in the town.
Another Lifetime to go 