Pete and Kelli’s social distance day 48
3rd May Sunday
I was all set to assemble the arbor, everything was strapped on the top of the truck. The customer wasn’t around till after five. So we worked in the garage sanding a dresser top and a bit of gardening. The weather was good, although not hot, it was warm in the sun.
Kelli had decided that my hair needed a trim, she had watched a YouTube video, so now I was the experiment. Armed with scissors and a comb, with the video playing in the background, she took the first cut. It was the lesser of the two evils for me, it was much easier to go along with it that to defend my loopy shaggy style.
In no time there was clumps of hair all over the floor, I didn’t realise I had so much to spare. Clip, clip, clip it went on. Normally there is mindless chatter about holidays and sport, but not this time. I watched for the tell tell signs of horror on her face, but there were none, she had done a grand job.
We headed off to fit the arbor, we carried the sub-assemblies around to the site. I fitted the first of the end frames, and then I noticed that the main bridging section looked a bit short. I ran the tape measure across to raised bed and it was not the dimension I was given, it was ten and three-quarter inches short. I checked the paper the lady gave me, and sure enough I had made it exactly as instructed.
There was no way I could make it work as it was and my only option was to make a new bridge frame. We loaded up the tools and the incorrect woodwork and headed home. I had some timber at home I could use to make a new frame, but it was a bummer.
Another Lifetime to go 