The concrete "Frieze" on the renovated (1976) Yankee Stadium is the inspiration for my want of whimsy
The temperature has plunged across the country lately and particularly here in Cleveland, where on average it's a good 7-10 degrees below the rest of the country. Brrr. Hello, feetie jammies. The nip in the air tells me that I have to get a move on with my projects because I do not want to be working on "The Frieze" in the dead of winter.
10 years ago, this little 10 inch TV ran us, including the funky cantilever mount, over $700. Kid ya not.
The big time sucker and obstacle to the start of my delightful whimsy of the Frieze in the garage has been the updating of our master bathroom. Grant did away with Lee with greater ease than it's taking me to finish the bathroom "update".
Nothing is ever as simple as it looks
Adding our old 10 inch, 10 year old LCD TV to Janet's side of the vanity area took "just" a Sunday afternoon. These simple looking projects are never that simple. I always budget double if not triple the time I think it will take to do a job. This job included splicing cable, running the line down behind the wall, tapping into an expanding an electrical box and finally mounting the TV in a location I knew Janet would be happy with. None of this was easy.
There's a special place in you know where for the person who invented wall paper
It's removing the wall paper boarder that has me reaching for my good buddy Jack. That little amount I have down already, resplendent in its having pulled down the first layer of paper on the sheet rock glory, took me the entire second half the Giants whooping of the Browns last weekend. That, soup to nuts, is probably two hours of neck straining work. This is going to take a while.
Except for paint and the Mrs. suggesting an expansion upwards, this is finally done
Furthermore, I had to finish, "The Stoop" out in the garage just west of the work bench. I finally finished this after weeks of delays and doing it piece meal. It came out ok. I ain't no finish carpenter. My plans for The Stoop include now painting it Yankee blue and white to go with the Frieze/work bench project. That paint job will also include tubes and tubes of sweet painters caulk to cover up my sins.
Gonna miss the Corvette
Meanwhile over at the work bench, expansion has begun. This expansion has to be done so I can start several moulding jobs that need to be done. I don't have the room on my present set up to this correctly. So, larger the work bench gets. I've removed the rake and shovel racks and moved them to window wall (above) here in the garage. Looks dicey having all that stuff hanging so close to der Vette but that stuff is lashed down very well. Besides, "Sweet 77" is going into storage in a couple of weeks (boooo!) so if something falls off the wall it will hit Janet's (company car) Camry. ROFLMAO.
This looks better already. Above is with the racks for rakes and what not that's not on the window wall to the left of the Vette in this pic. Funny, the older I get the more allergic I find myself to clutter.
When I built this originally I built it small because I didn't want something overpoweringly large. Well, so much for that. This weekend she doubles in size!
The expansion itself of "The Bench" will be simple enough. With all the rakes and shovels now on the window wall the right field lower grand stand expansion shouldn't take too look to build. I also plan on adding four outlets and peg boards. And a place for my storage box. And radio speakers. Shouldn't take but a couple of hours Sunday morning.
Like he's never said THAT before.
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