OK, maybe the title of this post sends the reader off on the
wrong trail. I'm a very boring person, so the end of the sentence is ...build bookends.
Yep, Tuesday afternoon I grabbed my tools, bought paint, sandpaper, wood glue and got some lumber cut then headed to a motel in
Manchester, TN to get to work:
The sanded them over a bag to catch the dust, then organized pieces of wood.
TV:
Sports
cent
er &
BBC News
Then I got to painting them
bright colors, again on more plastic bags. I love painting things. I only
splattered paint once and it was on the black mini-fridge. Luckily it wiped clean. Phew.
TV:
Chopped
Drying for a few hours.
No TV:
Sleep
The next morning I
woke up early on my own, two hours before my alarm because building bookends is fun. I glued the tower parts to each other after touching up the paint a bit. I also
fixed a hole I had accidentally made in one of the blocks, because I'm just that
coordinated.
TV:
Mike & Mike in the Morning (ESPN)
Finally I attached the towers to the green slab backing.
TV:
Little League World Series!
Then I packed each end into a black bag for safe keeping and drove to Nashville to watch
Anna-Lisa knock the dissertating socks off of her committee.
This, my friend, is why you will always be cooler than me.
ReplyDeleteI love the bookends, and I LOVE the narrative. :-)
How did I not see this post till now? Warms my heart, you building bookends in a motel with an ESPN soundtrack.
ReplyDeleteAnd the result was AWESOMENESS! The result of your project, not my defense. Best. Bookends. EVER.
ReplyDeleteI dunno, to have your committee say, "we were just in here singing your praises," is a pretty cool way to top off your excellent defense. So maybe the defense tied with the surprisingly heavy bookends.
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