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Jane and Triva undertake a massive project: removing and replacing a 16 foot square (4.8m x 4.8m) wooden deck.
I am attempting to construct a 1950s "B" movie style miniature rocketship out of plastic soda bottles and fast food take-out cups.
Admittedly, a heapin' helpin' of optimistic imagination is required to visualize the final result at this stage.
"Stage" - get it? Like, in rocket stages?
I'm hoping the quality of the jokes are not indicative of the quality of the final product. A vain hope, no doubt.
Historically, my success rate with projects like this is low. The "rough outline" goes together pretty well, but the finishing details usually fail to bring the appearance to anything other than that of plastic bottles haphazardly glued together.
22 January 2022
Shower Pan Drain Installation
Janie: "If we get this part sealed up properly, we shouldn't have any more leaks."
Triv: "Which means we shouldn't have any more wet, rotten floors, right?"
Janie: "Exactly! And we will never, ever have to do this stupid project again!"
Triv: "You said this project. Like, this particular project."
Janie: "Well... if you insist on being all precise and stuff... yeah."
Triv: "... sigh ..."
Cracking Open the VOCs
Janie insists that oil-based stain is the best option for a project like this.
Janie and Triv (Smart Dolls Harmony and Symphony) continue working on a wooden deck replacement project.
4 October - A Doll A Day 2024
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My new kitchen, installed June 2013
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Diwali decorating ideas ~ 2
small kumkum / trinket boxes used as votive holders and displayed on a glass top.
Glass top glued ( decoupaged ) with handmade wrapping paper from India.
Beginning steps to putting a roof on a cabin project.
Three of us have built this entire thing starting from bare dirt. Mostly two of us.
Smart Dolls Trivia and Janie begin shoring up the framing during the deck replacement project.
25 September - A Doll A Day 2024
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Oil-based penetrating wood stain has a tendency to "weep" or "sweat" or "seep" for a day or three after being applied, necessitating periodic wiping with a disposable rag to avoid sticky spots that fail to properly dry.
12 October - A Doll A Day 2024
It's a good thing Janie likes doing stuff like this. Of course, it's easier for her than it is for me. She can access the space under the sink much more easily than can I.
And yes, both Janie and I know that "flexible" sink fittings are a bad idea. That's what was there, so that's what we're putting in for now. We'll be back in the fall to install a decent drain pipe system.
10 March - A Doll A Day 2023
Triv and Janie (Smart Dolls Symphony and Harmony) unload lumber for the deck repair project on which they are working
29 September - A Doll A Day 2024
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Trivia (Smart Doll Symphony) operates the miter saw, trimming blocks to length for the new deck frame.
26 September - A Doll A Day 2024
Triv and Janie evaluate lumber for the deck project.
T: This looks like a lot of work!
J: This looks like opportunity and potential!
Three hours later, the clear blue sky was completely overcast and rain was pelting down.
21 September - A Doll A Day 2024
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I am attempting to construct a 1950s "B" movie style miniature rocketship out of plastic soda bottles and fast food take-out cups.
Admittedly, a heapin' helpin' of optimistic imagination is required to visualize the final result at this stage.
"Stage" - get it? Like, in rocket stages?
I'm hoping the quality of the jokes are not indicative of the quality of the final product. A vain hope, no doubt.
Historically, my success rate with projects like this is low. The "rough outline" goes together pretty well, but the finishing details usually fail to bring the appearance to anything other than that of plastic bottles haphazardly glued together.
Here's a website on which to lose an hour or several: www.spaceagemuseum.com/exhibits#/the-rocket/
Makes me wish I knew how to weld and work with metal and do "real man" types of projects - like build roadside attraction rocket ships.
Everybody who remembers the TV space shows "pre-Star Trek" is either too old to care or dead now. Most of the web articles about full-size TV rockets date between 2007 and 2015, but there's some amazing stuff out there:
www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/supermarket-spa...
I was watching some old episodes of the "American Pickers" TV series earlier. That show usually leaves me feeling sad. Sad for all the mistakes I made in life. The guy, Mike, on the show got his start restoring old bicycles and hitting up farm and auction sales for bike parts. Now he's rich from his antiques show. I used to have an antiques show on TV. Seriously - "Focus on Collectibles." It was on local cable access TV in Eugene, Oregon, back when cable access was a thing. It was fun, some friends and I did it for laughs. I think we broadcast five or six episodes. Had I been clever, or business oriented, or ambitious... oh well, water under the bridge.
What really depresses me about "American Pickers" is the places the guys visit - where old guys... it's usually guys... accumulated cool old stuff by the barn full. Back in the '50s and '60s it must have been possible to load up by the truck load for pennies. And to have barns and acreage on which to accumulate old cars and motorcycles and even airplanes... and rockets. And mechanical wind-up toys and advertising signs and neon signs and movie posters and... and now they're dead and their kids, who are old themselves, are trying to sell all the crap dad and grand-dad accumulated so they can turn the family farm over to developers who want to build condos.
My grandparents had 40 acres, with a barn that my grandpa filled up with junk - mostly old appliances and half-rotted lumber. After my grandfather passed away, my grandma held on to the property for several years, but finally had to let it go. My brother tells me the area is not even recognizable anymore - all the farms out there have been build up with houses.
Anyway, I'm glueing together soda bottles and plastic cups to try to make a rocketship. A project doomed to failure, as noted in a previous message.
22 January 2022
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I am attempting to construct a 1950s "B" movie style miniature rocketship out of plastic soda bottles and fast food take-out cups.
Admittedly, a heapin' helpin' of optimistic imagination is required to visualize the final result at this stage.
"Stage" - get it? Like, in rocket stages?
I'm hoping the quality of the jokes are not indicative of the quality of the final product. A vain hope, no doubt.
Historically, my success rate with projects like this is low. The "rough outline" goes together pretty well, but the finishing details usually fail to bring the appearance to anything other than that of plastic bottles haphazardly glued together.
Here's a website on which to lose an hour or several: www.spaceagemuseum.com/exhibits#/the-rocket/
Makes me wish I knew how to weld and work with metal and do "real man" types of projects - like build roadside attraction rocket ships.
Everybody who remembers the TV space shows "pre-Star Trek" is either too old to care or dead now. Most of the web articles about full-size TV rockets date between 2007 and 2015, but there's some amazing stuff out there:
www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/supermarket-spa...
I was watching some old episodes of the "American Pickers" TV series earlier. That show usually leaves me feeling sad. Sad for all the mistakes I made in life. The guy, Mike, on the show got his start restoring old bicycles and hitting up farm and auction sales for bike parts. Now he's rich from his antiques show. I used to have an antiques show on TV. Seriously - "Focus on Collectibles." It was on local cable access TV in Eugene, Oregon, back when cable access was a thing. It was fun, some friends and I did it for laughs. I think we broadcast five or six episodes. Had I been clever, or business oriented, or ambitious... oh well, water under the bridge.
What really depresses me about "American Pickers" is the places the guys visit - where old guys... it's usually guys... accumulated cool old stuff by the barn full. Back in the '50s and '60s it must have been possible to load up by the truck load for pennies. And to have barns and acreage on which to accumulate old cars and motorcycles and even airplanes... and rockets. And mechanical wind-up toys and advertising signs and neon signs and movie posters and... and now they're dead and their kids, who are old themselves, are trying to sell all the crap dad and grand-dad accumulated so they can turn the family farm over to developers who want to build condos.
My grandparents had 40 acres, with a barn that my grandpa filled up with junk - mostly old appliances and half-rotted lumber. After my grandfather passed away, my grandma held on to the property for several years, but finally had to let it go. My brother tells me the area is not even recognizable anymore - all the farms out there have been build up with houses.
Anyway, I'm glueing together soda bottles and plastic cups to try to make a rocketship. A project doomed to failure, as noted in a previous message.
22 January 2022
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Canon EOS 7D + EF24-70mm f/2.8L USM @ 64 mm - 1/160 sec at f/22, ISO 400
Manual mode @ 0 EV E.C - Pattern metering - no flash
Subject Distance: 730 mm
Choosing a big box lets you get some good angles on larger objects.
Strobist info:
2x 580EX II at 1/8th on each side of box
1x Vivitar 2800D aimed down on top of the box at full power (non manual flash)
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Kitchen Table, My Apartment
Sammamish, Washington, USA
Taken on 03.26.2011, uploaded on 03.26.2011.
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My new kitchen, installed June 2013
PERMISSION TO USE: Please check the licence for this photo on Flickr. If the photo is marked with the Creative Commons licence, you are welcome to use this photo free of charge for any purpose including commercial. I am not concerned with how attribution is provided - a link to my flickr page or my name is fine. If used in a context where attribution is impractical, that's fine too. I enjoy seeing where my photos have been used so please send me links, screenshots or photos where possible. If the photo is not marked with the Creative Commons licence, only my friends and family are permitted to use it.