day one we expanded the standard sized door frame for the gate the client bought at the local iron works, then made the custom jamb, hung the gate, and redid the trim.
we’ve been working on the upper cabinets for seven days. they go wall-to-wall all the way around. the X patterns are all calculated to hold pyramids of wine bottles, even on the sides. requires precise measurements and angles, and cutting out the center notches where they cross needs two saws and finishing with a razor knife for part the little saw can’t reach. if the X span was short by > 1/16" (like 1½mm) it was rejected, and each X had to be marked and fitted to the individual cabinet to account for minute differences per cab.
Thinking back to my site managing days… A project where the client is willing to spend the kind of money quality requires and finding the contractors that will deliver was always something of a unicorn. Finding good contractors usually wasn’t the constricting factor in my experience, though.
yeah, the guy is a millionaire, obvs. this will be our most expensive cabinet job I’m sure. we’re lucky to have the clientele we have because otherwise it would all be framing and boring shit like that.
We’re hosting an eclipse weekend in Ohio. We have two sites at a park that we booked a year ago.
Our RV is the anchor with at least 6 tents. We’ll be there for 7 days, everyone else will be there 2 nights maybe more.
We’re serving at least 2 lunch or dinner meals and two breakfasts. My wife plans the meals I cook a lot of it.
When we host an eclipse event everyone gets gift bags with goodies. This is the stuff I made and my wife has spent 3 dollars on Temu to get bags of sun, moon, and spaces related stuff. Paper plates, napkins, table cloths, jewelry for the kids, etc…
Our daughter and husband made the buttons and stickers. She’s also responsible for eclipse cookies.
In the photo… Bags, stickers, buttons, fleece blankets, can coozies, coffee cups, knit hats, sweatshirts, and we’ll have 48 t-shirts.
We even made a few special shirts for us special people that saw the total eclipse in 2017.
you, sir, are amazing! that goes for all of your peeps involved!
what a truly incredible event you are hosting!
wear your safety glasses!
we here in the keys are promised a “partial”. again. such a narrow band of observation, crossing a barely one mile wide island in between the gulf and the ocean, well, maybe we need to go offshore a bit to see more.
just don’t ask us to go to the mainland.
It is. The binoculars (one lens covered) focus the sun’s image on the white paper screen. The picture was taken with a camera pointed at the screen. As I say, not exactly Greenwich Observatory.
@FloridaManJefe Received the postcard over the weekend, i was busy so i set it aside and forgot about it. But i remedied that when i got to work this afternoon, it shall find a place on my bookshelf of curios. Thanks for the kindness of sharing your art.
