Morning all,

A warm one here today headed to 85 degrees.  I'll be heading to the grocery store soon, then need to mow.  Neighbor has a graduation party this afternoon, so the docket looks pretty full for today.

Jeff

Morning all.

We'll break 80 degrees here later.  I need to take the car in for it's 30K mile service later today.  Will probably walk at least back to there after it's done to get my excercise in for the day.  My wife has an appointment with the back doctor today, I may need to take her as she's had some vertigo issues the last couple of days.  Her back is much better after getting her knees done, something I believe both the back doctor and I told her that the knees could be the cause of the back issues.   Working on the stairway for the FSM kit as well.  

Jeff

The next step is to build a large rickety stairway on the end over the loading dock.  I couldn't decide if I would just use stained wood or paint this the trim color.  Matching the metal stairs to the wood is tricky for me.  Here I sprayed this small one tan and used black oil wash and it's OK, but not quite perfect.  I think I'll paint the stairs and framing.  Also the top boards are done.  Normally, I'd add nail holes to this, but it's already so dark and fragile I think putting the holes in might break it and then overstaining make it even darker, so it will stay like this.  

Jeff

Great looking boat.  

Jeff

Morning all.

I'm up and ready to go as I have a online meeting this morning.  Actually I have two "required" meetings at the same time.  Most of these are quite useless, we'll see how this one goes.  I'm off on DB for another week, but I'll have to watch these sometime, so we'll do one now and watch a recording of the other one later.  And, no, I don't get paid for this.  

Not doing much on the kit, as I've finally gotten MS Flight Simulator 2024 to  work, so I'm doing some piloting.  My landings still need some work.  

Sunny and lower 70s today, maybe another walk when it warms up.

Jeff

Nice tower.  Great job on the roof.  

Jeff

Morning all,

Cloudy and headed to 70 here today.  Walked 2.75 miles yesterday and not really sore today, will try to go for 3 miles later.  Not much work on the kit, hope to get back to it today.

Jeff

Morning all,

Raining here.  A high of 72 later.  Nothing planned except a walk later.  Dave, thanks for the Dave Barry link, I've always liked his columns.  

Jeff

Morning all.

Headed to 73 here.  Will take a walk later though my legs are still a bit sore.  I have twelve more days off until work and need to get into better shape to handle the twelve hour days.  Will continue work on the FSM kit and may need to mow as well.

Jeff

The top boards aren't added so you can place dirt under them after attaching the wooden dock to the base.  So I spread some Elmer's glue in the area, put down the docks and then added some dirt to the area.  Then some alcohol and matte medium to keep it in place. Next up are gluing on the stone pieces to the one dock  and the top boards to the wooden dock.  

Jeff

I then noted the tops of two of the stone castings didn't get much black from the oil wash, so the tops had to be redone.  Then I dry brushed the pieces.  

Jeff

Placing the two docks together, the concrete one still needed a tiny bit sanded off to make them match.  

Jeff

I then built the rest of it, except the top boards.  I found out later I should have alternated the way the "inner" diagonal pieces were as it then the end pieces weren't quite right.  I'll cover it with a shrub.  

Jeff

Thanks for the kind words, guys.  

Started building the wood loading dock.  The instructions have you make the base, glue it to the base and then add the joists.  It would be easier for me to add the joists on the template so they're even.  So I started that way.


Jeff

Morning all.

Cloudy and headed to 70 degrees today.  I've done back to back days of 2 miles walking and am kinda sore today, so I'll skip strolling on this Sunday.  Slow progress on the FSM kit, but will do some work on that today.

Jeff