Day: October 22, 2023

Always. Build. The. Jig. No matter how laborious it may feel to do so. No matter how good you think your free hand skills are. Build the gods be damned jig. Did the box joints without one and realized I’d done them not only too shallow, but with a rounded bottom, instead of squared off like they should have been. Idiot.

So today I built the jig. And finished this portion of the box joints properly. Except you can now see just how wonky the first pass was without the appropriately build & oriented jig. What a fool. To save fifteen minutes of pre-planning and building I’ve gone ahead and added several hours of hole filling with wedges to hide my crimes on the outermost frame. Rustic look is one thing, Frankenstein’s monster another.

Let us hope that a dark stain, and a dim room will save this project from being cut up into a different project entirely. I will say this. I think the six slats will make this a very sturdy single bed. I could always make two additional feet to prop the centre of the longest span from sagging over time. Might feel even more rigid with that addition. Glad I thought of it.

As I said before in previous posts, slowly making progress! I really won’t want to be out there too far into December. So I need to work quickly to get this bed sorted out. Then transport it to the cottage, and up into one of the bedrooms. Still a fair amount left to do before that can happen.

We needed to grab about 150, but I lost count after 45 or so, as the kids were too fast for me. But we got the van loaded to the hills, and I think as far as a donation goes, we’re on the money!

Still have to save enough room for the kids who picked them. Gotta be able to reach their seats, belts and not be a Twisted up pretzel in the process. No harm done! Return each child in the same or better condition.

Not exactly a lazy Sunday on my behalf. Funny how other people’s plans tend to become my problem once feet have to hit pavement. Everybody loves to plan, but it falls to me to execute it, without fail. Whether I had a stake in the outcome or not!

Atleast I slept in until 8:30am or so, and actually felt rested when I woke up. Might have been due to the 5 mg of Spinach branded chewy gummies I ingested after I pit my kids to bed. Not out of the question.