There’s only one thing better than when Henry works in the shop, and that’s when he is joined by his sister Juniper. It was the perfect spring day, and both kids were eager to do some real work out at the shop. One of this weekend’s projects was to clean out the concrete mixing area. That involves some hard labour with a pickaxe or our little backhoe to break up the concrete floor area. The kids insisted it would be much faster if we did it with the pickaxes. I like to work smarter and not harder, so I stuck to the backhoe, but the kids thoroughly enjoyed doing things the hard way. Together, the job was accomplished in record time!
Hard working Henry
The kids are staying the weekend, which makes for very busy times. Henry, of course, wanted to do stuff in the shop, not really caring what we did, as long as it included as many power tools as possible. One of the many tasks we accomplished was packing the entries for the Sign Invitational. We stuffed copious amounts of bubble wrap (always fun!) around the pieces before we fastened on the lids. Henry did the honours of screwing the lids tightly in place. We then loaded the giant boxes into the pickup, and Henry insisted on doing a more-than-excellent job of strapping them into the pickup bed with three straps tightened extra tight. As required, he slapped the tightened straps and declared that this load wouldn’t go anywhere! We went to town without incident and then unloaded the boxes and wheeled them into the UPS store to fill out the paperwork. We celebrated our success with lunch at Tim Hortons. Then it was back to the shop to continue our adventure…
Last full tiles now laid
After many weeks of measuring, cutting, fitting and installing ceramic tiles in the Copper Crown Suite of the Hazelnut Inn, Matt announced this afternoon that he had finally laid the last full-sized tile in the secret room of the castle. He has about a dozen cut tiles left to wrap things up totally. This is a massive and impressive accomplishment! Since the edges of the ‘stone’ room were edged with a row of small cut tiles, which carefully follow the undulations of the wall and most of the tiles were laid on the diagonal (or not), there were more cuts than whole tiles throughout the project. Once the last few tiles are laid, there will be a final dep clean before the crew does the dark grout. It is going to look fabulous! Stay tuned…
