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Another busy week at home! Front windows and new fans...

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I am fortunate that I have worked from home for the last several years as a professional longarm quilter, so during this time of "staying at home," my clients and I have been conducting our drop offs and pick ups in a no-contact, scheduled visit. This week I had several beautiful quilts to finish, so Dennis decided to work on those front window frames. When we opted to remove the fiberglass end caps and install aluminum segmented end caps, that made the old plastic window frames, yellowed and brittle from age, virtually impossible to reuse. We tossed around trimming them to fit, and using fiberglass to finish them nicely, but then we'd probably just paint them silver to blend in. So, Dennis decided to give it a try at making the frames from aluminum, too. Dennis has built several aluminum airplanes, and has been working with aluminum regularly for over twenty years. Even so, he characterized his methodology as the "brute force" method of window frame bui...

May Day 2020 Update on Sew Shiny

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Creepy mood lighting as we installed the center section of aluminum. That meant we had to drop our Harbor Freight lights to the floor until we got the cut outs for the vents/air conditioner and could hang them back up there. It's been a month since our last blog and video update, and we have been working on the interior walls this month. I am going to interrupt this post for this important public announcement: I am going to say "we" a lot in this blog. Please assume that is the royal we, and that Dennis did 99% of the actual work I mention in any description that follows. I am excellent when told "hold that right there" or "de-burr the holes on this piece" or even following behind him inserting Cleco clamps as he drills. Sometimes he let me do a little math to make me feel useful. Water Inlet installed next to the Outdoor Shower box that Dennis built Dennis finished all the wiring, installed the water inlet, the smart plug, and finished...