back on my bullsh*t

[ apparently my crosspost-from-wordpress thing stopped crossposting so this is catchup from a couple weeks ago ]



First off this is how Loiosh spent his birthday. I gave thought to doing the same but I'm glad I didn't, cos I finally got outside to work on Tyrava again for the first time since Estrella.

I am very glad that my sawzall still works even though I left it out in the rain in January. While it was still plugged in. I AM LUCKY, I KNOW.



I am HELLA out of practice & also my shoulder has been iffy lately so I only took apart half a pallet, but it was enough.

I'm also out of practice with remembering to take enough pictures! I took this one partway through, but I had to take boards off all the way up to the window to put in the denim insulation.



I am REALLY happy with the denim. I wanted the styrofoam for the floor because it's waterproof, & it made sense to use the rest up on the front wall, but the denim insulates just about as well & is made from old jeans. I'll use recycled stuff over new-made stuff any day, & the part where I don't shed small bits of styrofoam all over the back yard every time I cut is nice too.

After probably working longer than was really a good idea (I'm REALLY out of practice & out of shape) I got the front wall done!



Well it's. Not DONE done.



But I'm leaving the arches for LATER.

I had fun piecing wood together. I used different widths, lengths, thicknesses. It's anything but smooth, but it looks cool.



The very last piece. I AM A REBEL.



I'd love to find a way to fill in some of the tiny gaps with, like, resin? With sparkly nail polish mixed in it? or something? Like they do with cutting boards & tables & stuff. This kind of thing. But the only way I can think of to do that involves either turning Tyrava so she's face-down or sticking her in a kiln, so. I'll think of something.

But it was a good day's work, & I'm glad to be back at it.

inventing a window, part I of lots

I didn't have ANYTHING like time to do stuff with the windows before Estrella, so I left the the housewrap over them & stuck shutters on the outside & left it at that. But now that the front wall is done, it's window time! & I have no idea what I'm doing

... okay, not entirely true. I've been thinking about this for the past year, pretty much. I have some ideas. But I knew I needed a window frame.

Step the first, trim the housewrap.



Including the corners ...



... so I can do this with it.



& then have at with the tyvek tape.



This is all being done for the purpose of keeping the water on the outside, at least as much as possible.

Once all that was done I started cutting & sanding boards for the frame itself. I don't have much in the way of unused pallet wood right now, so I kinda hadda fake it.



But, you know, it works.

Bit of a gap on the outside there, though. Look, I just don't do precision cuts. Or precision anything, really.



That's why the gods made caulk.



Next up, trim & window screen!