The Bathtub Back!

Well, it’s been a quiet few days with the trailer. After my csr breakdown, I ended up spending much of the weekend at a reenactment, though I did fit in time to do one more window. Generally, it was nice to take a break, to catch up with friends (who think I am [...]

Gorgeous Day to Work…and Not Work!

Today the weather was absolutely perfect. Warm, but not too warm. Spent the whole day working outside and not working outside! Couldn’t help pulling on the old WBC (that’s right, so old there wasn’t another C and an I!) beret. It’s the vintage one I bought off ebay after seeing the really cool old Airstreamer [...]

Vanity, crap and possession

I have believed for a while that our bathtub has something seriously wrong from a psychic sense. It has caused me no end of misery in restoring it. I have spent countless hours cramped in uncomfortable positions trying to make its ugly cracked dingy surface into something–well–that anyone would want to bath in. Along the [...]

Weekend work report

A year ago, I first tried restoring my bathtub. Unfortunately the surface was so far cracked, the restoring compound ended up seeping up out of the cracks. Saturday, I started correcting those cracks.
Saturday I woke up achey, but I downed a couple of naproxen, strapped on my respirator and safety glasses and headed to work. [...]