We spent all three days of our holiday working in the Garage Of Terror. I got a lot done but didn’t make much progress overall. We finished putting together the center column of the carousel only to find out two sad, sad truths. First is that plywood warps for no reason/any reason. Secondly I learned that I am a terrible engineer. (fun fact: my brother, father, and grandfather were all engineers and I learned nothing from them.) In the end it looked terrible and weighed about 150 lbs. Sigh. So I took it all apart, piece by piece and rebuilt it. It took all weekend. Now it is square and true, and weighs about 50lbs. I didn’t get to do anything fun. I was a grumpy Grinch by Monday.
Why so Grumpy? While I was unscrewing and cutting and rebuilding the carousel column, everyone else got started on their fun props. Fun props like these:
I was green with jealousy! I was also mad because my jaw mold i made and remade three times tore. Now it’s useless. I spent at least $100 in materials and three weeks or more building it right.
I’m glad I only have a 4 day work week! I can’t really rest until the major construction on the carousel is done. Then comes the fun part of building the monsters and their riders, the decorating and painting of the carousel.