On Sunday we went up to Mom and Bill’s place and had a nice dinner out on the porch with family to celebrate my birthday last week. Strap on you food porn goggles!!!
My sister has a sensitivity to vegetables in the nightshade family, so mom usually avoids those when she is there, however, sis didn’t make it this time. Mom had gone a little nutty buying a big selection of different tomato varieties from the
Bozrah Farmer’s Market and she was happy to include them throughout the meal.
For starters there was a veggie platter with orange cherry tomatoes, broccoli stems, jicama with a little chili powder sprinkled on, some heirloom tomatoes (sort of shaped like small Roma’s, but ripe when green and had a little tiger stripe pattern), and two bowls of marinated grape tomatoes (blanched to remove skins, red wine vinegar, diced red onion, and basil). With the exception of the white ramekins, these ‘pots’ (pottery bowls) were spun and glazed by my wife, Yvette.
For the main course there was a side of roasted broccoli and garlic.
Marinated tomatoes, this time with balsamic vinegar and mint leaves.
Quinoa and black bean salad (you’ve seen this one before!).
Pork tenderloin (one had already been removed from the grill when I took this pic).
Fresh Bread and Butter corn on the cob, locally grown. Get your corn as fresh as you can (Bill drives to the farm stand right before dinner) and only boil it for 3 min’s, no longer. Sweet, crispy and delicious with a little mop in butter and a pinch of salt.
Let’s pull this all together for a group photo op!
Delicious all around, nice fresh flavors and a good meal pairing. Thanks again mom!
For dessert, Aunt Sandra made hand churned frozen yogurt with a nectarine sauce. The sweetness of the nectarines played nicely with the slight tartness of the yogurt. Very nice and simple.
Aunt Sandra is heavy into paper crafts, including rubber stamps and gift card making. The ho-de-po gift card came in this neat little box with hand stamped and colored tool banner.
Bill’s Daughter Jessica and her friend Rick gave me a big bag of medjool dates (yum), and mom presented this work in progress; a camper quilt wall hanging. She lifted the profile from one of my build drawings; included pumpkins, both orange and a white lumina in flight; and two little kitty silhouettes in the window, representing Maggie and Rocky.
And the back.
Monday was a tough day at work and I didn’t feel like working further.
Back at the build tonight, I removed the wooden washers from along the top of the front cabinet face frame and ran the screws there back in without the washers. Some of the washers were starting to pull thru from repeated use, so I culled thru them and made more to replace the ones that had given up. I also pulled the temporary dry wall screws along the edges of the ceiling. I had used these in between the blocking locations directly into the foam to give a little bit extra hold while the adhesive set.
Next Karl and I contemplated how to proceed with the front end of the ceiling. Should we just wet it down, glue it up, and pull it into place all in one go (I was leaning this way at first); or should we do a “wet/dry” run without glue and re-train it before trying to glue it? We decided to retrain it first on the premise that if it wanted to take its sweet time reforming, then it would be better not to have the glue kicking off part way. We gave it a little push by hand (dry/dry) just to kind of judge, and stopped when we heard a little pop. Not that unusual, been there and done that.
Decided to wet the outside down and do a “dry” run (no glue), which went fairly quickly, only heard one disturbingly loud ‘pop’ noise. Wished that we had gone ahead and used the glue. Oh well.
All was not roses. If I offered you a little buckle, you might think that I was cooking a fruit crumble dessert in a DO, like a brown Betty, or crisp, but no.
When I got inside with a light to check for any gaps, I spotted a crease reflected in the inner surface on the curb side. Checking the outside it was plain that some fibers had broken and there is an area about 6 to 8 inches long that has buckled out from the true profile. If you look closely at the outside picture above you can see an area that has light glare above and almost a dark line above a decidedly non-glary area (middle of the curbside section of the panel between the 3rd and 4th rows of wooden washers).
In this look from the inside, it doesn’t really show up in the picture too well, but if you look at the reflection of the temporary end mask on the curved panel you can see how it changes in a sharp line about halfway up. It is much more obvious in person. Ouch.
It doesn’t look that bad in the pics, and I suppose it isn’t that bad in person, but you certainly don’t have to look that hard to see it (at least in good light). Frankly, I’m frustrated because I worked so hard to make it come out a certain way, and this makes me feel like it hasn’t.
Nothing really can be done on the inside except maybe store the spare blanket on that side. On the outside, if it doesn’t burst open overnight, or while I am lifting it up and gluing it back down again, I will reinforce the whole front radius with epoxy and glass weave fabric.
There is a good bump there, so I may also have to scallop out a little of the foam that will go over that area so that it doesn’t telegraph up thru to the final profile.
Hind sight, maybe GPW’s idea of adding chip board may have helped, but maybe not being able to soak it down with water would have created more issues.
Maybe if I had gone slower and soaked it longer it would have been okay, maybe not.
If I knew… what I know now… when I was younger I may have used two layers of thinner ply.
I'm sure I'll get used to it and the 'warty-ness' will fade into the background eventually, so I will stop whining. Let’s leave tonight on a high note. I’m happy with this end.
by KCStudly » Fri Aug 22, 2014 9:34 pm 
These big glue-ups are real nail biters. Nice job. 
Oh no wait... I got that wrong... I love it 
I'll drink to that! 
