Post-Thanksgiving GiG

It's Friday, and there are a million things to do today. The most important, obviously, is to get my GiG (Garage-in-Garage) ready for winter, because the weather is going to start turning cold very, very soon.

As you may recall, the doors to the GiG were started a few days ago, but there hasn't been an opportunity (until today) to get the door handles on them. And they really need door handles. Currently, they don't close very easily, which is part of the design. Tighter doors make for tighter seals against the cold, you know. But that means that the doors can't be shut by simply closing one side and then the other. The doors have to be brought together carefully and set to just the right angle and then pulled sharply together so that they mesh. But that's very difficult to accomplish when there is no door handles.

So, first order of business is to make the door handles. Starting with the main entry doors which go from the two-bay garage (where the cars are parked) to the GiG.


Next, the doors which lead out of the GiG into the "shed" which was created by the extra space between the GiG and the 3rd bay garage door. This will allow access from the GiG to the shed where all the snow removal (and grass removal) equipment is kept, as well as the recycling and trash bins which must go out every week. The intent of putting doors here is to seal off the GiG from the exterior cold which creeps in when we're shoveling snow or putting out the garbage every week.


Now that the GiG work is done, it's time to work on the tea cart for the school play ("Beauty and the Beast").

The Tea Cart is supposed to look like a real tea cart, only it has a person inside who will be playing the role of Chip, the tea cup. The actor has his/her head made up to look like a tea cup, and the actor's body is hidden inside the tea cart.


I can't wait to see how (if) this works!