Getting Back to the Build

It's been... forever. Summer happens fast, and I've been busier than I ever have. Summer is an amazing time of the year in the Northeast US, as you suddenly find a plethora of outdoor activities to draw yourself into. I've been kayaking once or twice a week, mountain biking other days and otherwise grilling and chilling.

My networking and systems admin job is also busy for the summer, and all of this draws time away from building anything, but I carved some time away tonight. I've had two days of heavy work, and I just had to get away from LCD screens for a while.

I dusted off the tape measure and hand saw and cut insulation for the teardrop. It felt great.

In the first photo, I added the EPS to the angled portion of the headliner. The second photo shows the insulation along the sides of the fan frame and the section aft of that. Note that the left section is still bare to allow for the lighting that I'll install and work the insulation around that. The bare section directly to the right of the the right-most insulated region will host lighting fixtures as well.

The third photo is just a vanity shot in the shop. Kayko, the cat and my shop buddy passed on recently, and there was some level of acceptance by cleaning and organizing the shop a few weeks after. In respect, here's a photo of good 'ol Kayko:

The next step is to order my lighting and build the supports, fill the insulation around that and just build, build and build. But RIP Kayko, I miss her out here.

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Motivation

No, this isn't a photo from last week depicting the finished Teardrop II. It's an old photo, one that has been seen here before. I'm posting it in an effort to stir up some motivation and movement on the current project. This winter has been as cold of a winter as I've ever remembered. The garage is just some dark, smelly cold slab, cluttered with every afterthought of summer. As winter scuds by, you just seem to drop more remnants of of the prior three seasons wherever the hell they fall. Spending time in there to organize, let alone build, is brutal and lonely.

That's winter. I think we're coming out the end of the tunnel, however. It may be time to start organizing the junk or otherwise that's been hastily propped, dropped or jammed into corners and spare footage.

And this photo will help me remember that...

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