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I decided to build my sister and her bf something to put their mattress on. I worked on it most of the day but I haven’t quite finished yet. I built it out of pine lumber from the lumberyard in Baldwin. 4×4 posts framed with 2x4s. I decided to get ambitious and recess the 2x4s into the 4x4s … this involved a lot of sawing so I could chisel out the slots. I think I’m going to regret that decision as I will likely have blisters tomorrow.
To make matters worse, I discovered that I screwed up. I had been going to use some metal tube bars from a different bed frame to support the mattress … just securing them to the 2×4 rails. I discovered that these tube bars are actually just the width of the mattress, and the 2x4s are far enough apart for the mattress to go between. Luckily I’ve come up with a solution. I found some steel bed rails and I’m going to hack the ends off, drill a bunch of holes in them and fasten them to the 2x4s on the inside so the tube bars can rest on that. I’ve already started on one of the rails, but drilling holes in steel is not exactly fast or easy. I decided that this is why drill presses were invented. Of course, a torch could do the same fairly quickly, but I don’t have a torch.
Anyway, that’s what has occupied my day. I got up early and brainstormed to figure out what was needed, spent a 1/2 hr finding the lumberyard (they’d moved locations) and got what was needed this morning. I worked on the bed for about 8 hrs. The wood frame is assembled … kinda looks like a pig pen (LOL … of course their room fits the bill right now, which is part of the reason I’m building a bed frame that the 6 dresser drawers from the dresser I took out of my computer room).
For dinner tonight I ate an entire Roma thin-crust pizza (which is an accomplishment for me). I was happy to discover that the June Bugs Bunny marathon is running on Cartoon Network, so I watched that for a while. They even had some that I hadn’t seen before! This surprised me ‘cuz I’ve been watching Bugs Bunny for a long time.
TTFN!