Progress and Sawdust

MATT PINSONNEAULT

It was a good weekend full of sawdust at the Lab. On Saturday Paul and I built a big lumber rack and moved a bunch of 2x4's and sheets of plywood and OSB onto it. We have a lot more in storage that needs to be moved in.

Today I got the fireplace for the parlor roughed out. It is ready for our crack art department to dress it up and make it look more like an antique Victorian fireplace and less like a thing made from OSB and 2x4's. The plan is to clad the inside with faux soot-stained brick and do some kind of gothic-style facing. Once that's all done I'll make a fancy wooden mantle to match the overall art design of the surround.

While I was doing that, Edwin was doing a prototype for this year's vortex tunnel. Looks promising.

Here's Edwin and my wife Susan, trapped in the vortex:

MATT PINSONNEAULT