This is written on Thursday, Dec 9th, in the evening; today we finished up the workshop container. We started out on Tuesday putting up the rest of the wallboard and Wednesday with taping and covering the screws.
Thursday Morning we set up for painting and spray painted the interior.
We finished up this afternoon, putting the covers on the outlets and switches, installing the ceiling lights. We are ready for final inspection for both the container & roof installation and electrical inspection. The inspection is scheduled for tomorrow, Friday (weather permitting). The forecast is for snow from 8pm this evening through 11am tomorrow.
Tomorrow morning we’ll reinstall the workbench, put up the pegboard sheets and put the shelves back in on the inboard side.
In other news, I was in Johnny J’s Diner on Monday (beef stew in bread bowl day) and noticed the following picture in the men’s room.
The first thing I noticed is that these are either right hand drives, or the negative was reversed when making the print. The next thing I noticed was that at least the woman’s pink car was a 1968 VW. The medium sized tail-lights were from 1966-1968; in 1969 they went to the larger round tail lights. The 1968 version had 4 sections of rear hood vents.
The whole reason for this post is that my first new car was a 1968 VW bug purchased in Hawaii with my first re-enlistment bonus. She was named Sweet Alice Blue and was the baby blue color of the car on the right. She was named after Alice of “Alice’s Restaurant”, which came out in 1967, by Arlo Guthrie. I drove Sweet Alice Blue cross county to Norfolk and then back across to Seattle when I was picked up for NESEP and attended University of Washington (UW).
It was the car I owned when I met Lindsay, and drove her to So Cal to meet the folks (another great story). I have a photo somewhere of Sis & others decorating the VW during our wedding reception. We kept Sweet Alice Blue until after Lindsay graduated and started working for John Fluke, waiting for me to graduate. The summer of 1976 we stopped a at VW dealer to get a replacement passenger side window crank. As we walked in there was a new 4 door VW Rabbit (now a Golf) with a rear seat you could actually sit in. Shortly after, Sweet Alice Blue was no more.
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You had a bug in High School, didn’t you? I seem to remember it getting painted as a Notre Dame Football Helmet??
I think that was David’s car, I remember swapping a body as Dave wrecked it coming back from the Beach when he ditched school. I went with dad to tow it back and helped swapping the body out.