This weekend was quite busy. After a 5 mile run (32 laps) at the
Eden Prairie High School Activity Center on Saturday, we showered and headed
down the Mankato to help DJ build a closet…from scratch.
We met DJ at Menard’s to buy supplies. We really didn’t spend much
time planning it out…which in hindsight probably wasn’t the greatest idea. We
got some wood, power tools and other supplies and crammed them into our
vehicles and went to the house. Thankfully, our windshield didn’t break this
time (a time before, Eric and Bradley were transporting PCV pipe and they put
it thorough our windshield). The power tools needed to be charged so we went
back the Mankato for some dinner at Ethan’s favorite Chinese place, Yu’s. It
was good, the egg rolls were excellent!
After dinner we started building. We made two boxes out 4 inch
boards. We set them up in the room and after further analysis we decided to
make a box out of the big boards too. Now if I would have been thinking
earlier, we should have just made one box out 24” boards…but I wasn’t
thinking straight. Anyways, we got almost the entire closet done on Sunday
before we had to go home. It was a lot of work, but I think it looks pretty
good. I felt like I was channeling my father. Now granted he should have come
to be sooner while we were doing our initial analysis but hey he must have been
sleeping. LOL!
Here are some pictures of the process and the finished product.
Not bad for a first time.
We stopped at Danielle and Bradley’s to drop off flower for the
wedding. I discovered I made 6 extra boutonnieres then were needed. Apparently
math isn’t my strong suit. LOL! Danielle is so excited for the wedding. We
talked through what was left on her to-do list. We did some planning and
finally we had to go. I had a concert last night so we needed to get home and
shower.
The concert was ok, not our best…especially the last song, Abram’s
Pursuit. It makes me sad because we sounded so good on Thursday and we were a
complete muddle at the concert. It makes me mad because I love that song. Eric
recorded the concert but the video recorder wasn’t fully charged and it died 2
minutes into the last song. I’m not sure if Eric got the part that was a
complete F*&C UP or not. As I told my friend, Jenny, “Eric only got the
first 2 minutes of the song. I’m not sure if he got the meltdown…LOL!” The
reason it that is funny is because our concert title was “Winter Meltdown.” I
will find out tonight when I process the video and put it online. A nice thing we did for the concert is put a
single rose on Mary’s chair. If you didn’t read my blog earlier this month, Mary
is our 1st chair flute player. She had been with the band since the 80s was an
amazing player. She died unexpectedly a couple weeks ago. It was a way for us
to honor her.
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