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Here’s what I brought the pink insulation boards home for: a new design wall. I actually got to turn the corner of the wall by piecing together the ends of all five boards. Since this will all be covered with felt or flannel, it’s all good! I’ll probably continue this around the next bits of walls.
What I used: 3/4″ pink insulation boards, screws to hold it to wall. The insulation board is light and easy to cut with a razor and a straight edge. The boards have a tongue and groove fitting which helps it all fit together. I put just enough screws along the edge and a few in the middle to keep it solid. Too many would be annoying while pinning things to it. I’ll cover the whole thing with felt or flannel probably by putting a bit of molding at the top and attaching the flannel to it. The electric drill with a screwdriver bit in it made it all pretty easy.
If you’re looking for a smaller or portable version of this, I can highly recommend the 1″ thick version of the same insulation board. Little stiffer but still light and easy to carry around. I have a few of them that are cut in half – 2 x 4 feet. These are perfect for laying out projects or pinning things to. I also use them occasionally as a temporary table surface since I can lay stuff out on them and just pick up and move the whole thing. Inexpensive and long-lasting, they seem to hold up really well.
well, atop Jiminy Peak:
I drove over to North Adams and surrounding parts to enjoy the day, pick up some fabric (you know I needed more!) and I found a Home Depot over there to get the makings for a new design wall. I got turned around (directionally) with a car full of insulation boards, so rather than trying to make a lot of turns in an unfamiliar part of whereever I was, I took the same route home. No complaints there – I never tire of seeing those “hills”.
When I saw the first of these wind turbines I thought it visually detracting. That first one still sticks out. The string of them along the ridge aren’t so bad somehow.
As I drove through Stephentown – there was a lot full of the blades for the incomplete ones. Holy cow. If these pictures make you wonder how big these things are – the individual blades – hub to tip are larger than a tractor trailer. Amazing. And the blades of the working ones look incredibly too small and narrow to be efficient but up closer – not so much.
Happiness Makes Up in Height for What It Lacks in Length
Oh, stormy stormy world,
The days you were not swirled
Around with mist and cloud,
Or wrapped as in a shroud,
And the sun’s brilliant ball
Was not in part or all
Obscured from mortal view—
Were days so very few
I can but wonder whence
I get the lasting sense
Of so much warmth and light.
If my mistrust is right
It may be altogether
From one day’s perfect weather,
When starting clear at dawn,
The day swept clearly on
To finish clear at eve.
I verily believe
My fair impression may
Be all from that one day
No shadow crossed but ours
As through its blazing flowers
We went from house to wood
For change of solitude.
~~ Robert Frost
Perhaps bolstered by my recent reading, I bit the bullet today and deleted the strangely now duplicated gmail account from the Mail program. How there came to be a duplicate of it under the Notes folder, I do not know. I do know that it was indeed constantly re-getting the mail for that “second” version. Or so it seemed to me. So I took a breath and reviewed all appropriate clichés and said “yes computer, please delete that account. Yes I know everything associated will be deleted from my computer but deep in my heart I am confident that everything I really need and, oh!, so much more are still safe and sound on Gmail’s voluminous email servers.” Recreated the account in seconds and voilà the problem is solved.
Now a nice once through of “downloading” the mail. It will go through the rules and filters and end up, pretty much right where it all was before.
Oh that the rest of life were so simple, eh?
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