Day 2821

 I woke up about 7:30 today and played games for a while.  It was much cooler than it was yesterday.  Then I got up, did the pet stuff, and had breakfast.  After that it was out to the shed to work on the next obstacle, a "log" ramp.

Before I started the ramp I set up the new dog holder.  I think it's going to do great.  I also made a couple of more pieces for the wave panel and glued them to the panel.  Then I made a couple of more pieces for the stump panel and glued them to the panel.  That completes both panels.  It also means that I've built everything that I originally intended to build.

I don't feel like stopping and I saw another obstacle on the web that I really like.  I decided to build one.  It will consist of a log ramp and a staircase made out of stumps.

The first step was gathering materials.  A fairly large branch fell in the house's back yard.  They haven't cleaned it up, so I cut some pieces off of it to use for the panel and ramp.  Then I built the base of the ramp out of popscicle sticks.  Finally I cut 16 4.75 inch pieces of branch for the ramp.  After that I couldn't do anything until the glue dried.  Besides, it was lunch time.

Lunch was a sandwich and some surfing.  About 2 we went to Safeway.  I needed milk and bananas.  We bought a couple of other things, but not much.  Then it was back home.  By then it was 87, cool by the standards of the last few days.

I surfed until dinner, frozen pizza.  Then it was a little more surfing until a little before 7.  By then it was pleasantly cool.  I went back to the shed.

I used the hack saw to cut notches in both ends of the 16 branch pieces.  Then I glued the two end pieces to the ramp base.  Again, that's all I can do until the glue dries.  I went back to the trailer and surfed the rest of the evening.