First off, I'm very excited to let you know that I'll be performing at the 14th Annual FisherPoets Gathering in Astoria Oregon
February 25th and 26th!! I'm on both Friday and Saturday night around 7:30 P.M. Pacific Mountain Times. My Friday night's performance will be broad casted on 91.9 FM KMUN @ www. coastradio.org. To give you an idea about this celebration, I've taken the following is taken from their website
. I'll have more on this next week but in the mean time, check it out! The schedule and all that is on their website.
The FisherPoets Gathering (FPG) is expecting a record number of more than 80 fishing and maritime industry people from several states and British Columbia to bring their original poems, stories and songs to Astoria. Along with several local musicians who also have strong fishing-industry ties, they will present their readings and music at this 14th annual weekend program, February 25 to 27.
"Fisher Poetry" comes from experiences living and working in the industry, and ranges in writing style from fast-moving rhyming couplets to crafted free verse or literary prose, and includes poems, songs, short stories, personal memoirs and essays, along with art.
KMUN-FM community radio broadcasts both evenings live 6 to 10 p.m. from Astoria Event Center at 91.9-FM & www.coastradio.org. Enjoy!
Now, back to our regularly scheduled blog
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| Hanging panels |
No EGG-zadgeration, putting the Humpty Dumpty back together again is no easy task. That is one term of endearment that I call the Egg, my recently purchased 12' 1955ish camper that I am renovating. Did I just say I? I meant to say Vince. He seems to be currently doing most of the work, for now. Mostly because he has more patience than I do and, as a result, better carpentry skills. If left to my own devices, I would be done by now, but it probably wouldn't look too good. Turns out, remodeling is a big task, a bigger task than I ever imagined possible. But, I'm committed now and just too stubborn to turn back. I also did a bit more research on discovering the make and year of the Egg. I found this website
http://www.tincantourists.com/ featuring old, excuse me, vintage camping trailers. I emailed Ron, the founder of this organization and he speculates that the Egg is from the mid 50's but said that most manufacturers just copied each other back then and couldn't guess on the make. Thanks for the info Ron! If you're into vintage campers, here is another cool site:
http://www.ynotcamperrestoration.com/Index.html
So, its looking more like the Egg is closer to 50 than 30 years old! Wow. It'll be eligible for social security soon. But, I got to tell you, the wooden ribs on the inside of the camper are beautiful! No knots anywhere and for the most part, with the exception of a few portions of the ribs, they are still all good and solid. The plywood floor is in a little better shape and again, no knots at all, a sign of older wood.
This week's progress was hanging some of the panels up. We thought we would just fly through it and be on to installing the bunk by now, but we are still hanging panels. That's OK though, we are taking out time and it shows. I think it looks pretty good. One of the reason its slow going, the main reason, is that the Egg is not symmetrical. Guess after 50 some odd years of shimmying down the road, I'd be a little off kilter, too. We've had to accommodate for that. A panel might be 1/8-1/4 inch off from one end to another. Or ribs will not be aligned and things like that. Anyway, we are getting there. We got the two ends covered and the ceiling up. See our progress below from measuring out the panels in the garage to hanging them.
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Cutting panels to fit
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One down, many more to go!
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| Measure twice, cut once |
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| The finished ceiling |
Currently, Vince is making forms for the walls. First, he made them out of poster board to copy the curve of the back wall. Then he transfered the poster board and copied it onto a left over piece of insulation. After that is fitted correctly, then he will copy that onto the paneling, cut and install. Easy peasy.
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| Making forms for side panels |
Tune in next week to see if we are pulling our hair out by then, I mean to see our progress. And, I'll see you in Astoria!
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