Queue for Fall 2012, v.9

How to wrap DOG when there are some significant items in the queue?

I don’t want to get distracted by other projects, especially other people’s projects. Diverting energy risks the completion of DOG. There are a few objectives to handle before the snow flies, indeed before the weather turns permanently. This may be another September like 2010, warm right to the end, but there’s no knowing.

House projects include finishing the backroom (4 days – clean adhesive off blocks, mud, paint, trim windows and temporary tub base), lofting the backroom (3 days – new project, provides easy interface to guests/collaborators and functional storage) and building the greenhouse, (4 days – new project that fixes the air leaks on the back wall and provides a space to grow food).

first draft greenhouse plans

Finishing the backroom enables a chain reaction of renovation to sweep the house. The backroom needs to be complete before the 3 big book shelves and piano can be moved there and the main room floors refinished. Fresh floors would not only bring the inside up to 90% of awesome,  it’s an imperative because the floor between the main room and the bath is crushing down and requires structural attention. To do the floors also means unloading the lofts and jacking the main supports up on rods, so the sander can get under.

Meanwhile back on the farm, I’ve promised to unload the barn and build a lumber loft. At least a solid couple days of work. This would be followed by a tool inventory and weatherizing the shack doors, which would make the shack viable for the winter to support whatever else, like back plate production for DOG, eg the bathroom chemistry, spent shells on the wharf, etc. Perhaps even the bedroom set for Joe and Christina.

Oops! There’s a day or so / week helping James with interviews and organization.

• That’s probably about all I can realistically handle ALONG with moving DOG forward as my full time. •

Projects that are important but secondary are the moving of Rosie next to the house to make another bedroom, (2 days) building a sail loft (1 day) and test launching the raft (4 days). Perhaps I could paint the raft’s steel since I started to work on that and the paint supplies will be a 1/2 year older if I wait until spring.

Along with all this is the beach video, which will require some serious organization. I’d like to get 50 – 100 people involved in the shot. That might be ambitious but if I made the commitment I think it’s doable. There’s a location release and talent releases to make it legal. There’s a huge coordination effort to get folks there at the right time. Perhaps a huge sleepover followed by the shoot in the morning. That might be the best way to pull it off, rather than asking folks to drive schlep out to the location in the early AM. The window is closing, just a week or two left.