Project, Christi’s Work Center

A few months back Christi had mentioned she would like to have a better place as her work station.  She has been working from just a fold down 6’ table.  It had no storage and had too much “give” for her stamping.  We talked about it and looked at some idea’s on Pinterest and looked in stores.  We ended up coming up with our own ideas and drew it out on paper.  The following pictures is the work in progress of building the desk and the finished product.

I made it mostly out of 3/4” Birch plywood and these first pictures are of me assembling the basic framing.  I used a method of fastening called “Pocket Screw Joints”.

I made it with a solid back and both sides have two adjustable shelves and the front inside also has 4 adjustable shelves along with two pull out drawers.  After everything was assembled it was time to start painting.

I used High Gloss black Oil base paint and put two coats on it.

Next I flipped it on it’s side and was ready to paint the back side.  Christi had seen an idea about Magnetic Paint on a blog sight and decided she would like me to try it.  So I painted two coats on the back side using the Magnetic Paint and then once it was dry I painted the top coat with what is called Chalk Board Paint.  It makes it so you can write on it with chalk or chalk markers and then erase it.

Last I painted the trim with High Gloss White paint.

          

I then made the top out of two sheets of 3/4” particle board and then covered it with Formica top to finish it off.

                Here is her finished project.  Notice how she has posted paperwork on the magnetic painted side and has filled up the shelves with all her goodies.  She just loves it and really enjoys working at her new work station.

She liked the magnetic and chalk board paint idea so well that I made another small display board for her out of and old window screen.  We installed it on our wall in her workroom.

 

Note from Christi:  “I am so spoiled, Thanks Hon for all you do for me!”

 

Dale

Special Days With Grandkids

Like last summer we want to spend special days with Tyler and Gracie.  A couple of weeks ago was our first chance to take them out and do something with them. We had planned to do something outside but the weather did not cooperate as it was raining so we went to our church and did some fun things with them. 

The first thing we had to do was eat some lunch. Gramma packed a special lunch which we ate in the church kitchen.

 

After lunch Grampa and Gracie went down to the Kingdom Kids classroom and Gracie had to have some play time with Grampa.

“Grampa, What flavor of ice cream would you like?”

After this we went over to the Grace Ministry center where we took our turn at playing air hockey.

              First up was Gramma against Grampa, Grampa won that game.

               

                 Then it was Tyler and Gracie’s turn.  Tyler was the winner!

               

             Next was Tyler against Grampa for the Grand Champion.

           

       AND THE GRAND CHAMPION IS………………………………..TYLER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                      

After this, Grandpa and Tyler worked on fine tuning Tyler’s baseball skills.

While Tyler and Grampa were working on baseball, Gracie practiced her drawing skills on a white board in the mezzanine.

         

So even on a rainy day, we can still have lots of fun just being together.

 

Dale & Christi

Art In The Park in Hudsonville

Each year we have what is called “Art In The Park”.  This year it was held by our city hall which also has our Veteran’s Park connected to it.  Christi and I stopped there today and had a look around.

            

It really is a nice small park and has nice walkways that have statues of all the Armed forces represented our country. We found the brick that all the brothers purchased in honor of our father as a gift to him on his 90th birthday.

          

          

I have a picture of Dad sitting on my desk and I just love it, and wanted to share it with everyone.  I don’t know how old Dad is in this picture but it is one of my favorite.  “I miss you Mom and Dad”, I long for heaven to see you again some day.  It’s know wonder us brothers turned out to be so handsome.  Just look who we are modeled after.

                        

Dale

Hudsonville High School Construction Update 3

Christi and I took our weekly walk and checked out the new construction going on.  The new bus barn is showing some good progress with the walls going up.

                       

Then we walked by the current South school which will be torn down to make room for the new Freshmen  Campus.  It was neat to see the walls on the building had been marked up with chalk.  The last day of school was this past Thursday and they must have let the kids write nice things on walls of the school.  It brought back lots of memories as this is the school that I went to many, many years ago.

             

             

             

We then walked over to where I and our son Jeff played tennis for many years.  The tennis courts were for many years located on the NE corner of the school property and located near the creek.

                 

The tennis courts are now all gone and all that is left is a hole in the ground as this will not be used as a retention pond.  This is a good idea as many times in the spring the creek would flood and cover the tennis courts.

               

The next update could very well have pictures of South school being torn down.

Dale