{"id":145,"date":"2006-10-08T09:11:02","date_gmt":"2006-10-08T18:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/erin\/?p=145"},"modified":"2006-10-08T09:11:02","modified_gmt":"2006-10-08T18:11:02","slug":"watch-out-its-a-long-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/erin\/2006\/10\/08\/watch-out-its-a-long-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch out, it&#039;s a long one!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, Bill and I returned from our travels, and the two of us should be here together in Unalakleet for a while now. That&#8217;ll be something new!<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re already busy on a project that will entertain us through the winter. Many of you probably read Bill&#8217;s post about building a home climbing\/bouldering wall last year. Well, it&#8217;s finally becoming a reality. We decided to go ahead and ship the materials up last Spring &#8211; knowing full well that this will not be something we can take with us when we move. Time has been moving quickly, and we&#8217;ve both been busy, so the actual construction of the wall has been on hold&#8230; until yesterday!<\/p>\n<p>The wall is going to be a 3 sided &#8220;cube&#8221;. The sides and back will all be eight feet wide and approximately 7 feet tall. The back wall is going to slant out, a bit, to create more of a challenge. It will connect to the roof which will also have holds. I don&#8217;t plan to ever make it to the roof, as then I would be parallel to the floor, 7 feet up. We&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n<p>So, I&#8217;ll try to keep some pictures up of the processess. We could probably finish the darn thing today, but we&#8217;re waiting on another order of T-nuts. (We just had no idea how much of everything you need for something like this.)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"232\" height=\"309\" alt=\"Bill stacking 2 x 4\" src=\"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/erin\/files\/2006\/10\/IMG_5975.jpg\" \/> First we had to create a &#8220;table&#8221; to put the boards on, as we don&#8217;t really have the right stuff for building up here&#8230; so we improvise.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"228\" height=\"304\" alt=\"Erin Drilling Holes\" src=\"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/erin\/files\/2006\/10\/IMG_5978.jpg\" \/> The next step was to drill about 50 holes in each of 8 pieces of ply wood.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"226\" height=\"169\" alt=\"IMG_5981.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/erin\/files\/2006\/10\/IMG_5981.jpg\" \/> Bill&#8217;s kind of a natural at this stuff. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"140\" height=\"186\" alt=\"IMG_5979.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/erin\/files\/2006\/10\/IMG_5979.jpg\" \/> me -not so much!<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the room we&#8217;re building in is our arctic entry&#8230; a very common room in houses up North. It&#8217;s not heated, but if we keep the second door (that opens to the rest of our house) open, it stays pretty toasty in there.<\/p>\n<p>In other news&#8230; Bill&#8217;s updated his <a title=\"Bill's Blog\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/erin\/wp-admin\/bbryson.com\/bill\">blog<\/a> with pictures from his trip to Diomede. (It&#8217;s the village that&#8217;s right by Russia.) He got stranded out there for a couple of extra days but definitely enjoyed his adventure. Go check it out. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>As I probably mentioned, I finished up my work travel for the fall this week. That means my life will start to take on some sense of routine (I hope!). To begin, I will be subbing for my friend Carrie&#8217;s math classes this Monday &#8211; Wednesday. I&#8217;m looking forward to spending some time at the school here this year.<\/p>\n<p>Stacie and I have kept busy with the card making and lots of craft planning. We&#8217;ve managed to get a couple of good walks in, a visit to a health fair, and plenty of coffee. Since she&#8217;s working on her master&#8217;s, she sometimes has to go and observe a classroom here at the Unalakleet school. On those days, I get to watch their little boy, James, for a half-hour or so. What fun!<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of little ones, I can finally post a couple of pictures of the beautiful baby Jack Stepec!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"296\" height=\"222\" alt=\"jack.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/erin\/files\/2006\/10\/jack.jpg\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"296\" height=\"222\" alt=\"stepec family.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/erin\/files\/2006\/10\/stepec%20family.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>April and Trish got to go down to Iowa last week to meet Jack and visit with his mom and dad. I&#8217;m always envious of those times&#8230; especially when they call me to get directions for a lunch outing at Panera. Hmmph! I honestly am glad, however, that they all got to get together. Sounds like a great time.<\/p>\n<p>The update from back home sounds good. We had snow on Friday&#8230; it was 75 outside in Cook on Saturday. Someone might as well get some weather to enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>Well, that&#8217;s enough for now, I imagine. If you made it this far&#8230; thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, Bill and I returned from our travels, and the two of us should be here together in Unalakleet for a while now. That&#8217;ll be something new! 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