Time to Warm the Shop

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Posted by Barbara Schilling on September 30, 2002

This summer we switched our paint shop up to our 2 stall garage, (after fully insulating garage), in order to move studio to former paint shop, and #1 daughter's bedroom to former studio. Well, now it is getting cold out, and the HEAT isn't hooked up yet. We had the gas run to the building, and Maris has the furnace sitting on the garage/paint shop floor ready for installation, but he is tied up with some apartment changeovers, and can't get to it for another day or so.

He built a super insulated "paint closet" within the garage/paint shop. There is a little space heater there so the paint won't freeze even if it drops down to below freezing. But we can't work in the cold, and OUR NEW SIGN which has been in production SINCE LAST OCTOBER is sitting there AGAIN waiting for the next steps. We are DETERMINED that the new sign will be in the ground before it freezes!!!!! I'll let you know woe it goes.

BTW - Sign is double face sandblast cedar, applied 1/4 inch thick trovicel letters with 23K gold surface, variegated inline and scroll work, and 23K edge on border. My friend Mark Lebo cut the letters from my Gerber plt file on his Gerber router to match the letters on the sign.

Mike Jackson - Chilly Here Too

Hi Barb,
We had snow in the mountains on Sunday and there are hints of light snow around town in the forcasts for the next couple of days. Yuk! The heaters have kicked in a few times in the past week or so, too.

It looks like Darla and I are in for an interesting two or three months. We finally decided to take down (move) our one car garage and rebuild another one car garage with a "bedroom"/office over it. Permits are at the city hall, refinancing in the works, and we are starting to try to box up everything we don't absolutely need for a couple of months. We need to get the foundation in before it really gets cold and miserable.

Should be interesting.
Mike Jackson

Barbara Schilling

Ok, Mike, - - - so what is a "bedroom/office" and WHO gets to sleep in it? Hope it is nothing like the proverbial 'dog house'.

We had GREAT help for our project. Hired my nephew most of the summer to destruct, construct, buff the floor in the former paint shop, move stuff, etc etc. Boy did he get an eyeful of life in a small business!

Raymond Chapman

Yep, same here. Yesterday it was all the way down to 95...no snow yet.

Kent Smith

Our furnaces have kicked on a few times in the last 2 weeks already. They are still set at 60 so we have had a couple cold snaps. Supposed to get a cold front and snow by Fri. so we are prepared I guess. Still haven't gotten all the outside projects done...again...but we always have an Idian Summer so we may get some done yet. Nothing we can't live through this year though so I wish you both luck with your projects.

Mike Jackson - Snowing This Morning

Raymond Chapman can enjoy knowing it is already snowing here this morning. I guess it's good in a way because I have a garage full of stuff that needs packing, and the urge to go fishing is slightly reduced. When we first moved here 16 years ago (the end of Sept), it snowed just about like it is right now. My parents had helped us drive the vehicles up and we had transported my Dad's big motorcycle in the back of the old Ford truck. After getting everything unloaded, it began to snow and my Mom was getting worried about getting permanently snowed in for the Winter. Heck, we didn't know. So, they loaded up the cycle and headed back to Oklahoma, riding through the tail end of the storm all the way--rain and snow. Within about two days, it had warmed back up, melted all the snow in the valleys, and we had a month and a half of nice Indian Summer. We are hoping for the same thing this year!

Mike Jackson

Sarah C.

Being Raymonds Arkie neighbor, its just getting comfortable here. Seventies and eighties in the daytime and 50 to 60s at night.

Raymond Chapman

Mike - it will probably be a few more days before it snows here. Still wet in the "seam", but hasn't frozen yet.

For those on the outside of the ongoing discussion of the weather between Texas and Wyoming, I might fill you in just a little.

A long time ago I went up in May to work with Mike (so that he could talk more on the phone with his admirers)and within the first few days that I was there it snowed about 12" - more snow than I had seen in all my life...combined. It was like being in a post card, only colder.

He is constantly reminding me of the difference between his "heaven on earth" and where I live in Texas. But just ask him what his house cost and what mine cost....and mine's paid for by the way.