Bedtime!

Today it's Bedtime!

Dave says he's got to build the bed so he can then get the wiring in,

I just nod and pull out the debit card, it's off to Home Depot/RV Supply Store for us..

Bed area BEFORE the bed..LOL

 Meanwhile, I can work on sanding...this area had a WICKED black spill of some sort. Yuck.
 Opps..sanded a bit TOO hard. Oh well, there are always pillows, right?

Bed almost done

I said " Dave, gimme your BEST " I BUILD THE &%$#" SMILE"...LOL

BiRtHdAy!

 

Yup...it's my birthday...

(I'm 3IiSH...it's my blog and I can lie if I wanna...HA) 

Ken says "What would you like to do today? It's YOUR Day!"

What do I want?

To work on the TRAILER, of course! LOL

(isn't that what every girl wants?)

 

The front has bad wood...so it had to come out.

 

Get the measurements right guys!

What a mess!!!

More mess....

More measuring...

 

This piece of birch has a big grain...I was worried, but it ended up being below the bench dinette seats. *Whew*

This weed grew up INSIDE the edge... You think this trailer sat for awhile? LOL

adding some support

 Of course we all have to sign it!

Did I mention it was 98 degrees, with about 60% HUMIDITY? UGH!

 This trailer is going to be more solid than the day it left the factory!

 Insulation installed. This stuff is so itchy and gross.

Finally, we can put the skin back on..and call it a day!

 

the dogs enjoy the pool...while we mix up some Margarita's and seek the air conditioning. Done for the day!

Dave tells me he's been working on the bed so even though I have to work again today, I ran over to see what he's done so far.

 He's brought the bed out to the cabinets. We'll have lots of sleeping room now!

 

He patched the hole in the floor near the wheel well, and fixed the wood around the storage door

 The kitchen cabinets are all shored up and solid..

 And unfortunately, when he peeled the front panel back the wood just disintegrated..so that will need shoring up too. Might as well replace the water damaged interior panel, even though the dinette covers most of it. So, it's off to the lumber store again!

More done, but not by me...

I've had to work my regular job pretty much all this week..

(don't they know I'm BUSY ? lol )

but Dave continues to get stuff handled.

He pounded out the wheel well, and fiberglassed it..

He also got the side wall all screwed in securely and was able to take down the interior roof support beams we had holding it..

 I was half expecting the whole trailer to make at least a noise (or worse) when he took them down, but she is SOLID!

 The seams are now water-tight, nailed and are ready for the "j" rail, after paint/polishing.

 Next he will finish the wheel well, install that bit of flooring missing (see hole above) and start to build the bed platform back in. We are extending it to the cabinets for some extra sleeping room.

You can see I have some shellac work to do. The seams we will cover with birch finish strips. I am hoping it won't be too hard to get close to the vintage color the wood has. 

She needs her new vintage style rear lights too..on backorder from Vintage Trailer Supply, maybe in 2 weeks? Can't wait to get them on, she looks a little naked without them.

She needs wings too...but those can wait. Why is the fun stuff always LAST? :0)

TON'S of work done!

We dedicated Sat & Sun to working on the trailer. Hard to believe we've only had it for a week and done this much to it already! The guys worked like CrAzY!

They fixed the wheel well that was destroyed during a blow out someone had, welded on a support beam that was missing (Dave said the whole wall was basically held together by the cabinets) and so much more.

Check out the new back end! No more wobbles and no more sag.

I'll bet this trailer is stronger than it was from the factory! 

A new birch interior skin and more support in the rear will make it nice and stable.

My guys can fix ANYTHING!

Blown tire did a LOT of damage..
needs more pounding and fiberglass

Welding a new support bar on

Hey what's under here?

Wobbly wood..great..

wow...the wall is bowed out. Not good.

Shoring up the ceiling while we get the wall straight

This is going to be beautiful eventually

New support beams being added.


The guys worked long and hard...I owe them a beer and my gratitude. I sure am lucky that I have wonderful people in
my life!

MORE polishing...

Grrrrr

This is HARD work.
But tomorrow...no more Ms.Nice Girl.
It's time for the heavy equipment.

 

Polishing..

This is more work than it looks

So shiny we can see Phoebe!

Spent some of yesterday polishing, since Dave is doing woodwork in the back. Not much in the way of excitement or progress..but we are chipping away at it.

Been thinking about a name. There are so many clever and cute names out there..the Sister's on the Fly website has pages of members, and I spent too much time looking at all the funny names. Some I liked;

Hillbilly Hilton

Taj Wehaul

SlapHappy

The best part of this trailer project will be decorating it!

I was looking at fabric for curtains on Ebay, and ran across this vintage piece of barkcloth.

I thought it was perfect since we found the trailer in Santa Barbara. Too bad there wasn't enough of it to do anything with. I am gonna keep hunting for this pattern!
I love it!