Mud and Mudders

what would be a road out to the bungalito's new resting place....now just a muddy mess.

Do you ever have one of those happy instances where everything just falls in your lap? I have been feeling that way lately.....this building of a studio still just floors me. I can't even tell you how much this means to me. I have said it before, but this is the coolest thing anyone has ever done for me. An amazing feeling.

SO to add to all that.

I was at work thursday, pouring beer at the Brewery. There are a couple of young guys who come in all the time, and we have dubbed one of them "Pigpen" due to his muddy boots and general dust cloud that follows him around, and all the damn mud we sweep up at the end of the night under where he sat, mostly in the spring because of the construction work he does. So I assume he and his buddies know a little about drywall (bad of me to judge dirty men like that?) I strike up a conversation basically like "hey, I am thinking about tackling some taping and texturing of newly hung drywall, got any tips for me?"

"Yup. Let us do it."

uhhhh, what?

Apparently if you dont know anything about mudding a room, and were planning on struggling through it by yourself, you should go to a local brewery, find a couple young guys who are bored, thirsty for beer, and tell them you plan on doing it yourself. They will laugh at you, show up at your house the next morning earlier than promised (and after a night out downtown....no sleeping in for these guys) ready to mud a bungalito!

I am eternally grateful for these guys, and am so happy to report that there are good people still out there! (Ladies, if you are ever in doubt about the extinction of good men in this world, let me assure you they are still out there, and I swear most of them live in Montana. They live in carhartts and apparently congregate at a local brewery.)

Tarn looking 6 foot 11..

Tex loves his new porch.

These three guys, TJ, Evan (Pigpen), and Tarn worked all day......

Can't say enough how grateful I am for these three guys. They are awesome and I couldn't thank them enough.

Dear good guys,

Thank You. I owe you some beer.

and they did a great job too....

Now for the fun......PAINT.

Insulation is icky

Insulating with the pink stuff.......

ick.

Tex looking quite dapper in his over-the-shoulder look......

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The Bunglalito is coming along nicely....yesterday Jesse and his dad jacked up the building so that it sat level on it's new little home in the woods. It is muddy and mucky and gross out there right now, we are in the middle of a nasty winter meltdown, with a little rain on top of it all. more ick.

mud hole

and here is my new home.....for now......kind of..........

The idea is to stay in the camper, and the bungalito, mostly just the porch for now......leases are dumb and so is moving. I am sick of moving. But this little building is really worth it. I am some day very soon going to be able to waste away WHOLE DAYS tinkering and building and MAKING to my heart's content. So yes....the camper is tolerable. Eye on the prize, Erin. Eye on the prize.

The man behind it all..........Hopefully we don't kill eachother.

Its only 6 weeks.....

But the end goal is this.....

ALAAAAAASKA!!!!

Jesse and I were invited on a 30 day kayaking trip starting in Valdez, AK and ending in Seward, AK.....but since I am in school till mid may, we are going to piggy back on the last 2 weeks of the trip......heck yeah!!! And the coolest part is we fly into Anchorage, drive to Whittier, paddle to Seward, drive to Haines, and fly out of Juneau. Holy crap that's a lot of AK in 3 weeks!

I get to go see a great ol' friend in Juneau too...

(LIZ can't WAIT to see you and your yurt, oh and i guess the fiancee!)

So yeah, jacked to go see Alaska. I have never been up there, and have never been sea kayaking. so all a bunch of firsts.....VERY EXCITED.

Tomorrow is Sheetrock day, should be interesting....I will definitely take more pics soon.