I do believe some of the leggy labourers were there. If not then he has a very fine harem on that Palm Pilot. Unfortunately I could not describe The Nick in very flattering terms due to the fact that
1. He had been working all day to prep for this soiree
2. The previous night was also a bender for a friends mom’s 60th birthday bash
3. He was busy at work playing the host with the most – bartender, greeter, tour guide, pizzaola
maker…
As we all have done, & I am in this basket too, it is a fine line between making sure things run smoothly and being able to enjoy the fruits of your labour. For our BBQ I always end the night thinking – gee I didn’t really get to talk to anyone I was being pulled in so many directions. This was Nick. Most folks figured that at best you could get 3 minutes of talk time as he added the ingredients to your personal pizza.
Ok so here is a rough impression of Nick He kinda looks like the Trooper seen in this painting with longer and lighter hair.
A strong and engaging handshake, no limp fish here. Like the other builders on this site – when someone says come on over if you are in the neighbourhood I strongly recommend that you do it.
Thanks for the reminder of the penny covering. At the moment the dome is covered in pearlite/vermiculite cement. The top of the dome was slightly warm to the touch couldn’t heat up water for tea on it though. We added 3 copper pennies for his collection. Now that the oven is being used it is taking a bit longer for him to finalize it. The overhanging vent looks good and fits the decor, however I think the vent/flue is too small as the draft is about ½ and ½. Even with that the venting does not get in the way of the pie handler. The landing is not quite done, Nick has a granite corner stone that needs to be placed. It is a bit big and will look sweet when it is cemented in. As for the cobble stone, it will not be placed as a keystone but should still show up prominently near the corner stone. Nick was very appreciative of the international offering from Jim.
No I do not have any “creative writing skills” In fact one year one of my high school writing professors made us keep daily journals. I was already doing that and was a bit irked that some authoritative figure would be looking at something so personal. In reality I put stuff in it like what movie I went to and what infraction against my person that my sisters inflicted upon me. So I did a Leonardo DaVinci on it. I wrote, in cursive, backwards. the only way to read it was to train your eyes or put it up in a mirror. He flunked me for the course because he couldn’t read it. I retorted to him that this was a creative writing class & I was being creative – shove it. Another student wrote theirs in Latin – they too flunked. And this was a Catholic School. Yes sometimes I get a bug and write. Every 2 years I put out A Christmas Letter in June. Some of them are really novellas as they run upwards of 6 pages at Arial , 8 pitch. yikes.