The fifth picture with the heat lamp in view makes it look pretty black.

I can't imagine what you're going through emotionally in wanting to get this finished. Every time I see updates for this thread I get excited. It's gotta be ten-fold for you.

 

I'm a Civil War vet...

 

I like that post.

 

haha yeah i've been out and about..this week is supposed to be awesome 82 on thursday!

 

I am, sort of. Grunt officer type and did my 5 year active duty tour post Vietnam. Was in the reserve for the Gulf and despite my best effort could not get activated. I did twenty total years (active and reserve) but for a variety of life-got-in-the-way reasons didn't get enough sat years to draw a pension. Never heard a shot fired in anger, which used to be a disappointment when I was younger. Now that I'm older an (a bit) wiser I am just as happy to have missed that.

 

haha...thanks GW. I said to myself as I walked away from the shop this afternoon...this whole project is an exercise in extreme patience.

 

Damn, I had you pegged as one of Teddy R's Rough Riders.

 

Hey, now you can just keep that kinda talk to yourself buster. No fair rubbing it in.

 

I second that...I was always more concerned about my own guys behind me than I was of what was in front of me. I'd seen those idiots shoot before...

 

The closest I came to getting killed while on active duty was on the grenade range when the Company Gunny, a Vietman vet who'd probably tossed hundreds in combat, fumbled a live one and dropped it right on top of the birm of our foxhole. As luck would have it, it rolled away from us and not back into our hole. Oooops. <KABLAM>