Today we finished our bed. Well, mostly. We started the process yesterday and came close to completing things this afternoon. Did we mention that the frame and legs were made from junk wood we’ve collected over the past little while? It’s true. The side of the road and the wood piles on condo construction sites are both great sources of building materials. The slats we bought though, which is a drag, especially since they’re looking like the weakest looking link in the structural chain. Damn you, cheap purchased wood!
We broke a drill bit in half trying to drill pilot holes. Apparently our secondhand bits are also second rate. Sometimes I think of gravity as my friend, but I’m beginning to notice that I only ever seem to feel that camaraderie with it when I’m tired and want to lie down. On days like today, when I want to stand straight up and use whirring objects that spin metal into wood, gravity is a pain in the ass. If it weren’t for gravity, I wouldn’t have been forced to lie on my back and hold up a bed frame with my feet while drilling. Also, if it weren’t for gravity, I’m fairly certain someone would have invented hover boards by now, just like in the movie, Back to the Future 2. But, I digress.
While we were making the bed in the bus, Muddy ate a bunch of our compost and spread the rest of it around the kitchen floor. I gave him detention for the rest of the week. He’s pissed because we’d planned to film a Turner and Hooch remake together.
That’s about all. Today’s video update had been posted to the right of your screen. Emergency exits are located at the front and rear of the cabin.
Bethany’s edit:
We used these plans to build the bed:
The Cheap, Easy, Low-waste platform bed by aeray at http://www.instructables.com/id/Cheap-easy-low-waste-platform-bed/
Great tutorial, made infinitely harder by the fact that we had to adapt the instructions to the confined space of the inside of the bus. If you ever need to build a bed, this is the one to go with. He says it takes him an hour to build this bed. It took us two days. I’m sure, for you, it would fall somewhere in between.
