Up and At Them

My brother requested a kick in the butt today.  So I stopped at the store and bought stuff to make a high protein breakfast to get us started.  We ate and then moved to the garage.  First order of business, and the only thing we accomplished today, was to clean out the CNC machine.  It was filled with aluminum shavings.  We had to make a trip to the store for some supplies.  He added locks onto the side doors to keep them on.  As the machine has aged things shifted and the doors could fall off from the vibrations of the machines.  There was a garbage can and a half of shavings.  They will go to Metro Materials for recycling.  Once the machine was clean we seemed to lose steam.
We had some pizza bread for dinner.  Then he had another store trip to make and I needed to get back to BG for my craft class.
I beat Marina to the class.  That meant I got first pick for colors of thread and nails.  I went with copper nails, pale lavender and dark purple thread.  Marina went with silver nails, off white and a teal thread.  The instructions were pretty simple.  Cut out the letters and tape them on the board where we want them.  Then pound nails in partway where all the dots were.  Pull the paper off and start the threading.  Sounds really easy.  It is definitely harder than it sounds at least for a first time person.  I would have guessed that the nailing and hitting my finger and thumb to be the hardest part.  Well it didn't feel good to hit my thumb and finger, but I'm lucky I wasn't hitting hard.  When I was done hammering...my hand that held the hammer hurt more than the smacked hand. Funny that.
We had a nice start on the threading when our time was up.  So we gathered up our supplies and will finish at home.  It was fun.  It was nice spending time with Marina and working on a project.  Hers looked so much better than mine.  Some people are just like that though....have a natural gift.  Maybe we will do something like this again.