So a lot has happened in the past weeks, I went and got married. I have found that I only post when something exciting has happened. So that is it. I shall post some pictures once I get them from my Photographer. I also have something else awesome that a co-worker of mine has informed me of. A Self-sustaining Ecosystem. Take a big pickles jar, 2 plants, 2 small fish, couple snails. and BAM! seal it up and keep it near a window. You never have to open it, never have to feed the fish, nothing! check it out I found this site.
SELFSUSTAINING ECOSYSTEM
I am very excited to start this. It also wont cost very much to do! The best part? After you create it, you never have to do anything with it again!
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Friday, August 14, 2009
Look at her little foot...
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
One more try...
Okay, I think the video problem was that the file size was 5times the limit... so i have re-movied it to 25Mb so it should work.
Alrighty, Chantal went ahead and made an appointment to get yet another 3D/4D Ultrasound done this Friday at 1 o'clock. The image in the baby mama posting is at 21weeks so this one will be at 30. It's going to be really neat to see how much two and a half months can changing a growing fetus. (heh heh 'fetus') Where as an adult you can't even tell! And the best part of it all is that we get 20% off since we had it done during this pregnency!WOOT!
Stupendous.
Alrighty, Chantal went ahead and made an appointment to get yet another 3D/4D Ultrasound done this Friday at 1 o'clock. The image in the baby mama posting is at 21weeks so this one will be at 30. It's going to be really neat to see how much two and a half months can changing a growing fetus. (heh heh 'fetus') Where as an adult you can't even tell! And the best part of it all is that we get 20% off since we had it done during this pregnency!WOOT!
Stupendous.
Monday, August 10, 2009
Heres Da Vid!
So here's the video ladies and gents!
Wait I am having some difficulty, I'm gunna try again tomorrow when I have some more time.
I will admit it was kinda fun just doing a video. So I will post the odd picture but keep up with the videos since its more rocking. Hey, if anyone random views this and has a question, email me at nmglider@gmail.com.
UPDATE
I have added a picture of Chantal to the Baby and Baby Mama post. Its the 29 weeks photo!
Awesome.
Wait I am having some difficulty, I'm gunna try again tomorrow when I have some more time.
I will admit it was kinda fun just doing a video. So I will post the odd picture but keep up with the videos since its more rocking. Hey, if anyone random views this and has a question, email me at nmglider@gmail.com.
I have added a picture of Chantal to the Baby and Baby Mama post. Its the 29 weeks photo!
Awesome.
TEARDROP PROGRESS!
So after lots of work, it is finally starting to look like a Teardrop trailer.
This first photo is some of the frames I am building called the BULKHEADS. They start to give the trailer some riggidity (sp?) and are the base for the insulation at the rear of the trailer.
This is one of the sides I had cut out, its starting to look like something real here! But I found it was very hard to jigsaw/cut the edges without a...
SAWHORSE! which was very easy to make! Plus: I used some old 2x4's from the reno we are doing onthe basement. Plus: Canadian Tire its 25$ for one, and all it took was 3 2x4's @ $1.50 a piece plus 16 screws=a lot less then the one at Canadian Tire!
Of course I run out of wood to continue with my frames.. So I must go buy more at HomeDepot, then I get home, and I have run out of screws, ARGH! back to HomeDepot. Oh and Homedepot doesn't sell Wood Screws in bulk so I have to buy them in packs of 100 (which seems like a lot but you go through them quickly!) So I just went all out and bought 200 8X2" wood screws (8 being thread count and 2 being length) 200 8x1 1/2" and 200 8x1"
I am all framed out, though it feels good to look at them all and say, 'Them some good frames'. I used BUTT joints to frame them,
And the door is cut! 'HELLO!'
Now the sides are up, and it really is starting to look like something! IMA SO EXCITED! :) :) :) :)! Those things in the middle are RIGHT ANGLE JIGS to square the sides to the floor, without them it would be all messed up and nothing would fit in snuggly, and the trailer would look more like a rhombus.(first time I've used that word since grade 10 math class).
This here is Hardboard, 1/8" thick. Much like panelling. I use this for the inside SKIN of the trailer. Also for the shelves, and such.
Here you can see that I have added the panelling to one of the BULKFRAMES this is the rear view
and here is the front view!
and this is me strangling my Dad for tryin to cut corners!
Here we are, I have installed the rest of the BulkFrames and am now putting the insulation in BEFORE I put up the face frames (which like it sounds is the front of the cabinet that faces you when you look at it!)
I just had a brilliant idea, Im gunna make a video tour of the trailer quick times so you can really have the full effect! I'll brb!
Awesome.
This first photo is some of the frames I am building called the BULKHEADS. They start to give the trailer some riggidity (sp?) and are the base for the insulation at the rear of the trailer.
This is one of the sides I had cut out, its starting to look like something real here! But I found it was very hard to jigsaw/cut the edges without a...
SAWHORSE! which was very easy to make! Plus: I used some old 2x4's from the reno we are doing onthe basement. Plus: Canadian Tire its 25$ for one, and all it took was 3 2x4's @ $1.50 a piece plus 16 screws=a lot less then the one at Canadian Tire!
Of course I run out of wood to continue with my frames.. So I must go buy more at HomeDepot, then I get home, and I have run out of screws, ARGH! back to HomeDepot. Oh and Homedepot doesn't sell Wood Screws in bulk so I have to buy them in packs of 100 (which seems like a lot but you go through them quickly!) So I just went all out and bought 200 8X2" wood screws (8 being thread count and 2 being length) 200 8x1 1/2" and 200 8x1"
I am all framed out, though it feels good to look at them all and say, 'Them some good frames'. I used BUTT joints to frame them,
And the door is cut! 'HELLO!'
Now the sides are up, and it really is starting to look like something! IMA SO EXCITED! :) :) :) :)! Those things in the middle are RIGHT ANGLE JIGS to square the sides to the floor, without them it would be all messed up and nothing would fit in snuggly, and the trailer would look more like a rhombus.(first time I've used that word since grade 10 math class).
This here is Hardboard, 1/8" thick. Much like panelling. I use this for the inside SKIN of the trailer. Also for the shelves, and such.
Here you can see that I have added the panelling to one of the BULKFRAMES this is the rear view
and here is the front view!
and this is me strangling my Dad for tryin to cut corners!
Here we are, I have installed the rest of the BulkFrames and am now putting the insulation in BEFORE I put up the face frames (which like it sounds is the front of the cabinet that faces you when you look at it!)
I just had a brilliant idea, Im gunna make a video tour of the trailer quick times so you can really have the full effect! I'll brb!
Awesome.
Sunday, August 9, 2009
Long time coming!
Its kinda outta focus, but its tricky to take pictures of lightning. Also an update on the lady, she is looking more preggers everyday. Heres one of the belly taken just a week ago.
I have also done lots more on the teardrop. I have a handfull of more pictures so I will have to take some time and organize it all so I can post them.
HaHaHa Chantal really is hating on this picture, so I am going to leave it up. My dad said she looks like Kate from John & Kate plus 8. Muah hahahaha I think she looks might peerrtyy.
Awesome.
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Baby and Baby Mama
I know I posted the Teardrop project first, but I wanted this at the top! And I know Chantal is going to kill me for posting these, oh well!
This is 5 weeks along, basically when we found out!
This is 15 weeks along, slowly but surely!
This is 25 weeks along, look at that belly grow!
Now we have a 21 weeks along picture but Chantal HATES it so for the sake of my own life I wont be posting it. lol I do have the ultrasound of 11 weeks 3 days so here it is!
This is at 29 Weeks!
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So in this 11 weeks 3 days Claire is only 4 centemeters long! Whoa!
And this is one of those high-tech 3D/4D ultrasounds, though my understanding of the 4th demention is that it is impossible for us to humanly understand a 4th dementional being, since 'we' are living in the reality of the 3rd demention. But thats a whole other blog post!
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Here Claire is covering her face! Can you see everything? You can see her arm, mouth, one eye and a bit of nose!
As Chantal's belly grows and we get updates you'll get updated posts. I know I have an new regualr ultrasound too, so I am going to look for it and get it up here!
Now we have a 21 weeks along picture but Chantal HATES it so for the sake of my own life I wont be posting it. lol I do have the ultrasound of 11 weeks 3 days so here it is!
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And this is one of those high-tech 3D/4D ultrasounds, though my understanding of the 4th demention is that it is impossible for us to humanly understand a 4th dementional being, since 'we' are living in the reality of the 3rd demention. But thats a whole other blog post!
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As Chantal's belly grows and we get updates you'll get updated posts. I know I have an new regualr ultrasound too, so I am going to look for it and get it up here!
The Teardrop
So I picked up this trailer in Oshawa. Turns out I knew the person, it was a friend of a friend of mine. Got it at a great price too. All I had to do was take it apart and re-paint it. So this picture is of the Rodgman helping me take all the old rotting wood off the steel frame.
And of course the bolts were so rusted I had to get out some man tools and grind them off!
There's The Rocket in the back, what an awesome car.
The final product! Rusted, Salted and all. Theres a lot more work where that came from.Phew!
After that I took the beast apart and gave that a good grinding, I took of 7 years of rust and salt build up. I bought some red metal primer, and some black Trem-Klad? I think thats the name of it. Black Anti-Rust metal paint basically. To get rid of the rust and repaint it, it took me almost 5 days of work time! (8 hours a day for 5 days)
After it was painted and dried I had to go out and pick up some new bolts it since the others were so rusted, and of course since I put so much effort into the frame I couldn't just put old bolts on it! Thats me putting LocTite on the bolts so it doesn't come apart on me while on the road!
TADA! Now doesn't that look nice? An awesome flat black not an ounce of rust. You can see some primer on the front bit there, I scratched some spots putting it back together so I need to re-paint it.
Well the next task was the new flooring. I measured the metal frame to get the proper lengths. The trailer is 96" long and 51" wide. So I had to build the frame 96"long and 50 1/4" wide since the walls are 3/8" plywood and sit right on the metal frame I need to give a little play (3/8+3/8=6/8 which is 3/4). The floor frame is made of 2x2 and the flooring itself is 1/2" plywood, doubled up on the back for the spare tire and on the front, just cause I wanted it even! The black 'paint' you see is actually Undercoating tar. The stuff stinks, and its sticky as hell. I ended up getting some all up my arm and had to scrub for an hour just to get the crap off! But none the less, the tar insulates, and prevents the wood from rotting out from road moisture.
So after all that I put on the metal frame, marked the bolts holes, drilled out the wood in the appropritate spots, bolted the wooden frame onto the metal one and Voila! Theres the lady right up on it! This picture is mimicing the picutre in the manual I am using to build this, so thats why Chantal is up there.
Oh I forgot to mention that before I put the wood frame on the trailer I insulated the floor, which once fully built, will keep out more moisture so there is no condensation on the inside. It will also keep us warm on the colder nights.
Saturday, July 11, 2009
I like to add things as I go
I am adding interesting information I find on the interenet as I go along here. This is some very interesting and helpful ideas to save you a buck or two that I found on THIS site.
Frugal For Life Tips
# Use your your shredded paper for shipping - fill up plastic grocery bags to cut down on the mess
# Before you print off the web, do a print preview. Many times, the last page is blank and you can stop the print be for that page and save yourself paper and time.
# BBQ Grease Buildup: Wet rag with vegetable oil. Wipe the greasy area and it will come right off, then clean as usual.
#Leftover pancake batter makes good fried onion rings.Let soak in batter for fifteen minutes. Fry in hot oil
# The Cheapest funnel - cut the top off soda bottles and flip them over for use in your car, kitchen or in the children's sandbox.
# Don't want to fix broken furniture - take it apart and salvage all the good wood, hinges, and knobs for future projects
# Cut out the magnets at the bottom of (some) shower curtains before you throw them away, and use on the refrigerator
# Don't toss the pill bottle cotton - Use the cotton from pill bottles to clean small electronics like remotes - cotton and vinegar work great
# Juice Concentrate Lids - used for drink coasters, quickie ashtrays for smokers and Furniture leg coasters
# Carpet remnant uses - Lay on under the car,Scraps catch car leaks,Cut down on noise,Exercise Mat,Shoe insert
# When out of oil and need to grease a skillet- Rub it with a cut open potato.
#Soften Wind-chimes: stuff a cotton ball into each end of each metal cylinder. The result will be a muted, much softer sound
# Use your bathroom mirror as a dry erase board - much better than a shower wall, I've tried and have the grout to clean up
It may sound cheap but they are really great ideas!
# Use your your shredded paper for shipping - fill up plastic grocery bags to cut down on the mess
# Before you print off the web, do a print preview. Many times, the last page is blank and you can stop the print be for that page and save yourself paper and time.
# BBQ Grease Buildup: Wet rag with vegetable oil. Wipe the greasy area and it will come right off, then clean as usual.
#Leftover pancake batter makes good fried onion rings.Let soak in batter for fifteen minutes. Fry in hot oil
# The Cheapest funnel - cut the top off soda bottles and flip them over for use in your car, kitchen or in the children's sandbox.
# Don't want to fix broken furniture - take it apart and salvage all the good wood, hinges, and knobs for future projects
# Cut out the magnets at the bottom of (some) shower curtains before you throw them away, and use on the refrigerator
# Don't toss the pill bottle cotton - Use the cotton from pill bottles to clean small electronics like remotes - cotton and vinegar work great
# Juice Concentrate Lids - used for drink coasters, quickie ashtrays for smokers and Furniture leg coasters
# Carpet remnant uses - Lay on under the car,Scraps catch car leaks,Cut down on noise,Exercise Mat,Shoe insert
# When out of oil and need to grease a skillet- Rub it with a cut open potato.
#Soften Wind-chimes: stuff a cotton ball into each end of each metal cylinder. The result will be a muted, much softer sound
# Use your bathroom mirror as a dry erase board - much better than a shower wall, I've tried and have the grout to clean up
It may sound cheap but they are really great ideas!
The First of Many
I'm not sure how all this works, but Drew's Reality Check made me start my own. My understanding of blogging is that it is all about persistence.
Keepin' at 'er.
Since the readers I am writing this for are more than five hours away, I am attempting to help you; become apart; of the amazing things that are unfolding as Chantal and I,
Make Sense of a Senseless World.
First I would like to make an understanding of the title of this blog. No it is not meant to be a depressing name in anyway. It is meant as the title to a journey (or adventure) my Fiancee and I are about to undertake as a united couple. The trials and tribulations of an existence where credits cards are crappy, corporations rule all, and gas prices don't ever seem fair. But as a very wise man once said "life ain't fair, now do your homework."
*sigh*
Well none the less I am probably going to be doing most of the writing in this blog, Chantal may interject here and there with her wind passings or other comical excerpts as she is more famously known for.
For those of you who don't follow Drew's Reality Check, this dude is an epic one. He made a self-discovering journey to the northern reaches of Alberta, through treacherous winds and tremendous storms to rest gleefully in Athabasca. He is a photojournalist and a damn good one at that. His girlfriend Danielle seems pretty cool, but the telephone can only say so much, she must be rigorously tested with thousands of questions pertaining to the one she calls her man to gain the 'approval'. This may only commence when we officially meet in September. And might I add Drew is my best friend and the best man at my soon to be wedding. Keep up the epicness buddy. Keep on keepin' on.
And as for us (Chantal and I) we are due to wed on the twenty-sixth of September two thousand nine, and pop one out the twenty-sixth of October two thousand nine. Man is that an intense feeling. Becoming a Dad, I can't speak on Chantal's part but I'm sure the feeling of becoming a Mom is equally as awesome. As for the future I will become an RCMP officer where Chantal and I (and baby in tow) can live where we love it the most in this beautiful country. On the west-side. (figures crossed at being posted out there) I am sure everyone is wondering if you don't already know that the baby's name shall be Claire therefore making it a girl. (or us very cruel parents).
Also throughout this blog I will be posting pictures of a project I am working on. The awesome Teardrop Trailer. It's been going on since the start of May and I have lots of pictures I need to post to catch up to where I am at now. (hey Kev you better be keepin up with all this) (hey Syl you better tell Kev I wrote that) As well as I will be posting ultrasounds of my little baby, and on Mama's approval her growing belly. This week Chantal is hitting the Twenty-fifth week of pregnancy. She is glowing and beautiful; which everyone will soon see. And pictures of fun stuff Chantal and I go out and do, like this monkey, more baboon, it looks like it's... ah never mind you'll see soon enough.
I hope every read is an enjoyable one.
Keepin' at 'er.
Since the readers I am writing this for are more than five hours away, I am attempting to help you; become apart; of the amazing things that are unfolding as Chantal and I,
First I would like to make an understanding of the title of this blog. No it is not meant to be a depressing name in anyway. It is meant as the title to a journey (or adventure) my Fiancee and I are about to undertake as a united couple. The trials and tribulations of an existence where credits cards are crappy, corporations rule all, and gas prices don't ever seem fair. But as a very wise man once said "life ain't fair, now do your homework."
*sigh*
Well none the less I am probably going to be doing most of the writing in this blog, Chantal may interject here and there with her wind passings or other comical excerpts as she is more famously known for.
For those of you who don't follow Drew's Reality Check, this dude is an epic one. He made a self-discovering journey to the northern reaches of Alberta, through treacherous winds and tremendous storms to rest gleefully in Athabasca. He is a photojournalist and a damn good one at that. His girlfriend Danielle seems pretty cool, but the telephone can only say so much, she must be rigorously tested with thousands of questions pertaining to the one she calls her man to gain the 'approval'. This may only commence when we officially meet in September. And might I add Drew is my best friend and the best man at my soon to be wedding. Keep up the epicness buddy. Keep on keepin' on.
And as for us (Chantal and I) we are due to wed on the twenty-sixth of September two thousand nine, and pop one out the twenty-sixth of October two thousand nine. Man is that an intense feeling. Becoming a Dad, I can't speak on Chantal's part but I'm sure the feeling of becoming a Mom is equally as awesome. As for the future I will become an RCMP officer where Chantal and I (and baby in tow) can live where we love it the most in this beautiful country. On the west-side. (figures crossed at being posted out there) I am sure everyone is wondering if you don't already know that the baby's name shall be Claire therefore making it a girl. (or us very cruel parents).
Also throughout this blog I will be posting pictures of a project I am working on. The awesome Teardrop Trailer. It's been going on since the start of May and I have lots of pictures I need to post to catch up to where I am at now. (hey Kev you better be keepin up with all this) (hey Syl you better tell Kev I wrote that) As well as I will be posting ultrasounds of my little baby, and on Mama's approval her growing belly. This week Chantal is hitting the Twenty-fifth week of pregnancy. She is glowing and beautiful; which everyone will soon see. And pictures of fun stuff Chantal and I go out and do, like this monkey, more baboon, it looks like it's... ah never mind you'll see soon enough.
I hope every read is an enjoyable one.
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