Monday, August 22, 2005

WORK ON TA IS DONE

It is a very exciting time, for the past 4 months or so Mom has been helping Frank build an office space for transportation alternatives.

The project was not anticipated to take as long as it did, but that's what happens when there are too many tasks and just Frank to complete them.
It all started romantic and glamorous, they were making these desks for this new office space, there was a lot of sawing and dust, they were heavy and the days were long but it was fun.

Then the other pieces came, the industrial shelving that came in tiny pieces you had to screw and level togther. The homosote sheets that clogged up the air conditioner vent when they had to be cut in the conference room. The hours of cutting poly carbonate sheets, and the sawing of emt piping. Then the polyurinathaning that would not end, and thankfully the end to the circus paints that were going to be on the cabinet doors.
And then you can never forget the endless hours of leveling/screwing/bolting/sawing/drilling and painting.

Mom will miss it and it was fun, (when they were not in a hypoglycemic haze) from pushing themselves too hard to get all the work done fast.

Mom will miss (or maybe not)the sweat, the problem solving / the dust and lastly spending every gd weekend there for what felt like eternity!

I guess when you love someone, and you also like volunteering and helping, any task can get done. And as Paul said "you better do something special for your sweet thing!" Which Frank has and continues to do!

1 comment:

Daniel said...

If the Transportation Alternatives company has a big opening gala and I'm invited....I'm going to rent a stretch Hummer and pull that thing up right out front and honk the horn a few times. Then when everyone looks out the window in horror they will see me waving and saying HI FRANK HI LAURA! with a big smile on my face. frigging bike riding, t-shirt wearing, compost eating hippies. oh sorry.