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Dicehouse #5 will be finished tonight!

And just in time as we are putting them out on the lake this weekend. This dicehouse has a really cozy feel with maple stain polyurethane to accent the weird spray-painted stripes that we found on this plywood from the bottom of the pile. I'm guessing that they are there to mark the quality of the lumber, but John thought they looked too cool to paint over. I figured out how to turn a couple of old exterior lights into candle sconces that will really accentuate the Den-like feel of this shanty.

These Things for Sale?

At 1:30 this afternoon I heard a knock on the porch door. I put down my bon bons and turned off my stories to see who it could be. I opened the door and found a somewhat familiar looking 60ish man on my porch. "These things for sale?" he asked.

I then went into the story of what the dICEHOUSES were, and why we were making them. I don't think he completely understood it. He said he and his wife didn't understand what the "H" and "Q" were on the main headquarters dICHOUSE (they are supposed to look like scrabble letters).

I told him he looked familiar and asked him his name. His name was John, and he lives in Shakopee (which is the first tier suburb of Mt.Holly). I explained who I was, and who Mike was. Shakopee having once been a small town, he knew both of our parents, where they currently or previously worked, what street one of them lives on, and even mentioned that he went to school with Mike's dad. We also figured out that the man lived across the street from my high school best friend. I asked him if he had heard of Mt.Holly, and he said, "Oh yes, we saw you in the paper a year ago." He thought it was pretty neat that we were trying to "make history" as he put it with making our own town.

Turns out he really didn't want to buy one; his question was merely a sort of pick-up line to start a discussion about the unusual fishhouses he had been driving by for weeks. He was impressed with the dICEHOUSES, and that we were doing something different and fun. He pointed out that it was something we could do with the family, and that he liked the idea of sitting down and playing games with the family on the ice.

I'm glad to know there are other crazies out here that will just knock on your door in the middle of winter. It's nice that there are similar small town folks in what sometimes still feels like a small town, despite the McMansions that popped up and condo's that killed the once historic downtown of Shakopee.

dICEHOUSE #4 1/2 ??????

Well, I was going to lay in bed all day on New Years Day. I lasted until maybe 9:00. But then the scrap plywood and plexi began calling. Autumn has been dying to help out with something on the dICEHOUSES. I decided, that we should make a dog house for any of our canine friends who decide to join us on the ice. Autumn thought it sounded like a good idea as long as she could paint it. What's gonna work? Teamwork. She's a beauty with her rainbow pips and drop down portal style door. Thanks for your help, Goomba.

dICEHOUSES Shanty #4 is in ship shape

Nussy chose a sweet gunboat grey for #4. Total battleship style. Won't he be surprised when he sees the nautical accents that have been lurking in the Mt. Holly Junkyard.

Well, we have one building weekend left. If we would like to be out on the ice on the 10th, we are in good shape. There's rumblings that we may be joined by a SUPERBEAST bogged down with hallucinogenics and and army of Texan aliens to cinch the deal.