What to do with Lathe

(from April 2014)

What do you do with unlimited amounts of lathe? Stack it and store it. People around here seem to love it.

Check out some of the lathe art I've spotted around town:

This beautiful bar was made by the owners of Pip's Donuts. Yummy mini donuts and delicious chai.

This wall was found at a local architectural salvage mall. I want!

Meanwhile, spring is in full bloom, which means miles and miles of blossoming trees!

and bees, hand delivered, courtesy of the farmer:

and children, who like to make me sneeze:

Honey, buy me a cute trailer

So, sometime late spring, I suddenly became obsessed with owning a little vintage trailer. And I decided one day that I was going to drive up to the suburbs of Seattle to buy a certain cute little one that I had seen on Craig's List. A 1963 Shasta Airflyte, nonetheless! It was going to solve all the problems of where we would stay during the renovation, and eventually become a vacation-mobile/kids playhouse/guest cottage.

Let me tell you, getting the opportunity to buy one of these is pretty tough to do. I had been searching with fervor. Every time I'd answer an ad, an ad that just popped up, the seller would announce that someone had already bought it. So I wasn't going to let this one go. This man said I was first in.

So my husband comes home from work on a Friday, and I tell him that on Saturday, we are all going to drive to somewhere outside of Seattle (approximately 3 hours), and haul a trailer home.

You should have seen the look on his face. I might as well have announced that we were going to get full body waxes that weekend. He pouted, he yelled, he stared me down, he gave me dirty looks, and then, he said ok. That is usually the evolution of me getting my way.

It's not like it was just my idea. The kids have been wanting a "house car" for a long time. Because they think it would be neat to do things in a little house that you can drive, like not be late for school or get stuff you might forget. Or have sleepovers with friends. What a great fantasy!

So we decided to make a weekend out of it. Drive up to Seattle, drive over to this random place to get the trailer, head through central washington and down through some college town. It was awesome, and now I have a cute little trailer to call my own. Too bad it's a fixer upper....

Here are some pictures from our adventure!

Farmland...

Wild Mustang Country...

Stonehenge and Sam Hill Memorial...

Hmmm, maybe he is not having a bad time after all? Maybe the wife was right?

and here she is in her new home!

did we camp in it? no, it's gross. and this is why you should be VERY CAREFUL before you buy one of these on ebay. Which we didn't. I saw exactly what I was getting. But if you don't like things like mold or dry rot, maybe vintage isn't the way to go. That's ok. we'll fix it. Eventually.