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This Weekend’s Fun
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Carrie thinks she got a day off because she wasn’t repairing something around the house and she got to do something she likes. But creating a stained glass replacement for a closet window would still be “work” on my list. Luckily for me, she likes making stained glass windows.

Carrie finished the designs for both closet windows on Saturday. On Sunday she managed to completely cut and dry-fit the glass for one window. She’d have been in the studio foiling on her lunch hour today if she hadn’t locked her keys inside the Studio last night.

She sent me to the hardware store to get glazers points so she’ll be ready to mount the window as soon as it is ready. I expect she’ll foil tonight and solder tomorrow night. The new window should be in place sometime Wednesday.

The window is a simple and elegant rose pattern. Carrie used some really cool dichroic glass for the rose petals so it will change color with the light of day and your perspective relative to the window. The glass surrounding the rose is textured and delicately wispy to complement the sweep of the rose’s stem and leaves without drawing too much attention away from the rose.

I stretched my creative talents to their limits this weekend by digging up about 200 feet of abandoned PVC from the backyard. Carrie told me it would only be 12 feet, but by the time I found the end of that first 12 feet that was attached to the water supply, I had dug across the yard three times and removed two distinct installations of sprinklers and one run of PVC used to shelter the power supply for the automatic controls. The specified 12 feet is the bed for the roses (real ones, not glass) that we brought from Redondo.

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