North Wall

After a lot of finicky work on the garage it was a pleasure to work on the pieces that make up the north wall. After a couple of hours on Friday night, it's starting to look like something. Well, the summer is definitely over and I had hoped to have this finished by now, but I'm about 115 parts shy of that goal :-) Maybe progress will be faster now that fall is here.

Robie House as of 1 Aug

One would think that with all the rain we've had in July that I'd have finished the Robie House by now. All I can say is that summer is still summer even with the rain. But, I did do a little work on this project over the weekend. The wall that attaches to the garage is under construction.

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Robie House, 20 June

Debra and I went on a road trip to Chicago back in the summer of 2007. The goal was to visit her cousin and his new wife. On the way there we took a circuitous route and went to see Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater near Pittsburgh. We also took a look at some of Wright’s houses in Oak Park and visited his home. In the gift shop I bought a copy of the Dover cut-out-and-assemble book / HO-scale model of Wright’s Robie house. I’ve never built a paper model such as this, but it seemed like a good time to try it. There’s been a lot of rain so far this summer, so I thought I’d try and build this model on whatever rainy evenings show up if I’m at loose-ends. It rained Saturday evening, so here’s the beginnings of the garage.