Pretty much all the "fab" work is done. I'm going to take out the x-member and weld it solid, then I'll be done.
The painting and frame cleaning didn't happen. Wife is starting to get angry I'm spending all my time in the garage, so we're going out and about for a while. Honestly, I'm pretty wore out anyways. I need cooler weather to be doing all this.
I agree with the cooler weather part. I have some final sandblasting to do on my 69 cuda. Temps are finally working their way down to the 80s. Wearing a tyvek suit, a respirator, and a sand blasting hood and gloves, you dont want do do that in 100° weather. Not unless you want heat stroke lol.
I hear ya. My wife gets a little jealous when I spend too much time in the shop. It's a balancing act. She calls all my junk I work on my mistresses. I must be lucky or just overwhelmed then because I have several of them all different brands including my GMT. She does tell me she prefers me in the shop to going to the bar lol.
We do date night every friday. We have a jar full of folded pieces of paper of all the restaurants we like. Every friday she picks a paper, I pick a paper. From there we pick one out of those 2. The one we dont pick goes back in the jar. The one we do pick goes in a second jar. This eliminates the places she likes that are called "I dont know," and "I dont care". Being chivalrous, I let her pick which one of the 2 she wants to go to every friday.
During the covid scare, there were a couple places doing take out, and I did covid date night in my shop. I strung up some string lights, got the folding card table, table cloth, oil lamp, some special dishes for the occasion, and used laminated wiring schematics for placemats. She really appreciated the efforts I went through. This fall, I will do that again. Sometimes it's about doing even small stuff for them when they least expect it.
I got a new daily driver on order to replace a shot 15 year old chevy HHR. A ford maverick. We are gonna take it to the drive in theater, and try out the truck bed with a blow up mattress lol. Always keep em off their game by doing unpredictable stuff for em. It shows your always interested in the chase. My wife calls me Pepe LePew not because I fart a lot, but because shes like Penelope Pussycat and I'm always in the chase lol. The new truck is by design. Small truck bed, Penelope has to get closer. Same reason I turn the heater down in the winter, I jokingly tell her she has to cuddle up for warmth lol.