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When I returned my Enterprise Rent-a-Car this morning, the attendant said, “Gas will run you $4.00 a gallon, you can leave your trash in the car, and do me a favor and go like this,” gesturing for me to wipe my chin. I’d saved some of the regular (non salted) butter, raspberry jelly and almond butter sandwich in my beard.

The rental mighty, sitting at a slight angle in the Georgia Foothills.

Our kitchen table gets a lot of action. Whenever my sister and I come home, we spend a lot of time eating, talking and especially doing homework there. I used to get mad at my sister for taking up the entire kitchen counter when she came home from college.

I made a butcher block table to do my studies one. It’s similar to the one we used in our former kitchen. I’m excited to continue with my portfolio, my studies and my studio — working at this table. It reminds me that not everything needs to be perfect. It also reminds me of home.

Pictures below, captions above.

Pine 2×6 and Poplar pallet sides joined and planed, then ripped into 1.25″ strips.

the tabletop glued and drying. The tabletop is 55″ by 24″

Finished product. The 28.5″ legs and roughy 1.5″ top make an ideal 30″ desk. I based it off of a desk in the Design Shop at LSU. The legs are made of Oak, and hold up everything in my backpack just fine.

I used 2 shorter pine pieces to scab together a frame long enough to span the entire bottom of the desk. Woodwork a la carte. The chair in the background folds up to take with you!

I’d like to add a triangle piece to stabilize the legs in time. They fit like an “L” around the corner of the frame. A closeup of the top. The holes are where the nails from the recycled lumber used to be. I like the knot hole in the middle. It reminds me of the need to not be a perfectionist!

Thanks for tuning in. 💻 Thanks to MW in the woodshop, Sauce aka floor mode and random girl aka design advice.

Chadd…out

Tuesday’s community meeting went a lot like this: We gathered in the studio for departure around 3pm. There were three or four models, two master plans, a stack of handouts and seven green infrastructure boards to account for. JB aka Timeshare, brought his model, along with Professor B and I in the remaining space of his car. The group of girls brought the other two models–a museum-board cutout of the city and the conservation land next to it–and a model of the city zoomed into downtown.

When we got to the church where all this was taking place, a handful of people were already gathered. Three engineers from the project, the town Secretary in charge of the bicycle pedestrian master plan, two people I later met, a town counselor, a reporter and some of LSU’s Coastal Sustainability Studio’s people.

I made sure to grab as many people as I could and bring them over to the LSU maps. A handful of men were already there when I got there. I hear stories about camping down the Amite from the Mississippi line to Denham Springs. Over the next three hour, a stream of people entered the common room. They made a circle around the room, coming into the engineers display first, our studio displays second, and CSS’s survey table last.

One woman told CSS’s survey that she was definitely depressed because her house was flooded, but she joked with me about the length of the survey. I wish I’d shown her my section model…

Mr. B attentively listening to a community guest. Skinny Jeans aka All You Can Eat Buffet giving the thumbs up. MuMu aka Toni Braxton standing between. Timeshare’s model in the foreground.

A top-view of JB’s model. It has different attributes that allow you to practice different configurations. For instance, there are curb bump-out pieces which allow you to build intersection pinch-points, raised planters to put along bicycle lanes, and grass strips to place as medians. All of these options could be the way Denham Springs remakes it’s town.

The gang is getting packed up to go home. The church parking lot is lacking trees, which could really give this space some ambiance. I believe the curb will capture rainwater and filter it through a vegetated swale before hitting grey stormwater pipes.

A picture of my model sitting curbside and inside