Scrap wood and spare parts DIYs

[Guest]

I love making do with what I have at hand, and Cooterville offers a vast assortment of all manner of stuff. The quite comfy backrests on the cypress log seats around the firepit are old car headrests and gutted kayak seats.



One thing Cooterville has plenty of is scrap wood. Entire buildings full of old lumber and scrap wood. Late friend Dave never threw away a single scrap of wood. Or much of anything else.

Colorful beer bottle caps are not exactly Cooterville unicorns either. This is not an original idea, Beer Cap Maps sells pricey precise State shaped cut outs

http://www.beercapmaps.com/shop/state-maps

Instead I went ISO scraps of wood that already showed some weathering or existing State-shaped cuts. A little NC, a little AZ; both important places to Cooterville denizens. Maybe Florida next.



More scrap wood pieces. Cooterville is backwoods convenient to nowhere, and so equally convenient to everywhere, and needed a M.A.S.H. style signpost pointing to places dear to my late friend Dave, each painted by different accomplices and partners in crime in the locale of their best memories.



I left another dozens signposts for friends and colleagues to paint with their memorable destination of choice; Nonesuch Bermuda, Murphytown NC, Dollly Dods WVA, Sierra Madres Mnts Cuba, Sambos Tavern Lepsic DE, Offshore Hatteras at “The Point” in the Gulf Stream. Wall Drug SD, or South of the Border SC. I’m not sure if Guam should feature the Spam logo or the territorial seal:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guam#/media/File:Coat_of_arms_of_Guam.svg

This may be friend Dave’s evolving headstone, contributed by his friends and colleagues.

 

[Boreal Birch]

Everyone of us needs a friend like you when we cross over to the other side. Dave was blessed to have you!!
BB

 

[Guest]

Everyone of us needs a friend like you when we cross over to the other side.

BB, Dave was an amazing guy and his orbit exerted an extraordinary gravitational pull. To wit, his friends still gather a couple times a year to honor his legacy and keep his crap going.

Part of keeping Dave’s crap going is simply that I never laugh as loud or as often as when I am with his chosen companions in Cooterville. I am honored to be among that cherry picked group of sarcastic prankster deviants.

I don’t remember the last time I laughed as hard as when watching friend Zim walk out to his van and spot the “FREE CANDY” sign and Dakimakura hug pillow.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakimakura

The best part of that joke is that Zim makes me look like a spendthrift. That was an expensive oversized pillow and Jared Fogel pillow case and after a night’s sleep, by his own admission, far nicer than anything Zim owns.

We all know he is still clutching that same oversized Fogel-headed pillow, and will be for years to come.



A “gift” that keeps on giving. Dave would have approved.

I’m looking forward to seeing the evolution of the M.A.S.H signpost.

 

[Iskweo]

I spent the other day building a firewood rack out by the firepit. Constructed entirely of on hand materials, or lumber that I picked up that morning on the dump run....hey free lumber is too good to pass up. As modifications to the design arose I simply did a walkabout to seek out more lumber for the project. In the end it was a magnificent effort that pleases me greatly. And it cost nothing.

Christy

 

[Alan Gage]

That Cooterville clan sounds like quit a collection. Dave sounds like he was quite a guy; both from your posts and reading his book on the Gulf stream.

Loved the van and those back rests are ingenious, especially the old head rests.

Alan