Today is the official set up day for Autumn Lights, but scheduled yesterday to get a jump start on the grapes. Barry set them up in the living room yesterday to reacquaint himself with the wiring and assembly while I went out on errands to pick up price tags, batteries etc. After a few hours, Barry got all the sections of the grapevine together and now we have instructions to follow for next time (always a good idea on something so complicated.) Here's a pic of Barry in the Brugmasnia at the Gardens at Lake Merritt - the light is so pretty in the late afternoon.
When we got home last night, after meditation class, we still had to fit the new red tail feathers into the peacock and figure out how to secure them. Barry devised a thin plywood receptacle which we magic-sculpted into place inside the bird so that a corresponding key on each of the feathers can be place through a slot in the plywood and by virtue of weight and pivot, the glass locks into place. (Sorry - no photo!)
Off to bed at 1:30am and now we're up and at 'em to load the van and drop off boxes of glass at Lake Merritt when the gate opens at 9 am. Our friend Lee Miltier is meeting us back at home at 10 to load up the peacock. It will take three of us to lift it onto a cozy air mattress in the back of the van. Wish us luck with the set-up!
Off to bed at 1:30am and now we're up and at 'em to load the van and drop off boxes of glass at Lake Merritt when the gate opens at 9 am. Our friend Lee Miltier is meeting us back at home at 10 to load up the peacock. It will take three of us to lift it onto a cozy air mattress in the back of the van. Wish us luck with the set-up!
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