More on the boat bed and our weekend

Daniel spent a good portion of Saturday making a wall with portholes in it for the boat bed. Because of the way bunk bed posts stick out, without some kind of wall, there was a sizable gap between the mattress and the wall. Instead of putting another railing on that side, we thought something with portholes would be cool.

Daniel is happy with how the portholes turned out!

He used a big hole cutter and the router to make awesome wooden frames for the portals. I need to stain and varnish them before we permanently attach them to the white paneling. Right now they can pop out.

Next thing to do it make headboards!
This project is taking a really long time to complete. That's Ok though, because we don't plan to transition Mari into the new bed until she is about 2 years old.

Sunday, we didn't work on the bed at all because Daniel was busy replacing the intake manifold gasket on the Saturn. I helped a little bit. The Saturn has over 275,000 miles on it and has been problem free up until recently. For the past couple weeks the check engine light has been on. Daniel wasn't 100% sure replacing this would turn off the light, but figured it was worth a shot. He knew it was sucking in air because the idle would change when he sprayed cleaner around intake manifold...  Sure enough, the old gasket was falling to pieces and in pretty bad shape. I went to Pepboys looking for a new gasket, but they don't carry that kind. Advance Auto Parts had it, but first they accidentally sold me the wrong one. Fortunately we live about 2 miles from  them and I could do a quick return. Before going back, I wanted to make absolutely sure I knew what we were supposed to be getting, so I looked up the part number on the internet and wrote down other stuff too, including the price. When I got to the store and showed the guy the part number, he saw the price I found and said they would match it. So, that made me not so miffed that I had to run an extra errand. At least Mari stayed home with Daniel.
I should have taken some pictures of Daniel working on the car, because he got so dirty! The whole thing was harder to get apart than it was supposed to be. There wasn't as much room to get the manifold off as the instructions indicated, so he had to take a lot of other stuff apart. The weather was really nice (breezy, sunny, low 70's), which is great because he was outside from about 11am-6pm.
The other thing we did this weekend was yard work. I pulled all the weeds growing along the drainage area along our property line as well as the weeds in our driveway and path. Roundup would have been quicker, but we didn't have any, and it rained Saturday night, so they mostly came up OK. Our neighbor came over as I was doing it and said he would edge our yard with his edger next week. I filled up two large garbage bins with weeds and twigs.
That's pretty much our weekend!