Today: Rear wall arch molding installed.
Between putting up the front wall arch molding, and today's report on putting up the REAR wall arch molding, me and Lil' Queeny went dancing.
Now I'm not a dancer. It just never clicked with me. I'm tall, always have been. I stick out like a sore thumb! DW's tall - always has been. But the difference is - she sticks out like a GREEN Thumb. So one day, like almost 100 years ago, we signed up for western dance lessons.
And what did the instructor lady do? I guess she didn't want any one person to be stuck with who brung 'em, so she mixed us all up. Trading partners. Didn't work. Didn't take. See I only wanted to dance with DW - and she with me. We were there to learn how to dance with one another. What a concept!
But this little cow-lady (the instructor) - is that the polite way to say it? - she mixed us up - so we could learn to dance with anybody. Ha! What a joke.
So most of my partners, were like reaching WAAAY up, instead of out, and DW was like reaching WAAAAY down, instead of out - and the whole result was less interest in reaching out - and more interest in staying home! Because we never FIRST learned how to reach out! And it ain't even the learning, it's the practice AFTER the learning.
But those chip-kickers can really move! Have you seen 'em? Beyonce's got nothing on them!
Their cowboy hats just sort of float by - in a straight line, right around the dance floor. In a circle, like cows heading home. If you could put a GPS unit on those hats, you would see they don't change elevation (or would that be altitude?) as they circle the dance floor. Two-step they call it. I think. And SOME can even waltz across Texas!
But now, take your eyes off'n those hats that are floating along like an Autumn leaf on a still, slow river, and look at their feet. Turbulent! I tell you, Turbulent! That coordination, that sense of movement, that repeated motion - oh man it's sweet! Poetry in motion! 'Course I've never really been big on POETRY either - but that's just me.
The image I always get is like the Tasmanian Devil in the cartoons? Animated motion in a whirlwind while the facial features are still there? Or Wile E. Coyote falling off a cliff, where his face waits just a few seconds before joining back up with the motion of his body? You get the picture. Two-Stepping!
Or like my 6th grade teacher when we had that first boy/girl dance? I say it like there were priors. I mean, prior to that we didn't really have boy/boy dances, or girl/girl dances, but in general, we just didn't mix much - you know? We probably should have. Like maybe we could have grown up more interested in what both genders can bring to the table, if we hadn't been all programmed to highlight the differences.
But I told him (the teacher), I said "I don't know how to dance". He said, "just feel the music and move your body". Oh sure, easy for HIM to say! He pulled his pants up way past his waist!
No, I never felt the click. People think I'm not enjoying the music - but I feel it inside - and believe me - there's enjoyment baby! Inside me! Yes Sir! It's in me, and it "don't come out". But still the boy boogie-woogies!
Anyway, me and Queeny went dancing and I spun her around. After clearing out all the projects and stuff from under Lil' Queeny, we got her pointed back out toward "load". Exciting huh?
Most of the work left is through her entry door, so I put it in furthest - by the bench, and set the cab-over out - toward the overhead door.
And then I proceeded to the butyl tape install method described yesterday.
Here's the stepped back view of the tape runs prior to adding the molding. I think there's three layers here.
And a closeup.
Then with both pieces in place, time to mark - and cut to length. I tried to center the joint, and also equalize the screw hole placement without adding new holes.
Which gave me this. Note the full cut at the joint, as compared to the bending cuts. But it hides well - don't 'cha think?
Good ooze all around.
After trimming - closeups. Note the jointing of the two pieces here in the center above the central clearance light.
And stepping back. Looks like I still have some trimming to do there.
Now THAT installation technique felt right - as compared to applying the tape to the trim first. I guess the problem with such a method is when you already have screw holes in the camper, and want to reuse those, so as to avoid too many new holes. Too many holes can weaken the region - I think. My jury is still out on "take down, cleanup, reapply butyl, re-install molding". But at least on NEW applications, putting tape on the camper, then covering it with the aluminum protection, felt much better to me.
I'm almost done with exterior trim now. So it's only right that I should be learning "best practices", since the job is over. Isn't that how it always works?
