Trapeze building and pipe construction

So on Monday Vern and I put the peddle to the metal and started building the blocks for my pipe walking/hand balancing apparatus. The whole process of planning, design and building took a week. Actual construction just took a morning. The blocks are four feet tall and will eventually do the job of holding my 12 foot long, inch and 5/8ths thick walking pipe in place. Still planning to add some little flourishes here and there, like a plank off one side to hand balance on, and holes in front to walk up, but these are the basic building blocks (hehe) of the thing. I ordered the pipe at Dunklee's metal and will pick it up on Tuesday, so the whole thing should be done this week. Yay!

There's Vern working on drilling one of the walls.

Aren't they beautiful! We left the back end of both blocks
open to make placement and removal of the pipe easier.

Yesterday's trapeze building workshop was equally fun and productive. Turns out I'm a natural at splicing rope. I'm already in love with my new trapeze. Just need to finish constructing and sewing the arms, then I'm good to go. I guess Khoja the one eyed cat likes her too :)

Ah, splicing. Not bad for my first time, eh?

There she is.

That doesn't really look too comfortable, but she looks
totally blissed out. Maybe she has secret kitty aerial
aspirations. 

I've always enjoyed building things. Man, circus just won't stop giving me the opportunity to do ALL the things I love!