Jumping the Gun

Bill has been so hard at work organizing the West Wing so we can start building the rooms that Sunday he decided that he needed a pat on the back. I came home from visiting Mom and Dad and found some animals on the wall. There was the American Bison, Eddy the Elk from his first big game hunt in Alberta and one of his African animals that I can't remember the name of. It's a good thing he has organized as much as he has because these guys take up a lot of room. The Bison sticks out almost 3 feet.This wall will be part of his trophy room. The room is no where near ready for things to be hung but this was very important to him that we will work around these guys

The garage door will be taken out, the walls will be plywood with texture so we don't have to hunt for studs to hang the trophies. If anyone has a trick to make drywall texture stick to the plywood we would love to know it.

Unfortunately, when he started working with the animals it was discovered that the extreme heat and cold of three years in a storage unit dried a lot of the glue and the skin split. Once everything is in conditioned air hopefully we can do some repair work. Of course his plan for fixing the problem is for us to go back on safaris and just replace the trophies that are damaged. Sorry Bill we are getting too old to be climbing and  hiking the Southern Alps in New Zealand, we've seen the African countries and there are  many more places to explore. I think we can just fix the problems and those that can't be fixed can be hung high out of close inspections.