Things are coming together!

We got LOADS done this weekend. We worked  8-9 hour days both Saturday and Sunday building and setting up; with Will on Saturday and Will, Rosa, and crew on Sunday.

Our first goal Saturday was to get the secret passage in the mine shaft (re) assembled. With the very un-level ground out back it was more of a challenge than anticipated, but after we struggled with the first couple panels we found our groove and the rest came together much quicker.

After that tarps rapidly went up around the perimeter and we began laying out pallets that will serve as barriers in the maze-y part of the mine shaft.

 Next we moved on to the Toxic Dump area. We're creating a fenced-in area where the toxic "zombidium" extracted from the mine is stored; and where infected individuals claw at the visitors passing by...

We had the large sand area from a previous swimming pool setup, so we built a frame around it and mounted wire to it. We also strung up a pair of tarps that will hide the area from view until people leaving the mine shaft come around the corner where it begins. 

 The "compound".

 Close up of the bottom of the fence, corroded and eaten through by the toxic "zombidium" and some of its victims!

Final touches on this later will include some "great stuff" (painted the same toxic green) "oozing" out from under the fence...

Also for this weekend, we built the frame of the (carport) field hospital area. This area will be a zig-zag passageway divided by curtains among hospital beds and other surprises.

We got the overhead frame up (made up of the 1" emt conduit) ready to hang curtains. There are still several props and surprises that need to be built for this area, but getting the frame and overall layout built was a major accomplishment.

Finally for this weekend, we got the conduit frame that covers the front of the house assembled and all the new flats we created for the front-porch morgue were drilled and fitted to be attached to the front wall of the house for next weekend.

 

We will also attach all the tarps to the front of the house and assemble the front-yard spanning spider web next weekend...And probably remove all the furniture from the front porch and start assembling all the morgue tables. 

Pity the mail/fedex delivery people that end up delivering to us after next weekend!

Hi Ho Hi Ho... It's off to the mine we go...

First, last night's haul from the local Home Depot. Every (straight) piece of 1"x10' EMT conduit they had left in the store (sadly only 10 and I still need about 17 more) plus some pallets (got permission from the store manager to relieve them of some of their spare pallets!). Pallets will form some of the dividers in the mine shaft.

Recruited a new helper today; Greg Phillips came by and together we managed to put together the rest of the mine shaft structure! Even got a tarp over half of it (the tarp for the other half is on order and hasn't arrived yet). Many thanks to Greg as I couldn't have done it all myself!

Good progress; got done exactly what I was hoping to get done today. It only took us two or three times per connector to get things straight ;-)

 We even laid down indoor-outdoor carpeting over the grass so things don't get muddy/sloppy - and so things look more like a mine/dirt and less like a yard inside.

Tomorrow if I have the energy I'll try to disassemble the mine-shaft passage way (see earlier blog posts on that) and get it hauled out into it's final position.

Also on the agenda tomorrow (time and energy permitting) is the setup and first fitting of the pipe structure that will go in the carport to support the field hospital area and dividers. 

Now we're cooking with gas!



 Haunt On!