Author: sandcastle

Lego Assembly Square–Part 3

Part three is the third floor and roofs of the buildings.

Let start with the dance studio that is reached through the music store.

Next is a studio-sized apartment. With a model railroad!

Plus the apartment is connected to a rooftop outdoor kitchen.

And the completed set looks like this:

And here’s a closeup of the fountain for Tammy:

This is the third time I’ve built a version of this set. In between those times I managed to loose a bunch of pieces. I was careful with my photo angles in hopes you won’t be able to tell where they were supposed to be. Now I need to get busy ordering replacement pieces so I can sell this set along with a bunch of others to fund new sets. If you know anyone in the market in the Minneapolis area, tell them to keep an eye on Craigslist once the weather warms up here.

TTYL,

Linda

Lego Assembly Square–Part 2

The second floor of the Assembly Square kit contains a dentist’s office, photo studio, and a musical instrument store.

Dentist’s office:

Look at the dentist’s big smile. You don’t suppose that’s because he’s looking forward to the next patient’s pain, do you?

Photo Studio:

I can’t get over the idea of building a seamless backdrop out of Lego bricks.

Musical Instrument Store:

Just enough stock to supply one band.

Exterior including 2nd floor:

Love the tower room even if it doesn’t have anything inside it at this level.

Now on to the third floor.

OK. I’ll admit, I’ve already finished the interior of the first unit of the third floor. Because I had to wait for daylight to take pictures but not to continue building. 🙂

TTYL,

Linda

Lego Assembly Square–Part 1

Assembly Square is three buildings surrounding a single courtyard. On the ground floor there is a bakery, a florist, and a coffee shop.

The bakery interior:

  

The florist interior:

The coffee shop interior:

And all three finished surrounding the partially built fountain:

There are second and third floors yet to build.

Yes, I’m still having fun.

TTYL,

Linda

 

Water outage

In the winter in Minnesota it is not unusual to have a power outage although I am please to say we have not experienced one since moving back here.

But last night we had a water outage. It seems a pipe in the basement developed a leak. The water would have to be shut off for 9 hours to repair it and wait for the glue to dry. So we were notified water would be off from 9 pm last night to 6 am this morning. They recommended everyone fill their bath tub with water to use for flushing the toilets.

We don’t have a bath tub. Only a shower. Which normally is fine because we both prefer showers to baths.

What to do? What to do?

We went around the apartment collecting our plastic trash cans, filled them with water, and set them in the shower to be ready. And we put a bowl of water in the sink to use for hand washing.

I knew we could flush once using the reserve water in the tank. So, about 4 am, I flushed.

And the tank promptly refilled.

Apparently they were able to turn the cold water back on. We didn’t have hot water, though, until mid-afternoon.

It sure in nice to have someone else decide on and provide the fixes here.

So, we dumped out all those trash bins, dried them off, and returned them to their normal service.

And it was nice to have all that RV boondocking experience to know we could wash hands several times in just one bowl of water.

TTYL,

Linda