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

 

Lego Downtown Diner–Part 2

Ten days. That’s how long it took me to build this complex set. These picture will help you understand why.

Huh, I just realized I never took a picture of the completion of phase 2. That was the rest of the interior and exterior of the diner on the ground floor. You’ll get to see the exterior in some of my other photos, though. Although in none of them is the waitress on roller skates visible–guess you’ll have to build it yourself to see her.

Phase 3 was the second floor–a gymnasium with dumbbells, weight bench, heavy bag, and boxing ring. It also has a male in trunks with gloves and a female in a sleeveless hoodie although you only get to see the hair of the female in these photos of the interior and front of phase 3.

  

Phase 4 was the third floor–a recording studio. The photo of the interior of this one was taken before I finished building it because I was afraid I wouldn’t be able to get the detail once all the walls and doors were up. There is a glass door that closed off the room with the microphone. Also, there’s a very textured wall to improve the sound of the recording.

  

Phase five was the roof and the car. Check out those tail fins! And that guitar player has a haircut we called a DA back in the 50s.

With it all put together it looks like this:

  

Now I get to spend a couple more days disassembling it and repackaging it into the five phases of building it. Using quart Ziplock bags means the next builder will only have to open five bags. But, it might take a little longer to sort out the pieces in each bag.

I wonder how many days it will take next time?

TTYL,

Linda