Bar Up

We invited people over on New Years Eve, and when it all go settled about 12 people showed up for a flamboyant-less evening.  The big event is raising the bar.  For 360 days a year it stays hidden from view.  It is tucked away in the basement waiting for some special event or occasion to be summoned to use.  I somehow managed a water hose repair as one of them was had a 3cm split up its side.  But that will happen.
 
The whole ensemble is quite the engineering feet.  Perhaps it has been mentioned.  But tucked away under the living room is a 2x4 foot bar.  It is plumbed with water and has a sink.  It has an electrical outlet and working lights.  It has a mini refrigerator as well.  It is rigged up on an old 1980s Craftsman garage door opener.  It is counter weighted and balanced with an old steel railroad track, bricks, and different pulleys to make it all just so.  Neighbours told us back in the day people would drive past the house and purposely click their garage door openers so that the bar would raise to the surprise of Ken and Dorthy.  I think there is a bit of exaggeration in that story, but I'll go with it for flare.

So there it is and it is a fun party attraction.

So we've just been hanging  a lot around the house and haven't really gone and done too much outside and in the community.