Post #245206 by Bay Park Buzzy on Wed, Jul 26, 2006 11:10 PM

Zaya: It's your fault!!!
I'm sorry to let all my loyal followers down the last couple of days. The computer hasn't been working too well and I keep losing my signal. To top that off, it has been way too hot to do anything outside the last few days. I've been purposely avoiding my next carving project. Somehow, I got subcontracted to carve a tiki without my approval. Paid in advance too, so I couldn't really refuse it. My objection: I have to carve an exact copy of the worst tiki I ever made. Grumble...Drew it out today-will carve it tomorrow, but no pictures because it was bad enough the first time....
I'm also resting up. I have 11 tikis on order and I need to start busting them out real soon. It's been too hot to really make it enjoyable to prep the logs right now, so I've been waiting until it cools a bit...
And I have 4 tikis to sand and finish...
Stickers too? Don't get me started...
I did set up a couple of parties, so for you guys to not think I have been slacking the last couple days, I'll show you some pictures of just another day at the office...
:down:At the Playboy Golf tournament....

:down:We set up 5, 10' by 10' tiki bars and huts around the course. Benzart said that my job rethatching the Luau hut was a job "Everybody" would want. I agreed until this job...Everybody REALLY does want THIS job. It's been a good month for THOSE type of jobs...

This is hole #1. They get you all liquored up before you start and then tempt and distract you with scantly clad models :down:

They parked a couple of mid life crises mobiles next to the huts. I do not know what kind of car that fancy import job is. I would have been stoked to see a 1968 Dodge Hemi Dart though :down:

Another car...

I don't have pictures of the other holes, but one of them was from a high end tequila company, and the other was Steinlager...Here is the free swag I walked away with from those two holes. The tequila retails for over 100 a bottle...:down:

I also got a stupid looking playboy golf hat that I already lost and an autographed copy of this month's playboy.

In between setting up and tearing down the golf course, I made enough money setting up a sports bar themed back yard party to buy my girlfriend a fancy pants woodburner...

We threw all this together from scratch the night before the party. I spent the evening searching the rafters of my garage for all my old beer signs and lights, sports banners, and designing a custom bar logo sticker for the windows of two structures we built for the party.
Here is one of the two structures :down:

The walls are plywood with a false brick pattern, set 12 feet high. The baseballs on top are actually foam cooler lids with hand painted stitching on them. We also had soccer, basketball, and tennis balls like this. The 21 and over sign used to be on my bedroom door when I lived in a "party house" by the beach. The banners were from the first few Holiday Bowls that my Grandparents took me to when I was little. Right now Grandma is rolling over in her grave...The beer signs came from when I was in high school and worked at a liquor store. The sign in the window was my first custom sticker logo and is back lit.
There was another bar we set up, but one of the guys I worked with got sick and I had to drive him around in my air conditioned truck until he felt better,so I didn't get a picture of it...
the family that threw this party was way happy with the end result.That's how you throw together a theme party in 10 hours...
It was super hot this day and I sweat out 8 pounds in about 5 hours...All I did was surf today and sleep. You guys are all caught up now and I hope I didn't cause you any worry.
At His Busiest to Buy His Babe a Wood Burner Buzzy Out!