About a month ago, I went down the basement to find my paint rack knocked over onto my paint table and all of the things in various stages of build and paint on it, and a domino effect of stuff knocked off of shelves, broken bottles on the floor, etc.
Over 400 bottles of paint (why do I have 400 bottles of fricking paint?, Am I batty?), figures, models, tools. Things squished, squashed, and mangled. My paint water jar that survived with me from the 1970s ... shattered. A terrible loss. There was gnashing of teeth and cursing of small squeaky furry things.
It appears that a critter got into the basement, a dungeon-like stone construct (the basement, not the critter), built when Rutherford B. Hayes was in office, and unleashed its fury on my paint table (the critter, not Rutherford B. Hayes) upon finding that it could not get out through the window overlooking it (there are toothmarks on the window frame, silly squeaky furry thing). It looks like it knocked something off a shelf that fell between the wall and the back of the paint rack, pushing the paint rack over in a cataclism, probably terrifying said critter, which ran in Bronko Nagurski-like fashion across other racks and shelves leaving an absolute wake of destruction behind it.
I picked up most of the stuff on discovery and reorganized the paint rack, sorted through broken bits and miniatures and got about half of the total chaos resorted. Since that time, I hadn't been back in the basement, because work picked up and I've been working everyday since.
On return to my hobby pit this morning I was greeted by 300 percent humidity, as my dehumidifier had quit working at some point.
The basement is simply miserable. We've had rain nearly everyday for what seems like the last three weeks, and it seems that we are only capable of having monsoons these days. I remember a time when we used to have rain showers, a light rain, no wind or thunder and lightning to speak off, no flash floods, just a gentle wetting of the ground, without drowning everything in site.
In any event, there won't be any hobby activity, probably for the next few weeks as well, due to critters, weather and the fact that this is likely my only free week until late September. Too many obstacles.
It seems that when it rains, it pours.😁
Oh, I make me laugh!
By the way, for all you youngsters, and people otherwise, who would have no reason to know; Bronko Nagurski was a punishing fullback for the Chicago Bears in the 1930s-40s, American football. I remember seeing his NFL Championship ring at the NFL Hall of Fame in the 1970s, and it was ridiculously huge. Seriously, it looked like something that was made for Andre the Giant.
