Making some progress

Aaron and I stayed over at his parents' house on Saturday, so that we could get up early and work on Sammie. I know it doesn't seem like it, but we're making progress.

And yes, this is turning into a bigger project than we had wanted. I've started calling this the "good enough" bike. As in, do these fenders look good enough?

It's really getting to the point that I just want to ride the stupid thing!

Oh, Sammie, I'm sorry. You're not stupid. Just a little decrepit.


And here are the nice shiny fenders I worked so hard to make pretty.


Aaron's cleaning my bike. Hmmm... something's missing. What is it?


Oh, I know. The engine.


And here they are together. Maybe someday, they'll really be back together.

Just a girl and her fender

Sammie moved more toward getting torn down to be built back up. My job -- the only thing I really understand -- is to clean stuff. I started with the rear fender below. It's pretty nasty, huh? My job this week, which I haven't started on b/c it's been so dreadfully cold, is to finish Brillo-padding it and then to polish it up. I also have the new front fender to polish up as well. Fun, fun.



Aaron also worked on my bike on Sunday, but to be honest, I'm not 100% sure of everything he did. Mostly, I think, he removed stuff -- like the chain.



These are the two old seats, along with the new, prettier seat. It's still not the baby blue banana seat -- ala the bike from my childhood -- but it'll do. Maybe Aaron will let me have tassles on the handlebars? And a bell!



And here's how the bike stands now. At least it's back standing, right? The benefit to having a bike like this is when you can't get the drain plug off the regular way, you can lay the bike down and jimmy it off that way. Sammie is not the gentle sort; she likes it rough. Hopefully, I won't be too rough with her, though!