Life Imitates Art

After a quick doodle to decide what sort of frame we wanted, we began
foraging around for wood. We were pleased to discover that I already
had some long, pre-stained pieces of wood hiding in my garage. This
was especially convenient as we didn't have enough paint for the size
frame we were hoping to make.

We then set about measuring and marking the wood for cutting. I began
sawing with a hand saw and almost immediately got annoyed - this was
going to take a lot of cutting. This called for power tools. A
couple minutes later, I returned with a jigsaw I'd forgotten I owned
and sawing began in earnest. Lacking any sort of cutting rigs, we
placed one end of the wood on a chair which Beverly sat on to keep it
in place while I sawed the other end without a guide in mid-air. This
made Beverly giggle and squirm for some reason.

And then we laid all the pieces for our frame out and discovered we'd
gotten the angles all a little off. So we carefully re-measured and
cut again. The second time things mostly fit, so we secured all the
corners with some scrap wood.

Finally, Beverly and I brushed off the sawdust, got dolled up a bit,
and wandered the neighborhood until we found a suitably picturesque
time-space distortion for our photograph.