My Guts Are Here!

They're here, they're here!

My guts have been finished and they are finally here.

Me & Mom have been waiting patiently for today.

 

This is Jane, she made them for me.

 

This is Sarah and she approves of them!

 

Here is Mom, she's a happy camper.

 

Here is a visitor I had today while waiting for my guts to get here.

Her name is Rosie.

 

And her husband, RobRoy.

He makes a lot of noise so when Mom & Dad take me on an adventure

I hope they leave him at home so we can sleep in.

 

Last week when Mom was out at the lake, Windy gave her this darling little pin.

Mom LOVES it.

 

She loves it so much that she got a tee shirt that says the same thing!!

Wrapper Work

I watched Mom giving my wrapper a bath in the afternoon sunshine today. It was awful dirty and it took her a long time to get it clean; I know its not all going to be spotless but it sure looks a lot nicer now.

Mom was talking to Dad about my up eyes, they need new lids. Mom said she will glue on new screen and maybe use magnets for the plastic eye lids.

Hhhmmm...

I wonder how that would work.

 

Gathering

Mom has been gathering stuff for inside me.

 

She got me a big red comforter to wrap us all up in

 

and a rug to keep my floor warm,

 

Dishes,

 silver plastic ware that looks like the real thing,  

 

 

 cutesy kitchen towels 

and bowls.

 

There are teensy pans and a tiny teapot.

 

Mom has to keep it all small, you see. So it doesn't look too big for me.

 

Ha, I rhymed!

 

There are solar lights to show me the way and lamps to keep us together.

 

Mom still wants to do lots more shopping for me and she wants to do more of it at Ikea.

 

That store is so much fun!

 

 

Back Eyes

Dad worked on my back eyes and they are bright & shiny now. Here's what he did.

 

These are what I had all my life.

 

The new back eyes are LED. Dad wanted to make them fit me, not ADD them to me.

So he took them apart.

 

He took their eye lids off and took out their guts.

 

After grinding some extra stuff off them he said they were good.

 

This is that my guts used to look like.

 

And my eye lids; they were old and hazy.

 

Dad buffed them all up shiny!

 

Then he used this sticky stuff to put my new eye guts in the old eye lids.

 

LOOK, aren't they nice and brilliant now?!?!

 

Dad shined up these ones too, can you see a difference here between the left and right?

 

They area all bright and shiny now but without the blue car hooking up to me Mom can't get a picture. Dang.

 

In other news, Jane sent Mom a message, she's working on my guts and it all seems to be going well. No pictures yet.

Shiny Kickers

Mom heard that you can shine up rusty chrome with coke and foil so she gathered all the stuff she needed and put dad to work.

 

He was pretty skeptical as he poured Diet Coke on the hubcap.

 

 

He started rubbing furiously but no Genie appeared.

 

Its getting shinier.

 

WOW.

 

This is a HUGE difference. This hack really does work!

 

One side still has some pitted area that just would not work but overall its about 75% nicer than it was to begin with.

 

Flat Diet Coke, foil and elbow grease is all it took.

Dad Shined My Lid

Dad and Mom were hoping my lid would be a bold beautiful shiny red when it was done

(its not done)

but it is sun burnt and has pitting in the red paint.

 

Here's my lid when Mom washed it, the black isn't coming off. Dad says that's OK because no one will see it anyway.

 

Here it is before Dad waxed & buffed it.

 

And here it is all finished and as shiny as it's going to be.

Not bad if I do say so myself.

 

 

One spot looks like I had a crack.

 

So today Mom got a bunch of new stainless steel screws, nuts, bolts and washers. I'm going to be sparkly and bright.

 

These are my old screws and washers that held on the lid holder on-ers inside my lid.

 

 Mom took them off and Dad waxed & buffed my lid.

Here are the new screws, washers and nuts.



 

 And here they are in my lid, just not tightened down.

 

 

 Then Mom climbed up inside me and cleaned all the gunk off my roof from under my lid. Mom is not going to replace all these screws that are left up here, they are doing fine as they are right now.

 

 

There is still lots to do, lots and lots and I'm going to be feeling very good pretty soon.

Plans

Mom wants to take me on a 'venture next week so she and Dad are making tentative plans for helping me get ready.

 

Here is Moms list for this next week:

 

1. One thing at a time.

2. Clean my vinyl wrapper.

3. Fix my wrappers windows.

4. Go to the store and buy new nuts, bolts, washers & screws for my lid.

5. Put my wrapper back on me.

6. Put the screws and stuff IN my lid.

 

Then

 

7. Vacuum all my insides.

8. Photograph all my rotted wood pieces.

9. Remove my old insulation under my seats.

 

Not all this stuff will get done but if Mom works just a half hour each night then I will be fixed.

 

Dads list:

1. One thing at a time.

2. Finish brightening my back eyes.

3. Give me all new wires inside.

4. Give me LED side eyes.

 

Then

 

5. One piece at a time, replace my rotted wood.

6. Replace the old insulation with new insulation.

 

OK, that's enough plans for a week, lets see how much axually gets done.

 

Mom wants to go camping with Sarah at Manchester State Park.

I might not be done, in fact, it is highly unlikely but Mom really wants to take me for a 'venture.

That park is only ten miles from home but I don't know how far ten miles is so we could be going to China! I don't know where China is either.

 

June told Mom how we can fix my kicks, they have icky brown spots on them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkHyARsjNEg

Moms gonna try it soon.