(Sorry for the absence. I'm sure many of you were waiting in anticipation... very quietly)
Anne and I came down from Utica (or Yucktica as Anne's friend Joe would say it) for Memorial Day weekend for a variety of reasons. On Friday, we signed our lease for our new apartment in Goshen. Yay! Today Anne and I are attending the wedding of a neighbor of hers. It's actually being held at the same church where we are getting married next April. It'll be good to see how another wedding looks in the same space. And we'll probably have a good time too :-) And finally tomorrow my family is throwing a small Memorial Day party with family and local friends. So yay to that too.
But all of this is irrelevant and has nothing to do with my post. One thing not on the agenda that happened this weekend however is the entire point of this post.
This month, the town offers one of those spring clean-up programs. You put your junk out on the curb and the town comes and takes it (and then probably eBays it for a profit). Well my brother treats this time like a free yard sale. He's out like a vulture in the night scouring for some random coolness on someone's driveway. Wednesday night before I came down Steve came across the top to a foosball table! All the players and goals were intact! It was just missing legs. Steve threw (he probably did not throw, but place) it into his new Scion xA and sped off (he probably did speed off).
Thursday night we went and got 1 1/2" x 1 1/2" beams at Lowes and some hardware at Wal-Mart. Steve went to try and find a ball for the foosball table. (Is that called a foos? Or foose maybe? Anyway...) He started at Dick's Sporting Goods. They told him that they didn't have any right now because "they were out of season." Out of season?! I didn't know there was a right and wrong time to play foosball! It seems to me that foosball is always in season. When it's nice out, you put it on the back patio (or deck) so that you can enjoy the sun. When it's crappy out (or all the time in Rochester) you keep it in the den where you can stay warm and dry. Bam! In season! No "out of season." Steve went to Modell's where they didn't have them either.
Then Steve went back to Wal-Mart. He walked in and asked someone where he could find foosballs. The guy paused at first. Steve elaborated. The guy, who now claimed to know what Steve was talking about, brought him back to sporting goods (a good start) and proceeded to hand him a canister of tennis balls. Steve was no longer amused. He didn't find any there, although I'd speculate that they may indeed be at Wal-Mart. He even went back to the house where he found the foosball table in hopes that there might be a ball on the ground.
Regardless, we went to work on our foos-less foosball table. We attached the legs using some wood screws and L-brackets as needed. After testing the height, I told him it was too tall by quite a bit. He didn't want it too low so we only cut off a few inches. We then attached small floor coasters that we hope will be able to raise and lower to level the table as desired. Finally we applied a coat of textured green spray paint so the legs would sort of match the table top.
Once dry, we leveled the table, which is actually quite level on it's own. We want to seal the paint with some sort of sealant because it's water soluable, but aside from that it's finished. We were quite proud of our work at 4:30 am on Friday morning. Mom wasn't too pleased that we were banging and drilling till then in the garage. But oh well. All totalled $25 in parts plus our labor.
Not bad for a $25 foosball-less foosball table. I'll post pictures when available.
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