I was so proud before when I was talking about trimming the canopy using only power tools.  “No backbreaking hand sanding for this tool junky” you’d hear me say.  harrumph.  Not any more.  It turns out that hand sanding is the order of the day when you’re doing the final shaping of the window openings.  Even doing it by hand, I don’t think i got it exactly perfect.  After awhile though, if you keep sanding, you really will screw it up.  so that’s nice, because eventually the sanding has to be over! 

The little tally marks that are written in red sharpie on the side of the fuse next to the step represent how many times we’ve barked our shins on the step walking by.  The rule is that you have to put a tally mark if it hurts.  A light bump doesn’t count.  Notice that Bethany’s only got one, while I’m racking em up. 

Once I got the canopy to where the quality control department (bethany) found it acceptable, it was time to put the canopy on the fuse and drill some holes.  We needed a way to keep upward pressure on the inside of the canopy at the rear, so i cut a cardboard tube that the foam insulation came wrapped around to the appropriate height and wedged it in there.  Worked good.  Then it’s drill drill drill.  cleco, cleco, cleco.  good times.