have polycystic kidney disease or PKD. Had a kidney removed 3 weeks ago and now on dialysis...

 

Why the forum can't handle my most inner thoughts sometimes...

Geeze Jack. Sorry to read that. Wishing you the best, friend. 

Trying  to move around and do light things.Doctor says  I need  6 weeks this stomach  muscles to heal correctly. 

1 hour ago, BillyJack said:

I need  6 weeks this stomach  muscles to heal correctly. 

Take it easy then by all means.  The work will be there when you get better.

Sorry to hear this Jack. Take care of yourself.

As of today we think I will file for disabilty. I'm have trouble with getting dizzy the day after dialysis.  Had to work around saws when your trying to keep yourself upright....

Good plan, wishing you the best.

Above all, stay safe. And, wishing you the best.

i have found over the last few years that my focus isn't the same. Projects in my head aren't getting built.A major decline in performance in the last 5 years. Still able to create things at my 8 hour job just less and less in my shop.

 

I made 3 walnut blanks 2x12x8 ft long  for a snap back table years ago and there still sitting.

poker table blanks i finally gave away because i didn't see completing them..

 

Edited October 9, 20196 yr by BillyJack

Getting older just sucks some days.  

 

Some beautiful work you have shown.   Now the upside is you can pass some of that knowledge and skill here.  When one door closes in our lives the Lord opens another.  One need only walk through the door to find what the next room looks like.

 

 

I tell you what you can spend a lifetime taking orders and building the things your payed to make but until it comes from your head its really never yours. I've known a lot of cabinet makers over the years that have some really nice pieces the have built, but its  never theres.

 

A simple thought becomes a piece of furniture and it can make you or break you.

Bench WAS cleaned off....until I did an inventory...

Hmmm, I see shelves, a frame for a door, a top and bottom shelf....add these into a 4/4 x 6 x 6' Ash plank I still have upstairs.....may have enough to build a cabinet to house all of my DVDs? 

We'll see...

 

That old, HUGE, gas meter that hung above the tool chest of drawers....is now gone...replaced by a brand new outside gas meter!    Lots more room to stash things over there...

2 minutes ago, steven newman said:

may have enough to build a cabinet to house all of my DVDs? 

I think I still have some popcorn, @Gene Howe probably still has some booze left from last time.  

 

Shall we "stay tuned"  or will this be a film at 11??

Cabinet for dvd's. I was sorting dvd's and cd's one day when the son in law said "we use a stick now"  Guess I'm old now...

I got a 301 sony dvd player I guess I don't need anymore....

I usually watch my DVDs on my computer, with the headphones...so I can turn the volume to "12" if I want.....drowns out loud GrandBRATS that way...

 

maybe by this weekend, I can start up the Project...no rush. 

Here are some walnut banks I glued up the shuffleboard a couple years ago. Spend a lot of time keeping them flat in an acclimated garage.... Already glued up the 4x4 walnut legs as well.

Edited October 11, 20196 yr by BillyJack

This is a piece I finished for my niece's son. Baseball display.

Well...this is stuck to my bench...does that count?

Maybe?