Good Monday Morning!

Good Monday morning Patriot Woodworkers! What did you get done over the weekend, and what have you planned for the week ahead! Inquiring minds want to know. Please tell us what's happening in your shops, your life, and any events going on with you. Thank you for being here folks!

 

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Featured Image of the Week

British Army on the Western Front, 1914-1918
British soldiers working with the new saw mill and cutting the first log. Amiens-Albert road, November 1916.

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Attribution: John Warwick Brooke [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Monday..shop is closed.   Brakes need replace this afternoon.   Snow flurries going on....

Got a bunch of resaw  work done yesterday.....Clean up still going on. 

 

Used to be a place in Grayling, MI  called "Spike's Keg' of nails"     Even the building' s sign was in the shape  of a Keg.   A was the only one of the three bars in town I never went into.....( that I remember, anyway..)  Spent many a week on the shores of Lake Margarethe, MI.

 

 

Hope to make it home in time to get into shop this afternoon. Going into sawdust withdrawal.

Potty training is pretty much consuming every waking minute. 

Did get to the shop yesterday only to have a router bit loosen and ruin some cuts. Need to figure how to salvage the pieces.

working on another cup pot of coffee...

EDIT Note: Internet is back, allowing me to upload a couple of photos.

 

I got hardware into the bins in the hardware cabinet. I will wait on labels till I see how things work.

 

 

For my new work bench, i got the feet and rails cut, planed, split mortises cut and glued up. I have leg parts cut and planed ready to glue them together. Not sure how much shop time this week, but definitely hit it hard next weekend

 

 

Edited April 9, 20188 yr by Chips N Dust
Internet Back Working

Monday was consumed with dismantling a walnut dining table. Got a few nice pieces. Today will see them ripped, planed and sanded. Some of them will make the bottom to the rifle box. The rest will become various other boxes. 

Seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. Hope it's not a train. Soon, the shop will be organized exclusively for efficient box making. NO MORE FURNITURE! Nothing bigger than a bread box. It's time to switch gears. 

You mentioned having to go every minute..  I have this stent the doc installed March 14 between my kidney and my bladder to keep the tube from growing together while the repairs are healing and it will stay in there till May 22 and all day long I'm either going towards the bathroom or returning from it... Since the weather is not cooperating staying inside with a cup of coffee is probably partly to blame but I'm afraid to venture many minutes away from the bathroom... But like my wife said a few minutes ago,,, I bet its better than having a bag hanging on your leg all the time....... yes I agree!!!!       I did have a bag hanging for a couple of days after I left the hospital.  Lot of excitement..

@Smallpatch, I know where every bush is on our property and, how long it takes me to get to one.  

Bushes save water.

Still have a bit of yard clean-up to do.

Hope you and the family had an enjoyable week of Spring vacation @John Morris

 

Friday had lunch with my brother, stopped by a couple Flea Markets & H4H Restore...slim pickings; spent a grand total of $1.39 w/tax. Did pick up a few items at H-F...had a gift card from Christmas I planned to use until I stumbled upon one in my billfold. I have no idea how long it had been there...turns out it still had $25 on it so Christmas gift card for another time. Later in the evening oldest grandson's Pine Wood Derby race (results below). SA watching my oldest grand-daughter transformed from the little girl she'll always be to a young lady going to her Junior Prom. 

 

Coming week attractions: Beside normal duties, finish tax returns, youngest grand-daughter choral concert & choir contest TU/SA; oldest grand-daughter tennis meets TU/WE/TH, youngest grandson (he'll be four) Birthday TH, step-father to eye doc TH; might possibly get some outside work done a couple days????

 

 

The batteries were the "freebie." Have to reload all those free flashlights.                                                          He had a 1st, Two 2nds & a 4th in the heats. OA 2nd place by 0.039 seconds. He was

The digital scales I bought a couple of weeks ago for the pinewood cars                                                                the only car to have a sub 2 second time though. His mom's car, well it was consistent.

                                                                                                                                                                                                Finished 4th in all four heats...there's always next year.

                                                

 

Good showing, Dave. Nice Trophy. Bet everyone had fun.

Don't know how that pic of Herbs latest foray to HF got in there, though. 

KUDOS to your grandson...

Go Harbor Freight!!!

I can never get out of there for less than $100.

Herb

13 minutes ago, Dadio said:

Go Harbor Freight!!!

I can never get out of there for less than $100.

Herb

My mistake. The items in that pic probably don't reach your threshold.

3 hours ago, Gene Howe said:

Nice Trophy. Bet everyone had fun.

Well the kids all seemed too...long evening though. Far too many people in much too small of an area...

I stood for over two hours except during the intermission...went out to my truck to warm up; turned the seat heat on to soothe my back.

1 hour ago, Dadio said:

I can never get out of there for less than $100.

My time was limited,; got most on my list for that trip but I do like to spread it out too since I can only redeem one freebie per visit.

53 minutes ago, Gene Howe said:

My mistake. The items in that pic probably don't reach your threshold.

Missed the mark a bit...~$72 with coupons and tax and before gift card...I usually milk it out knowing I'm going to be in town about every 10 days or so...lets me use more "free" coupons that way.

1 hour ago, Dadio said:

Go Harbor Freight!!!

I can never get out of there for less than $100.

Herb

Just like Costco

1 hour ago, Chips N Dust said:

Just like Costco

Yeah, only multiply it by 3 or 4.  But, we only get there ever 60 days or so.

@Grandpadave52 Great job on the pinewood derby!!

They are always fun to watch.

Edited April 10, 20188 yr by LarryS