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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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My favorite PBS series Crafts in America, did it again, a wonderful episode on Timber Framing, see the trailer below.

 

Gerald David, Timber Framing Instructor at North House Folk School, on his Timber Framing Class. Preview from the HOME episode. HOME visits craft artists whose environments are filled with meaning and metaphor. Featuring Biskakone Greg Johnson, North House Folk School, Syd Carpenter, Wharton Esherick, Sim Van der Ryn, and Helen Drutt English.

 

 

 Monday  Thanks for the warning. 

Short week at the J.O.B.  Office is closed Thursday and Friday and I'm taking a week of vacation next week.  Weather is supposed to be pretty here after turkey day according to the weatherman who speaks with a forked tongue.  Much overdue shop time is on the way.  

 

Happy Thanksgiving everyone.  The Patriot Woodworker is one of my many blessings.  What are you thankful for this year?

 

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@John Morris, thanks for another interesting and informative Monday post.

My mesquite rounds table tops are coming along nicely. The punkiness has all been routed out on the final two. All sanded to 100 grit and today, they get a seal coat of water based poly. Hopefully, tomorrow I can pour the colored resin. Gotta get the shop temp up to around 70° first, though. More propane.

Turkey day will be at our son and DIL's place. The same group that was here yesterday for our sons' Bday bash will all be there, too. 

I'm very thankful for all the great folks here on the PWW site. And, thankful for our continued good health and, for our wonderful families. 

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We have a larger than usual crowd coming Thursday, so the cooking chores will be top on the list for the week.

2 hours ago, Fred W. Hargis Jr said:

We have a larger than usual crowd coming Thursday, so the cooking chores will be top on the list for the week.

Hope you get some help with the meal from your guests.

Mimi has this phobia about having a clean house (she's married to a slob). So with expected guests on Thursday, you can guess what we are doing this week!

Been working on filling my store back up for a show on the 3rd. Today going to pickup 170 landscape block. Don't think my truck can handle so also taking son's truck as this is to build a firepit at his place. All this and me with the crude to boot but things happen.

Whew...grueling swim invitational weekend over and I never got wet. Lots of walking, step climbing, sitting and so on took its toll. Overall a great experience though. Met a few of the team parents plus entire men and women's team at the meal. Great group of kids. Two of the young men are from Texas. Long way to NE, Indiana. Granddaughter is ecstatic to be home for a week.

 

Mrs. Grandpa is on vacation this week so I'm under tight reins. Thanksgiving will be at daughter/SIL house. 24lb turkey is in our fridge now for slow defrost. Oldest granddaughter will be home later this week.

 

Will this be the week the Buick gets is new, GM factory re-manufactured engine? Will this be the week the Buick finally comes home?  Stay tuned for answers to these questions and other dark secrets in the next episode of "Buick Enclave, Where Art Thou?" 

 

8 hours ago, forty_caliber said:

What are you thankful for this year?

 

Much better health than a year ago after back surgery. Thankful for my immediate family and my extended family here at TPW. I'm thankful to live in this country. We've got our cousin Eddys and all, but a great place to call home. Most importantly, I'm thankful for our men and women located around the globe committed to seeing our family and yours has a Thanksgiving meal even though they are separated from their own. 

We’re still in there, throwing punches, refusing to give up, so that’s what I’m grateful for.

Busy day at work, no time for anything but wrenches moving bolts and such.  Have Thursday through Sunday off, two days paid even!  Can't remember last time I had holidays off.  Maybe before I started working as a teenager?  Always worked so iothers could have off.  This place, NOPE, everybody gets off, period.  Linda nice to be treated like a human being verses a piece of meat.

 

 

Another crazy week at work punctuated by moments of shop time where I can snag them.

5 hours ago, StaticLV2 said:

Another crazy week at work punctuated by moments of shop time where I can snag them.

Noticed you been a little sparse around here Static, good too see you again, hey don't let work interfere with life ok!

I enjoyed my job and I think I got more done in the shop before retirement. But then, I was a good bit younger.

In the shop working on gifts.  Seem to be ahead this year but we'll see.  Crunch time isn't here yet.

Was way too busy running around, yesterday, to notice it was a Monday....

 

Today's "Project"?    Zatarain's Dirty Rice, with Mild Italian Sausage, and diced Yellow Onions.....

 

Need a Photo Shoot in a little bit...slipper caddy is done....

no excuse, just lazy. 

The first resin pour....color....

 Is done and curing

 So, no wood working for 48 hours. 

Made 8 more of the Kissmass trees. Delivered the last one on Sunday.