Happy Friday Folks! 

 

Here "Two Weeks From Anywhere" I started the first mowing of the season yesterday, got about halfway done.

Will be trying to get the other half done today before the next three days of forecast for our area.

If I don't get it done, I'm sure it will still be there next Wednesday. 

 

 That leaves the BIG question, "What's on Your Weekend Agenda"? 

Nothing new, big, or exciting in my shop. Just piddling around, cleaning work areas and putting tools away. Hope to get back to the scroll saw soon in earnest. But, first I need to prepare some stock to cut. Lotta scrap to use up. Mostly walnut. 

Nothing planned.  It may be a wet one so the shop is the best dry place I can think to spend it.

MIGHT get a bit of shoptime in?    We'll see..

On and off showers for the next several days, maybe will have an opportunity to get to  the lathe.

Like Larry, had hoped to finish mowing today but light rain during the night and most of this morning coupled with no sunshine has stopped that for the weekend.

 

A few domestic duties to help out the Mrs. today. Schedule conflicts tomorrow requires me to transport oldest grandson to his two AAU basketball games in the morning. Sunday, regular church responsibilities. Hoping to get some garage time in during the off-peak demands.

 

A positive for the end of another month, we gained another 1:18 of daylight.

Cuttin grass, planted seed a month ago, trying to regrow what our German Shepard turned into a mud pit with her constant running around in the backyard, so we cordoned off the damaged area, stuck her in a patio area where she can't access the grass, and the seed has sprung and we have a ton of grass after all those rains!

 

We are heading out the door to meet our daughter for lunch, she is transferring jobs and this is her last day, so we are buying her lunch. Son is at Jury Duty, and our youngest girl still in Ft. Stewart GA, worked hard and got her NCO stripes, she's officially SGT Morris! E-5.

Family is doing well, and I may have time in the shop this weekend, things just keep popping up, soon I am going to have to put a moratorium on "things popping up" and just tell the world, I can't, so I can get back into the shop and do the fun stuff in life.

 

Off on a mission trip to eastern KY to do some repair from storm damage.

Just turning in shop till I get distracted and go off on a tangent to rearrange something so (I think) it will be more efficient.  

6 hours ago, Grandpadave52 said:

Like Larry, had hoped to finish mowing today

 

 Got most of it done, I've had enough. Think I might have jarred a  KS loose. 

oh boy, ole gal brought in the big guns, oldest daughter, daughters number 1, 3  and 4 are gonna commandeer the ole guy and assist in inventorying the 40 ft container that contains all the biz tools and small misc. materials, lol, gonna be kinda like watching the monkey and the foot ball thingy.  how she managed to get no 1 daughter to fly from Atlanta to do this is beyond me, so glad to see her, as she travels the world in her job and we rarely see her, any howz, think i'll sooth the savage beasts in the am with fresh donuts, who can resist a chocolate iced donut with sprinkles, huh, c'amon fess up, you all know you='d like one.  i'm a glazed man me self or a just plain cake to dunk in the java.

happy friday, welded up a half dozen steel target stands, complete, and primed them, so yeehaw, got something to shoot it 

where does the time go, i looked up and its 4pm, feels like i just got started. 

Rj in aZ

@John Morriswishing your daughter well with her new job and congrats to your youngest daughter on her promotion.

Always hated jury duty myself.

3 hours ago, Larry Buskirk said:

 

 Got most of it done, I've had enough. Think I might have jarred a  KS loose. 

Started again at 5P, still wet but no chance in drying. Got everything mowed, put up and in the door at 9:15P.

 

I'm 99% sure I passed another KS...rough going out there for a couple hours. Feel much better now.

3 hours ago, knockonit said:

who can resist a chocolate iced donut with sprinkles, huh, c'amon fess up, you all know you='d like one

Guilty as charged although I can do without the sprinkles...too messy and it ruins the coffee when you dunk 'em.

8 hours ago, Grandpadave52 said:

I'm 99% sure I passed another KS...rough going out there for a couple hours. Feel much better now.

 

Between the two yards I think somebody plowed them and I went crossways over the plowing. 

@John Morris - Congrats to the young ones' successes!  Fort Stewart is just outside of Savannah, I hope that Sgt Morris is able to enjoy some of that area.  Historic Savannah is beautiful. 

 

I've a busy weekend.  Mowed the lawn yesterday; while rain threatened, it held off.  Oh yeah, had a doc appt. yesterday morning - 2nd of the week - both visits were a-ok

After the lawn cleanup I got the upper cabinets face frames attached.  On to doors this morning.  Later today our daughter will be coming in for a visit.  I will have to quit early today as daughter, my sister & bil and I are going out for birthday supper and a play.  Maybe by the end of the weekend I will have the doors made, fitted and in the paint booth.  Or maybe not...

12 hours ago, Al B said:

@John Morriswishing your daughter well with her new job and congrats to your youngest daughter on her promotion.

Always hated jury duty myself.

thanks Al! Our son was on standby all week long till Friday, he showed up his last day and nothing happened, so his commitment is satisfied.

 

40 minutes ago, Cal said:

@John Morris - Congrats to the young ones' successes!  Fort Stewart is just outside of Savannah, I hope that Sgt Morris is able to enjoy some of that area.  Historic Savannah is beautiful. 

 

Cal, she has, and enjoyed it a ton. She's been there for a year and a half I think, going on two years anyway, and she's had a chance to to get to know Savannah pretty good. She liked it a ton. We were going to fly down and meet her in a few weeks and visit Savannah, but things popped up, I had to take some time off from work and now I don't have the hours to cover our planned vacation in mid May, I'm trying to get mama to go down without me, she can at least go and hang out with our daughter and have some fun but she won't.

I was hoping to see Savannah myself, but there is always a next time!

30 minutes ago, Cal said:

@John Morris - Congrats to the young ones' successes!  Fort Stewart is just outside of Savannah, I hope that Sgt Morris is able to enjoy some of that area.  Historic Savannah is beautiful. 

 

I've a busy weekend.  Mowed the lawn yesterday; while rain threatened, it held off.  Oh yeah, had a doc appt. yesterday morning - 2nd of the week - both visits were a-ok

After the lawn cleanup I got the upper cabinets face frames attached.  On to doors this morning.  Later today our daughter will be coming in for a visit.  I will have to quit early today as daughter, my sister & bil and I are going out for birthday supper and a play.  Maybe by the end of the weekend I will have the doors made, fitted and in the paint booth.  Or maybe not...

Cal, We had the distinct pleasure of visiting Savanna for 4 days in '08. It is indeed beautiful. We set up camp on Tybee. Took a tour of the old city in a horse drawn carriage. The guide/driver was very knowledgeable, humorous and quite interesting. For instance, we learned that Spanish moss isn't Spanish and it ain't moss. During the civil war, the locals advised the occupying Union troops to use Spanish moss as mattress material. Seems that the 'moss' harbors Chiggers and other mites. The Rebs didn't want those northern invaders to rest easy.

23 hours ago, John Morris said:

I was hoping to see Savannah myself, but there is always a next time!

 

I do hope you get a chance to visit while your daughter is there, and just up the road is Charleston, SC.  Both places offer beautiful and historic areas - right up your alley!

 

 

23 hours ago, Gene Howe said:

Took a tour of the old city in a horse drawn carriage. The guide/driver was very knowledgeable, humorous and quite interesting.

 

The guides do make it interesting   From knowing a couple, all stories and "facts" are to be taken with a grain of salt.  I've known them to embellish the story and sort of make up facts on the spot! They want to sell to the audience and they are very good at it...