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Prepping for a club workshop on Celtic Knot rolling pins. Long way to go but I got to stay in the basement where it was at least 30° cooler than outside!

 

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Pleasant weekend. Big gains Friday and Saturday cleaning, reorganizing and rediscovery in the garage. Took Sunday off after church services except for trip to daughter/SILs to water plants, cats, and reptiles, tending to our bird feeding stations and following an on-line auction close.

 

Mrs. is off work today since she had to work over the weekend; the task orders are still being issued; need to get the re-discovered "mini-tiller" running after ~5 years of hibernation then cultivating gardens, mowing will be a priority this week between promised rains; short trip to adjoining county seat to PU a few auction scores, on-going trying to get current here...oh and attending @steven newman joint rolling, 'er making classes.

 

PSA: bagels, although circular and open centered ARE NOT donuts no matter what your wife tells you.

4 hours ago, John Morris said:

The Patriot Woodworker 2024 Summer Fundraiser

It's live folks! If you play here, live here, have fun here, please consider helping us out and contribute to our coffers to help pay for the things that keep us live and up to date.

Thank you all for being here and making our community a pretty unique place to be

Thanks John for providing us a safe place to play and the opportunity to help keep it that way. Best site on the interweb!

Went to the furniture bank this morning to do some work, but it was not what I expected.  They are critically short of dressers, and they got a dozen or so dorm desks.  So we took them mostly apart, sawed off half of the top, patched  up, and voila, we have a small dresser.   Amazingly, one of the three or four types had mortise and tenon and lap joints.   And we got a whole box of pocket hole screws.

 

 

Spent a lot of time this weekend setting up the new to me laptop. Decided to put the heavy stuff .....music and pictures or at least most of them .....on an external drive.

 

Son and I went down to the Ranch to burn what we had in the pit and haul up more from the downed tree.

 

 

plus found some creatures 

 

 

Edited June 24, 20242 yr by Gerald

1 hour ago, Gerald said:

 

 

Spent a lot of time this weekend setting up the new to me laptop. Decided to put the heavy stuff .....music and pictures or at least most of them .....on an external drive.

 

Son and I went down to the Ranch to burn what we had in the pit and haul up more from the downed tree.

 

 

plus found some creatures 

 

 

Have not seen a stick bug in years.

No woodworking for me last weekend.  Spent Saturday resting up a bit - had a hernia fixed a couple weeks ago and the way they do it now works really well but tends to give you pulled tendons in the abdominal muscles, that's been the only thing bugging me past the first few days.  Today was the first day with no twinges at all so I think it's going well.

 

Felt pretty good Sunday so I went in to work to fix a quick problem that cropped up Saturday, then stopped at the ex's place and loaded this awful 300# massage chair in the pickup so she can pack it into a U-haul and take it to Reno.  It's long and complicated, but I'm storing stuff for her in the garage until she can get her place rented and all the stuff packed up.

 

Then installed a new kitchen faucet at my house.  Old one was an ergonomic nightmare and had started to leak at the swivel for an integral sprayer.  Water would dribble back down the hose and into the cabinet below.  Best part was I had no reservations about a real hack and slash approach to removal - that old one couldn't visit the dumpster quick enough for me so some hoses got cut to get them out of the way.  New one went in easily and is a really nice upgrade, I enjoyed doing the dishes last night!

 

I really need to get into the shop and knock out a couple side jobs soon.  I always seem to be behind on those.  Ought to stop accepting them I guess.

2 hours ago, JWD said:

No woodworking for me last weekend.  Spent Saturday resting up a bit - had a hernia fixed a couple weeks ago and the way they do it now works really well but tends to give you pulled tendons in the abdominal muscles, that's been the only thing bugging me past the first few days.  Today was the first day with no twinges at all so I think it's going well.

Hey JWD, aren't you supposed to rest that surgery for quite a bit? I remember I had a hernia surgery in the Army, they put me on barracks rest for two weeks solid, first week on my back, and second week light activity. But hey I was a kid, I think I left the barracks after two days because I got so bored. I was stationed in Panama, late 80's, all we had was Spanish tv, and Military News, and I found my way to the package store and had a good time with the brown bag contents I brought back to my room. A few drinks in the Spanish TV didn't seem all that bad. And my surgery didn't feel all that bad either.

5 minutes ago, John Morris said:

Hey JWD, aren't you supposed to rest that surgery for quite a bit? I remember I had a hernia surgery in the Army, they put me on barracks rest for two weeks solid, first week on my back, and second week light activity. But hey I was a kid, I think I left the barracks after two days because I got so bored. I was stationed in Panama, late 80's, all we had was Spanish tv, and Military News, and I found my way to the package store and had a good time with the brown bag contents I brought back to my room. A few drinks in the Spanish TV didn't seem all that bad. And my surgery didn't feel all that bad either.

 

Nah... these days it's laparoscopic and outpatient.  Three little incisions (maybe 3/4" each) and they inflate you with CO2 to get some working room.  They go inside the abdominal wall with robot arms through those little holes and put some kind of mesh over the hole in the abdominal wall from the inside.  The only scary part is they have to knock you out to the point that breathing stops and use a ventilator - those incisions are right up near the diaphragm so they can't have it moving around.  The inflation is the part that overstretched that tendon, the repair itself has given me no trouble at all.  Surgeon had a follow up appointment last Thursday, said I was good to go and the only restriction was that if it hurts to do something stop doing it

 

I probably wouldn't have gotten away with moving that chair if my ex had been around, she'd have made me go home and do it later.  But I got it on a good wheeled dolly and put some ramps down from the porch to the bed of the truck, then gravity did the work and I just had to control the route  Her new place is a second floor apartment, I feel for whoever she's going to hire to lug that thing up the stairs.

2 minutes ago, JWD said:

Nah... these days it's laparoscopic and outpatient.

That make total sense, had my gall bladder removed last April, I was up and about in a few days, 5 small incisions, filled me up with air so they could move the tools around my belly, I have 5 scars on my torso, looks like I was a gun fight! 

Glad it went well for ya, that stop breathing part sure would pucker me up for a few thoughts, sounds like you got through it with flying colors!

7 hours ago, kmealy said:

Went to the furniture bank this morning to do some work, but it was not what I expected.  They are critically short of dressers, and they got a dozen or so dorm desks.  So we took them mostly apart, sawed off half of the top, patched  up, and voila, we have a small dresser.   Amazingly, one of the three or four types had mortise and tenon and lap joints.   And we got a whole box of pocket hole screws.

7 hours ago, JWD said:

 

Nah... these days it's laparoscopic and outpatient.  Three little incisions (maybe 3/4" each) and they inflate you with CO2 to get some working room.  They go inside the abdominal wall with robot arms through those little holes and put some kind of mesh over the hole in the abdominal wall from the inside.

 I had that same procedure last fall and was amazed at how well it went, I was thinking at the time that if a surgery can be good this was it. I was told not to lift anything over 12# or so for a couple of weeks, but otherwise got the same advice you do...if it hurts don't do it. I went in at 6AM and came home at 2PM. I used some Tylenol for the pain the following day and I was over that as well.

17 hours ago, Grandpadave52 said:

cleaning, reorganizing and rediscovery in the garage.

Likely enough content for two seasons (26 episodes) of

 

Doc's Garage - Journey into the Past 

Like Dave, reorganizing and removing stuff. It'll take a while. So much crap. So little space. 

50 minutes ago, Gene Howe said:

Like Dave, reorganizing and removing stuff. It'll take a while. So much crap. So little space. 

 Seems to me that's pretty much the life of any hobbyist woodworker. All the above, the reorganizing, too much crap, too little space.

9 hours ago, JWD said:

Nah... these days it's laparoscopic and outpatient

 

1 hour ago, Fred W. Hargis Jr said:

I had that same procedure last fall and was amazed at how well it went, I was thinking at the time that if a surgery can be good this was it

Been putting one off for several months. Doc said OK unless it gets to really bothering you. Trying to hold off until late fall. Not fearful really even though the last surgery (back) didn't pan out so well. Just hoping to get caught up on things around here for a change.

53 minutes ago, Gene Howe said:

reorganizing and removing stuff

As learned from an acq. in Tasmania, A.B.C.   Always Be Consolidating

 

1 minute ago, Fred W. Hargis Jr said:

 the reorganizing, too much crap, too little space.

A while back I gifted an unused scroll saw. Amazing how its footprint was immediately populated with stuff.

 

Before my last delicate basement resaw job, I created more flat space. It's as worthwhile as any activity, I reckon.

14 hours ago, lew said:

Have not seen a stick bug in years.

Definitely their goal. 

 

My fav is how some owls seem to match the tree bark

2 hours ago, Fred W. Hargis Jr said:

 I had that same procedure last fall and was amazed at how well it went, I was thinking at the time that if a surgery can be good this was it. I was told not to lift anything over 12# or so for a couple of weeks, but otherwise got the same advice you do...if it hurts don't do it. I went in at 6AM and came home at 2PM. I used some Tylenol for the pain the following day and I was over that as well.

I was very impressed with the whole process.  They gave me 2 weeks worth of muscle relaxers for stuff like the ab muscles, and 4 of the industrial pills that I never used.  Didn't even need to tough it out to not use them, just not a lot of pain with this kind of surgery, over the counter stuff has handled what there was just fine.

 

42 minutes ago, Grandpadave52 said:

 

Been putting one off for several months. Doc said OK unless it gets to really bothering you. Trying to hold off until late fall. Not fearful really even though the last surgery (back) didn't pan out so well. Just hoping to get caught up on things around here for a change.

I was using a support belt I bought on Amazon for several months before the surgery.  That thing worked well enough that I could see how people used to just live with these before the surgery got so easy (I was a MASH watcher as a kid, and learned what a lot of stuff like hernias were early in life  ).  But mine was also a mild one, figured out what it was a day or two after it started to ache and it never got to the point where I couldn't tuck that bit of guts back in with a bit of a massage.  Probably wouldn't have figured it out were it not for my youthful TV habits