Friday again folks! 

Other than trying to catch up to the yard not a whole lot happening here. (It's outrunning me again)

 

What's on Your Weekend Agenda? 

 

We've gotten some rain in 5 out of the last 7 days, so I've a lawn to mow today myself.  Pretty danged patchy after the drought we went through during June to mid July, but what survived is needing a trim.  After a morning walk and dropping off a picture frame I "completed" to have a mirror cut, that will be my afternoon.  That and sweltering in the steamy humidity. 

For the weekend, some vinyl work to prep for all these mirrors being cut.  And continue making travel plans.  We've made hotel reservations at the various stops we'll be making.  Next up is making the travel reservations and ordering up various transit passes for places we've never been too.  That'll be a stroke of business if we can get through all of this over the weekend.

S-I-L is using my tractor and post hole digger today to do some damage to his son's yard, so I'm setting that up at the moment. I think for me it will be a laid back weekend with some shop time spent on my grandson's coffee table, might even start the matching end table.

3 hours ago, Larry Buskirk said:

Friday again folks! 

Are you sure? IIRC we just had a Friday a week ago.

 We had some new sidewalks installed in June and decided to plant a cottage garden on the hillside. Several layers of grass killer later and we are ready to start removing the turf. Dropped the push mower to the ground and bagged as much as I could, now it's hand tools from here. A company will come in when we are done with a load of mushroom soil and rototiller it in then we can start planting. We have been buying perennials the past couple months & have been working to keep them alive in pots. Several hundred, I may have over-ordered, tulips & daffodils bulbs should start arriving late next month. Not expecting a lot next spring but it's a little less grass I'll have to cut.

 

 

    

 

Another busy and relatively productive week. Mrs. even gave me an "atta-boy" for progress on my honey-do list. Undecided if that is a good thing or not.

 

Spent about 7 hours yesterday guiding the string trimmer around the property; feeling the burn today and not from the sun. Mowing marathon commences this afternoon if the grass will dry out some. Mowing will likely bleed over into tomorrow. Couple more honey-do projects outstanding to complete before I get a star next to my name. Church services/ responsibilities Sunday.

 

 Edit add: been texting this AM with @Gunny. As always, very busy, but he has been in rare form this week and especially today.

 

Still trying to figure out how to eat around the center of a donut before it disappears. Very perplexing. Anyone with experience and success please weigh in. I assume the center goes wherever pencils go?

Edited July 26, 20241 yr by Grandpadave52

Errands today. Rolling pin workshop tomorrow-2 sessions/18 people total.

In office working today, tomorrow temps to drop around 97 degrees, that'll allow me to re-route some sprinkler heads, right now the water is getting on a new Iron fence I installed, it's black, and the water is very hard and leaves white calcified deposits all over my new black fence.

 

He's my efforts from last weekend! Took all day last Saturday and half of Sunday. The concrete was uneven so I had to shim the posts with washers. The post for the hinge gate side and the latch side where a PITA to get to line up, a combination of all sorts of different thickness washers were used, it got to be a head scratcher, not to mention it was 108 degrees and my brain was confused and fried from the heat, but me and my son, and our dog got it done!

 

 

 

 

 

Got a package to mail today. Working on a hose reel for my son and undecided to do with 2x4 or use hardwood of which I have plenty. Parts for the reel are cut and lid out. Using 1 inch black pipe for the crank and reel axel . I have some old big wheel Yazoo mower wheels, yes really old, maybe go back40 years.

Building an actual bench for my grinder the vari grind system didn't work too well for me.  So I returned it and re ordered the robert sorby system and get that figured out.  So hopefully it works a lot better than the other one.  But now that I got rid of the table saw I never use I have more space for other stuff.  I find that I use chop or mitersaws much more often than I would  a table saw.  Plus I rarely used the thing.  SO it went bye bye.

3 hours ago, DuckSoup said:

decided to plant a cottage garden

 

Going with natives ourselves. Bees/Butterflys sure like the Joe-Pye Weed, Swamp, and Common Milkweeds.

Haven't bought very many plants, I let most of the yard go wild this year so I could move the Wildflowers as we identified them.

Yards only knee to hip deep in the areas I haven't moved the Wildflowers from yet.

Plan is to turn about half (Or more) of the 1.74 acres back to a Wildflower Prairie. 

3 hours ago, DuckSoup said:

it's a little less grass I'll have to cut.

3 hours ago, Grandpadave52 said:

Are you sure? IIRC we just had a Friday a week ago.

 Don't ask me, I just go by what day my phone says it is. 

There was cussing to be done in the shop, TODAY....besides hauling a way too full hamper to the "Laundry Room"...there was a glue up to do...

First make one of these for both ends...

Then away we go..

Lots of clamps, too..

 

Can never have too many clamps, right?

 

And..why is it, that glue dries faster on fingers, than it does in wood?

Week 3 at the theater set shop.  I think I might get assigned (or volunteer) to build some picnic tables.   I drew up some plans as the construction manager  only had a rough drawing of the top and no ideas on the legs and base.

Daughter has just asked for a project for Xmas gift.  I think I can do that.

 

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BQNFRNYG

12 hours ago, kmealy said:

Daughter has just asked for a project for Xmas gift.  I think I can do that.

 

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BQNFRNYG?ref=cm_sw_r_cso_fm_apin_dp_XP97ZRYR9PFKYYNWCWQ9&ref_=cm_sw_r_cso_fm_apin_dp_XP97ZRYR9PFKYYNWCWQ9&social_share=cm_sw_r_cso_fm_apin_dp_XP97ZRYR9PFKYYNWCWQ9&starsLeft=1&skipTwisterOG=2&fbclid=IwY2xjawERC4xleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHXUi9SmfkcyUjVhC_SGujNUNxIkU8GbVuqMFeNEQHVPGTi0bOGbFSdHb9Q_aem_4D0aBB0_QOiuVRd4fw4zSw&th=1

Just need to copy/paste this part of the link.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BQNFRNYG?th=1

Edited July 27, 20241 yr by Larry Buskirk

1 minute ago, Larry Buskirk said:

Just need to copy/paste this part of the link.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BQNFRNYG?

Thanks Larry, i fixed it for Keith, you can also omit the question mark.

Family picnic this weekend.  Get to see all the kids and their kids.  Weather is supposed to be very nice too.

20 hours ago, Larry Buskirk said:

Going with natives ourselves. Bees/Butterflys sure like the Joe-Pye Weed, Swamp, and Common Milkweeds.

 To be sure I'm no gardener, I'm the laborer on this project. When I went to the garden center to pick out some perennials, because that is what I was told we were planting, I pick (1) colorful flowers that I liked and (2) the ones that the bees were on. Patti's Dad's backyard is about 50'w x 100'd and the only walkways are the width of his push mower, we can take everything else we need for our garden & that would give the thinning his needs. 

Today I have been an electrician not a woodworker. Early this morning I went to Home Depot to get stuff that I need for three electrical upgrades I have been putting off for ever. This morning after I got home from HD I replaced a 40 year old halogen patio light and dimmer for same. Since I replaced the halogen light with an LED light of course I had to replace the dimmer with and LED compatible one. Planned obsolescence, it's the American way. 

Some time ago I built a table on casters for my HF table saw and mounted a HF shop vac and a cyclone dust separator on the bottom shelf of the table. I also installed a power strip and a light switch on the side of the table so I could power the shop van and table saw on/off simultaneously or at the same time.  A few days ago I purchased a couple of nifty LED lights with a magnetic base and adjustable neck to put direct light on the work surface of my table saw and band saw. Since the power strip for the shop vac/table saw was controlled by the switch I couldn't turn the NIFTY light on without turning the shop vac on. SOOO this afternoon I replaced the single light switch with a combo switch/receptacle so I had an outlet with constant power for the light.

The third electrical project is yet to come at a later date. 

I'm worn out, I'm going to have to rest tomorrow.

 

 

Edited July 27, 20241 yr by Bubba
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