Good Monday morning!

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"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." ~ Benjamin Franklin

 

Started the finishing process on my grandson's coffee table. It was almost comical, I had applied a coat of dye and had nothing but headaches applying it. Then decided to seal the dye with a coat of shellac...sprayed on. It's been several years since I used my spray setup and it took almost 2 hours to get thing going, after which it took maybe 15 minutes to spray the shellac. But it was good to retrace the steps in using it; I'm hoping to start building a lot more stuff over the upcoming year and i hope to spray most of it.

Monday?

Late night adventures last night...the 2 flea bags found a possum in the back yard....they had fun..the Possum did not...

 

Next Project?    Well there ARE a pair of 1 x 10 x 5' Ash planks..that came from a 10' long board...that could use a project made from them....

 

West Liberty, OH. is having their Annual Labor Day get together....aka Tractor Fest...next weekend...trying to save up a bit of cash for that..

Got a couple of miniature vases turned for Mimi. 

 

My brother had another back surgery. I'm doing research on making him a cane. Not sure of the best way to attach the handle (Derby style) to the shaft. I'll be using Tiger maple for the handle and hard maple for the shaft. Maybe a thin piece of walnut for an accent piece between the two.  Open for ideas.

Another Monday back to the daily grind of messin with phone scammers.  Already broke 2 microsoft scam call center numbers all thanks to an ai Bot that I've created.  LOL nothin but fun there.  Wood turning side learning how to sharpen gouges I'm going to at some point attempt to learn how to do re shaping the gouges.  Good thing I got cheap bowl gouges to learn on.  So if I mess up on those its not a big deal.

Monday 

I'll have to get back to you on that. 

hoping to start work on a QSWO box for a friends's later ashes.

Edited August 26, 20241 yr by DAB

just look at that replaced corbel on the front porch.  replaced a few years ago actually.

Hard to focus on anything with the beautiful rainbow in the back ground.

5 minutes ago, Fred W. Hargis Jr said:

Hard to focus on anything with the beautiful rainbow in the back ground.

hey, that's pretty nice too!!!!

Got back late last night from SWAT woodturning symposium in Waco. Now feel like I missed a week of sleep somewhere. Had a great time and spent lots of money. Would have spent more if I had it. Trying to wake myself up and get into the shop.

2 hours ago, DAB said:

just look at that replaced corbel on the front porch.  replaced a few years ago actually.

 

Hey I remember that project! Nice work Dab!

 

 

yup, it's been a few years, 2+ to be exact.

 

actually, an excuse for showing off the rainbow......but you knew that 

Edited August 26, 20241 yr by DAB

1 minute ago, DAB said:

actually, an excuse for showing off the rainbow......but you knew that 

Ya the rainbow aint half bad either.

Another weekend in the can(ner) Mrs and I picked another 4g of green beans. Also 4g of tomatoes. She and daughter spent Saturday canning. I spent the day doing some cleaning and organizing.

 

Yesterday after church took Mrs out to lunch in Boilertown. Following lunch she wanted to go to the shoe store. At her urging, she said I should go shopping at Harbor Freight (go H-F) conveniently located next door to the shoe store while she shopped. What can you do? Happy wife...well you know. Late PM, attended youngest grandson's soccer match. They won 7-5. He scored 2 goals.

 

More garage cleaning, organizing, lawn equipment maintenance. Hope to finally get the woodchipper completed. Technically I guess that's woodworking. Haircut Wednesday, errands, then Wednesday night, 8th grade football if the weather permits.

Boss has decided that the "Monday Errands" will be run..Tuesday....

 

She also wants new doors (4)on the Bathroom Linen Closet, as the old ones no longer stay shut...open funny...and are painted...white.. ( White Linen?)...so, have to draw up plans to replace those....and MAYBE match the rest of the stuff?

Stay tuned...

I am currently 1/2 way through 5 days with no supervision.

Last Saturday, I dropped my wife off at the airport and returned my grandson to his parents.

Sunday: The hardest thing I did was move a case of beer from the basement to the refrigerator in the barn.

Monday: Shopped for Steak and other essentials.

Today: Refinishing a pair of Wine Barrel Adirondack chairs that have been on MY 'To-Do List' for three years.

Edited August 27, 20241 yr by frenchwwr

1 hour ago, frenchwwr said:

I am currently 1/2 way through 5 days with no supervision.

 

 

Some folks have all the luck!

Currently coping with....

 

 

Called mortgage company to inquire about a $11.20 charge listed on Bill as unknown.

 

To get anywhere I had to pay it. Then request copy of unknown charge.  An hour later bank acct shows refund.  Bank sent text msg.  Unable to determine unknown charge.

 

Really??  Well I got my money back but ya gotta wonder.