Friday again folks! 

 

Been trying to play catch-up to the yard, it's still winning.

That's around helping Bruce with building maintenance and improvements.

We're in the process of adding two more Cupolas with furnace blowers to help rid the attics of heat buildup. (Big roofs=Big heat buildup)

 

That's about it here,

What's on Your Weekend Agenda?

 

We've been invited to a wedding, later this month- the continuance of the emergency bridal shower gift festivities. So... for some reason, unknown to men, there has to be a completely new wardrobe. Hours spent traveling to all the malls, in a 100 mile radius, scoping out the "perfect" matching attire. Not too glittery as to overshadow the brides mother but nice enough to wear "if we ever go on a cruise and eat at the captain's table"- which never happened to me on the aircraft carrier (Captain's Mast- different story). Point here is, I doubt I will be doing much work in the shop in the foreseeable future.

With the break we have in the weather, I'm attempting to catch up in the yard. I only have a few days since I'll be back in the medical whirligig we seem to spend all our time in anymore.

Working on walls in shop at Ranch. Got all the studs up this morning except around the door. They are putting the garage door in this afternoon. Will beworking on anchoring walls to concrete.Now contractor says mid September for move in so I guess I will have shop setup by then. Have to meet electrician tomorrow to be sure we get everything for shop and he will work on that Wednesday. Will be calling the insulation guy this week.

Going to Ohio State Fair Saturday to do judging for state woodworking 4-H projects.  Always a lot of very inspiring ones come in.  This year I'm doing 14+ age, third year projects.   Thankfully, the weather has turned very nice.  Trying to decide what "fried" delicacy I'll spring for.  Nope, head for the ice cream at the dairy barn.

My daughter and granddaughter and I  have rented a cabin in East Texas. This was one of my late wife's favorite get aways spots and since her birthday is Monday we are here to celebrate her.

It was nice this evening sitting on the porch and watching the lightning show in the distance.

I hope you all or yall have a good weekend.

Thankful for the cool spell after three+ weeks of living in a blast furnace. Temperature today dropped like a commuter on the interstate just spied a trooper behind a billboard.

 

Began D1 of the mowathon today. Saturday AM, a few errands; PM will be D2 of the mowathon. Church services Sunday AM; Annual back to school Family Fun night at the church in the evening. I'll be inspecting for rogue donuts.

I need to catch up on house cleaning, even by my bachelor standards it's getting messy!  Been busy with work all week, started with a trip over to Tucson last Sunday to get a big part modified in a vertical turret lathe.  I did sneak a bit of woodworking in there at work, making a framework to hold the part on a pallet at enough of an angle that it could be carried in a pickup truck.

 

Today I'm fixing an old carving for a neighbor - a poorly supported shelf fell on it and broke a few parts.  Hoping for an easy and mostly invisible fix with some hide glue.

 

I'm hoping to also get some time in working on a batch of grips - paying work, so DUL, but something I need to get after.

 

Last Saturday had some fun in it though, I helped a guy work on the old Allis-Chalmers road grader we have for neighborhood road maintenance.  The steering is very sloppy, and we needed to replace one of the cute little U-joints it has in the linkage between the steering gearbox and steering wheel.  Next up we need to adjust the box, that is going to be much more involved as it is in a really tight spot and probably hasn't been removed in the 70 year life of this machine!

I've been so busy that I haven't even had time to lurk, much less post. Yard work for me right now is just a quick mow down the weeds and get back to the shop. back to back shows had eaten up 2/3rds of our inventory. added to replacing that, back in March we signed on to make some wooden signs for a local brewery as a way to fill some time in our shop. Those went from making 50, to now making 500 and on. so While I'd love to sit here, It's get my A... back to work time!!!

 

Well, until a stack of lumber arrives in the shop....I am doing as little as I can get away with....and even less IF they let me...Have a couple more planes to sharpen up..that's about it..for now..

On 8/1/2025 at 7:32 PM, kmealy said:

Going to Ohio State Fair Saturday to do judging for state woodworking 4-H projects.  Always a lot of very inspiring ones come in.  This year I'm doing 14+ age, third year projects.   Thankfully, the weather has turned very nice.  Trying to decide what "fried" delicacy I'll spring for.  Nope, head for the ice cream at the dairy barn.

Had some good entries in the class that I judged.

 

The fair was a zoo.  Parking lot filled at 2 pm Friday and 1:40 Saturday.  It was tough to walk thru there that was filled with people moving and people just standing, strollers, mobility carts, people on their phones, people waiting in line for food.  When I left a little after 5:30, there were at least 100 people waiting in line in one of the four or so gates.  It was hard to get out of the parking lot as there was a steady stream of pedestrians and drivers that didn't know where they were going.  The interstate was backed up exiting from 17th street all the way back to downtown.   And the options of fried food did not disappoint.

 

 

 

A few of the projects

     

@kmealy
 

Some amazing work from those talented young folks!

1 hour ago, lew said:

@kmealy
 

Some amazing work from those talented young folks!

I like the hutch with the flag but someone defiled it with that OSU logo 😃

16 minutes ago, Ron Dudelston said:

I like the hutch with the flag but someone defiled it with that OSU logo 😃

That happens a lot around here. (insert laughing emoji, if we had one).

Edited August 3, 2025Aug 3 by Fred W. Hargis Jr

Thought that walnut case looked familiar. One I made for a friend-

1 hour ago, Fred W. Hargis Jr said:

(insert laughing emoji, if we had one).

Think we should send John a hint?  (Insert head-scratch emoji here.)

My daughter who lives in Michigan is visiting. She decided she wants an old entertainment center that I built several years ago to take back to Michigan. Looks like it will fit into the SUV so it will be going home with her. Still in great condition so I hope she will enjoy it. Sue has a few things that I made for her, notably a jewelry box, a couple of  bandsaw boxes and a hutch. I hope Bill, my son -in-law can handle it. I can help with the heavy looking on.

Edited August 3, 2025Aug 3 by Al B