Halloween Folks.

 

Not doing much here this weekend, not looking forward to the time change.

 

What's on Your Weekend Agenda?

Finally got all my tools put away from last  Saturdays EWT demo.

 

Started a donation for the Turners Warehouse and Easy Wood Tools fund raising efforts for the Saint Jude Children's Hospital-

https://www.turnerswarehouse.com/pages/ornamentcharityauction.

Hope some of our turners will consider doing the same.

Not much going on here. May get out to the shop and take a stab at a pet urn. Halloween makes me miss the "good ol' days" more than any time of the year. You know: when we trick or treated on Halloween night instead of Sunday afternnon, started at dusk and walked until we couldn't stand up, we didn't have parents escorting us because there was no need, and our candy didn't need to be checked for tampering.  Oops, sorry for the nostalgia. 

12 minutes ago, Fred W. Hargis Jr said:

Not much going on here. May get out to the shop and take a stab at a pet urn. Halloween makes me miss the "good ol' days" more than any time of the year. You know: when we trick or treated on Halloween night instead of Sunday afternnon, started at dusk and walked until we couldn't stand up, we didn't have parents escorting us because there was no need, and our candy didn't need to be checked for tampering.  Oops, sorry for the nostalgia. 

 

...and there wasn't a constant stream of cars from who knows where bussing kids into your neighborhood. I saw people, on local social media, asking which locations had the best candy/treats.

Plan on getting in shop Saturday. Have few small things to get finished plus some serious clean up.

Finish hanging OSB in my shop (renovation/repair situation) in areas where minisplit heads will be placed.

After all the wind filled days this past week including today, time for yet another round of the pick up sticks game ahead of the final round of mowing next week. Other outside projects need attention ahead of what will be coming.

 

I haven't decided yet how I'll use that whole hour the gubmint is giving me; thinking about camping overnight to be first in line. That reminds me, need to pick up extra donuts...gotta go...

I lived so long in Arizona that I kind of like the change back to standard time.  DST just feels right to me, and I'm usually so brain dead after working all day that I don't much care if the evening is light or dark.  On the other hand, I'm getting to the age where I no longer care much about which way the issue goes so long as they finally retire the time change one way or another.  Never seen a better example than that of the adage "None of us is as dumb as all of us!"

 

My plan for this weekend is to make some progress on the backlog of grips waiting on my bench - just getting to the hard part, pattern routing a bunch of end grain.  Yuck.  But usually the anticipation is worse than the actual job of it.  Also considering making a few cutting boards for friends.  The last couple were very popular.

 

Another chore to tackle, making ledger board mounts for an eventual porch on the south wall of my house.  It's taken me a couple years to work out the details, but I now have a solid plan and just need to get around to cutting and welding.....

1 hour ago, JWD said:

 DST just feels right to me, and I'm usually so brain dead after working all day that I don't much care if the evening is light or dark.  On the other hand, I'm getting to the age where I no longer care much about which way the issue goes so long as they finally retire the time change one way or another.  Never seen a better example than that of the adage "None of us is as dumb as all of us!"

 

 

 

 

There's a great many of us that agree with what you said....unfortunately none of us are elected to a position to change it.

30 minutes ago, Fred W. Hargis Jr said:

 

 

There's a great many of us that agree with what you said....unfortunately none of us are elected to a position to change it.

 

Yeah, that is a true thing.  It remains amazing to me some of the dumb stuff that gets passed and nothing ever seems to get repealed.

 

I just realized I messed up my abbreviation - I meant MST - mountain standard time as opposed to mountain daylight time.  I don't like acronyms and abbreviations much, too much duplication in what they might mean - living so long in AZ, and never changing off standard, to me MST was always Mystery Science Theater 😄

 

2 minutes ago, JWD said:

to me MST was always Mystery Science Theater 😄

Mike, Tom and Crow- I miss them

1 minute ago, lew said:

Mike, Tom and Crow- I miss them

They made bad movies watchable, sometimes even pleasant.  Couple of my favorites were San Francisco International and Space Mutiny.

 

My ex and I still trade MST3K quotes.  She had never seen it before she met me in the 90's, now she remains a die hard fan.  She's found various streaming sources over the years, but youtube is the only one I remember that has some.  I remember there was a reboot also, it was on Netflix for a while.

1 hour ago, JWD said:

They made bad movies watchable, sometimes even pleasant.  Couple of my favorites were San Francisco International and Space Mutiny.

 

My ex and I still trade MST3K quotes.  She had never seen it before she met me in the 90's, now she remains a die hard fan.  She's found various streaming sources over the years, but youtube is the only one I remember that has some.  I remember there was a reboot also, it was on Netflix for a while.

We have streaming service called "Tubi". A lot of them are on there including some newer ones from RiffTrax. If you have Tubi, try and find RiffTrax version of the "Brain That Wouldn't Die"!

We're on the western edge of Eastern time.  There used to be a guy on my team who worked in Boston and when he visited, he said it was much lighter here later in the evening.  (Him being on the eastern edge).   Indiana used to be a bit different, except for up near Chicago, that was on central time. I think they might not have gone to daylight saving time because in the summer they used to say "fast time or slow time."   Anyway, one daughter lives in the western and northern edge of Michigan.  All of Michigan is on Eastern time, even though she is north of Green Bay, WI, that's on central time.   And Kentucky is split, part on eastern, part on central.

 

Anyway, I set some clocks back already and I put up the  bird feeder that I made on Thursday.  Hoping the squirrels don't find it.   

 

Thursday, I rebuild a mirror frame, about 3'x4' for the furniture bank.  It had those crazy pressed in fasteners in the corners that don't hold well and the glass was hot glued in and  held with a few staples.  I'll go back  next week and reinsert the glass and use my framing point driver.  For those unfamiliar with a point driver, it drives flat pieces, either longer ones for picture framing or shorter (glazing) ones for windows.  It works kind of like a stapler, but the points go out parallel to the base and not perpendicular like staples.

 

 

On 10/31/2025 at 11:07 AM, BB1 said:

Finish hanging OSB in my shop (renovation/repair situation) in areas where minisplit heads will be placed.

OSB in place.🙂 Hoped to get some paint on but the temperature was a bit low and supposed to drop over night so thought I should wait. Sort of ironic that I want to paint before the minisplit is installed BUT I need the room warmer to paint. 🙄

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3 hours ago, BB1 said:

OSB in place.🙂 Hoped to get some paint on but the temperature was a bit low and supposed to drop over night so thought I should wait. Sort of ironic that I want to paint before the minisplit is installed BUT I need the room warmer to paint. 🙄

 

Get  a radiator heater,  set it at max and just let it run.  That size shop will take a bit to warm the room.  Will at least keep it above 55F but probably take a day to get it there. I use one in my finishing room all winter.  Set on low with medium temp it holds that 10x12 room to 60F.  If I go high with max temp it was 90F.