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Doctor's visit this morning...stitches removed from left thumb. Right thumb? dressings came off, took almost 10 minutes.....MA looked at the thumb a bit, went back out and brought the Surgeon back in...if the left thumb looks like a hot dog...right thumb looks like an over cooked Bratwurst...twice the diameter as the left...bright red, and has "seepage"along one side...

Have a custom fitted brace/splint on the right hand...I also get to change out the new dressing 3 times a day. and soak the thumb for 10 minutes each time..

Been to 3rd floor, been to 2nd floor...was then sent to the 1st floor to see a friendly Vampire...as I may have to go back in and have them open the thumb up, and clean things up...

Waiting around on phone calls....stay tuned...

12 minutes ago, steven newman said:

Doctor's visit this morning

VA Steve? Or regular doc?

regular hand surgeon

Prologue: Accomplished all my Friday tasks. Good weekend for both grandsons and their respective basketball teams. Oldest JV team won both Friday and Saturday night. He had two of his best games ever. Youngest team won two games yesterday; still undefeated for this season.

Chapter 1: After Friday nights late game, we did have to make a last call grocery pick-up from Walmart for biscuits, milk and sausage. I tell you this because it's an important element to the following saga. Since we were already out at 11P, took the Mrs. Jeep through the touchless car wash and filled it with gas as an extra bonus to her Valentines weekend. Thought I'd just throw that it to fill this chapter.

Chapter 2: Sunday morning didn't start out well; Mrs. woke me up at 2:57A announcing the power had just gone off; after 3 phone attempts, the automated power outage finally woke up the on-call, real person, outage desk; about 1:15 later, first service truck traveled up/down our road scanning the lines (and house windows) with their 5M candle power spot lights; second truck arrived about 20-30 minutes later rescanning the windows lines with their anti-aircraft searchlights.

Chapter 3: With my newly burned retinas and the aid of approximately 100M candle power flood lights, I was able to follow the low drooping power lines from the pole in our yard to the power pole just to the east of property line. This led to the discovery of what I later confirmed as the cross bar normally affixed to the top of the power pole hanging off the side of the power pole. This observation was confirmed by the glow at the top of the pole ablaze with the occasional burst of sparks and debris being blown by the wind.

Chapter 4: My highly developed analytical skills immediately concluded this is probably not good and power may be out for a while. Some of you may recall a similar story back in November when the power pole just to the west of our property line suffered a similar fate but I digress.

Chapter 5: So, since the Mrs. had responsibility to provide the biscuits and sausage gravy for breakfast prior to our Sunday school hour, we dressed, grabbed from the refrigerator the already made gravy in the oil tanker size crock pot and the canned biscuits, then headed to the church about 12 miles away. Crock pot plugged in reheating the sausage gravy, biscuits made, we returned home arriving about 5:30A. Living rural, when electricity ceases, so do other modern 20th century conveniences such as lights, heat, an oven or stove, oh, and water because no well pump. While we do possess a backup generator, it has to be wheeled in place, fueled up and hooked to the transfer switch.

Chapter 6: By a miraculous series of events, and likely stored in some log manual from November, the Co-Op utility did restore power by ~6A albeit temporarily much like November. After a 15 minute power (no pun intended) nap, time to get up, shower, few chores, then off to church again. We left about 8:10A. The power company had returned to the scene of carnage in the daylight, bringing reinforcements, more trucks and a new power pole as well as closing our road just past the house and our driveway. They already were in progress of replacing the flamed out pole.

Chapter 7: To bring yet another tale of rural wilderness woe to an end, everyone that wanted biscuits and gravy had their fill. As always when the Mrs. provides them, there's seldom any leftovers. We arrived back home about 12:30P to a new power pole in place. We did lose electricity again about 4:45P only long enough to again require resetting of all digital clocks, the TV and dish converter. I assume this was the final switch back to normal power line distribution. This too occurred last November.

Epilogue: Other than this saga, just your basic, normal mundane weekend. Oldest grandson has an away game tomorrow evening. Donut what else I might consider doing this week. Now that 98.999% of the snow is gone, another bumper crop of sticks has emerged. However, navigating the harvester in the mud fields will be a challenge. I have today off since it Presidents Day. Here's wishing y'all a week of productivity, peace, safety, ample supply of sausage gravy and biscuits with uninterrupted electrical service.

Edited February 16Feb 16 by Grandpadave52

26 minutes ago, Grandpadave52 said:

Other than this saga, just your basic, normal mundane weekend

We should be able to use more than one stock emoji reaction response for just these situations.

It's still better than life in the city (and anywhere in NY or Kali), Dave.

9 minutes ago, Fred W. Hargis Jr said:

It's still better than life in the city (and anywhere in NY or Kali), Dave.

Amen to that!

I mentioned last Monday that I needed to finish insulating my garage/shop door. It didn't start out well but I finally got-er-done.

You see the 3 silver panels on the right were done with some 30 year old fiberglass panels I found in my shed. Big mistake! Even though I showered immediately after cutting and installing those I still itched for 3 days. So I went on YouTube and found a video of someone using these 4x8 Owens Corning Styrofoam sheets. The video said to use a knife or saw to cut the Styrofoam but after trying that on one panel I ended up with beads of Styrofoam all over the place. I thought, "If I could somehow heat the knife" then I remembered this flat tip that came with my sawdering iron.

You have heard the saying, "It sliced through that like a hot knife through butter!"..........BINGO!!!

If I cut the panel a little too wide for the pocket on the garage door I just slid that sawdering iron tip between the pocket and the Styrofoam and it would pop right into place.

I know this isn't woodworking but I thought someone might benefit from the idea of using a sawdering iron for cutting Styrofoam.

45 minutes ago, Bubba said:

I mentioned last Monday that I needed to finish insulating my garage/shop door. It didn't start out well but I finally got-er-done.

That looks really nice Bubba. Well done.

Edited February 16Feb 16 by Grandpadave52

Had some relaxing fun over the weekend using up scraps and challenging myself with hand tools.

Square box, maple and sapele. Everything from resawing to mitres and the dado’s and rabbets for the inset top and bottom were done with hand tools.

I can see that I need to expand my collection of hand planes a bit because using a router plane for some of that was a bit furstrating.

A good no. 45 would have helped a lot on this project.

A fellow Woodturner got the opportunity to get free walnut lumber and we along with another Woodturner picked up a load this afternoon. Wife said she wanted a table with river in it and found two perfectly suited boards.

FREE walnut???? YOU really suck!

19 hours ago, StaticLV2 said:

Square box, maple and sapele. Everything from resawing to mitres and the dado’s and rabbets for the inset top and bottom were done with hand tools.

Really Nice!!

Awesome score @Gerald !

March Issue of the Gristmill arrived today's mail box...along with the usual bills...

going back to see the Doctors tomorrow...hand has been soaked 2 times today....it is a 2 person job...looks worst each time...Grand son dropped off 3 tools he found..

Disston thumbhole

Other 2 are from W. Germany Fulton/ Estes No. 5 and a Witherby of W. Germany cross cut saw that used "Swedish Steel" for it's plate...$70 for the saw on fleabay?

All 3 need a good clean up...but....so does my right thumb...

2 minutes ago, steven newman said:

March Issue of the Gristmill arrived today's mail box

Thanks for the headsup on that Steve!

1 hour ago, steven newman said:

March Issue of the Gristmill arrived today's mail box...along with the usual bills.

Same here...to both. Take care of that thumb. Patience Mr. Bandit; patience not patient.😉

Nice score on the "vintage" tools.

Edited February 18Feb 18 by Grandpadave52

I'm planning on buying some of blue Styrofoam 4x8' sheets to insulate my garage. It's suppose to be pretty good.