Well what do you know, we made it to another Friday!

After two days that made it into the 60's we're back to winter for the time being.

I did manage to get a little bit done on my computer case build after putting another motor on the old table saw.

Couldn't figure out why it kept tripping the thermal breaker until the hornets/wasps came crawling out of it.

Didn't get any photos due to misplacing my camera when I moved stuff around. Don't have a clue where the heck I put it.

So until I find the camera,

What's on Your Weekend Agenda?

I have a sideboard project that has serpentine drawers. I was finally able to get some MDF this past week and have started making a form for the bent lamination drawer fronts. I'm still a little apprehensive about doing this but thought I'd give it a try.

Headed out in a bit for a haircut. That'll take all of 15-20 minutes. Afterwards, several errands while in the "big city" then back to our county seat to pick up a couple Rx's.

Tonight, oldest grandson has an away JV basketball game. It's about 1-1/2 hour drive so it'll be a late night. They won Tuesday's night game; 3 game winning streak and 4 of last five.

Donut expect to accomplish much tomorrow; church Sunday, assuming of course no power outages or other fiascos emerge beyond the 1" of snow forecast.

Well...

As it always happens, earlier this week I realized I was down to one rolling pin. I did a workshop for the local turning club a year or so ago and created a bunch of blanks as examples. Gathered up all the blanks, finished making the required inserts and started the cutting gluing process.

Then...

Phone text chimes. Next door neighbor lady- "Lilly (the daughter) has a question, when would it suit to have her show you what she wants to have made"? Lilly is directing her first stage play... @kmealy

Yesterday...

Answering machine blinking. "Hi, Lew! We have a 1960's reel to reel tape deck that quit working. Would you check it out for us? It was my Dad's and really don't want to throw it away."

20 minutes ago...

Noticed missed cell phone call. "Hey Lew, my wireless router is really old and I want it replace. I'll get one and when you have time could you set it up for me?"

Just sitting here waiting for the fourth shoe to drop......

Had the last PT for shoulder yesterday. Some better but not there yet, now to see how I do on my own.

Hope to finish a rolling stand for sons game chest . Started reroute of DC hose into dust closet and finish today. Hoping this improves performance. Continue removing sod where lean to will go for mower. Putting sod on slope in front of shop and other places with wash beginning. May get started on shelves for closets today. Woodturners club meeting tomorrow.

@lew You may be just too good for your own sake

1 minute ago, Gerald said:

@lew You may be just too good for your own sake

Thanks, but "good" doesn't come to mind. More like a pushover...

9 minutes ago, lew said:

Thanks, but "good" doesn't come to mind. More like a pushover...

What was that saying...."No good deed goes unpunished".

49 minutes ago, Fred W. Hargis Jr said:

What was that saying...."No good deed goes unpunished"

I guess the beatings will continue until morale improves

Well Eileen is off to to stay with her grandbabies, I just got my computer upgraded, and it's snowing.

I need to come up with a design for a Cat Hammock.

No projects planned for the weekend but I do plan to do some "bench top tool tinkering".

Say that three times fast without studering. 😜

Building 10 bluebird houses for one of the city parks.

2 hours ago, Ron Dudelston said:

Building 10 bluebird houses for one of the city parks.

Just built my first. Could you please post a picture? Here’s mine.Thanks.

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Cool build @JimM !

Jim, it is an Audubon design for drawing bluebirds. The side pivots on two stainless screws at the top If you look you can see part of my hardwood stash in my garage.

On 2/20/2026 at 11:36 AM, lew said:

Just sitting here waiting for the fourth shoe to drop.....

Well since you're offering, I still have an old HP desktop, WIN-XP, 386, Pentium 1 that could use a little upgrading. End of February is OK.

3 hours ago, Grandpadave52 said:

Well since you're offering, I still have an old HP desktop, WIN-XP, 386, Pentium 1 that could use a little upgrading. End of February is OK.

You're the fifth shoe! Someone already butted in line...

I'm wrapping up some picture framing. I went to the local art store to get some mat board. They had black, white, and two pieces of navy blue (both damaged). Heck, I've got about 30 colors in my inventory but none in the right color or size for what I need. I may have to find a new source and hope it's not just the one on the north side of Columbus. That same company took over the store near UC that used to have a decent selection. Will see next time I'm in the neighborhood.

Busy but good weekend and as a bonus got to spend some time in the shop. Been on a bit of an organizing kick lately and the missus is asking to move things off the counter so I have been experimenting with making an in-drawer knife block which is actually quite a bit trickier than expected.

Here is the latest prototype. The blanks are arranged on sliding dovetails for spacing and it looks like this will work out quite nicely.

Now that the concept is proven time to make it pretty.

7 hours ago, StaticLV2 said:

Here is the latest prototype. The blanks are arranged on sliding dovetails for spacing and it looks like this will work out quite nicely.

Now that the concept is proven time to make it pretty

Pretty clever, functional and good looking design Michael. Mrs. should be quite pleased with this.