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Well all the suitcases (hers) are unpacked, laundry done, dog washed and the yard mowed.

Gonna try to cut back some mulberry branches that have started shading the garden and dispose of them at the borough landfill. Lots of little errands to complete after last weeks "vacation".

Mitersaw station "dust hood" progress today. I ended up adding thickness to the side panels by doubling the 1/2 plywood on the top. Thankfully I wanted to decrease the height so I just glued on my cutoff. I did set the added piece forward so another plywood cross piece would fit into the back. Also added a cross piece at the bottom.

Struggled with getting everything aligned to screw together (I think I need to go to a cabinet building class!), but persistence and a willingness to accept "that's really close" worked out in the end. I still plan to add some walnut trim like I did with other parts of the miter station. Current status:

I'm working on making a Tachi Ganna. It's a Japanese Scraping Plane. They look like this but mine is a little different.

At the moment I'm making the plane blade. It's turning out well but tough work. I'm in the flattening process.

Edited 12 hours ago12 hr by MrRick

12 hours ago, lew said:

Well all the suitcases (hers) are unpacked, laundry done, dog washed and the yard mowed.

Gonna try to cut back some mulberry branches that have started shading the garden and dispose of them at the borough landfill. Lots of little errands to complete after last weeks "vacation".

No place like home!

Refusing to give up is a great thing to have!

What PT this morning then had to go to the cardiologist. He says I’m gonna make it this afternoon. Finished putting the power cable in for the electric fence and finished filling out the garden. But still have to raise the rows for the garden tomorrow and maybe then some planting. got a bit of mowing to do my son‘s gonna help on that tomorrow and we’ll see what happens.

Going to make it sounds like a pretty good diagnosis to me.

19 hours ago, HandyDan said:

Lately it seems like everyday is a Monday.