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Very moving always! Makes me think of my Dad 21 year retired USAF. I miss him!!

Still too wet around here to do anything outside, so I'm in the shop working on my serpentine drawer sideboard. I have concluded I will never build another serpentine drawer anything. I also will never build another piece where I do the drawers first, much easier the other way around.

40 minutes ago, Fred W. Hargis Jr said:

Still too wet around here to do anything outside

Same here, Fred! Almost 4" of rain in the past week. I guess we are no longer in a drought situation. Will have to hire a flock of sheep to get the grass cut back far enough to find the mower but the farmer's corn fields are loving it.

47 minutes ago, Fred W. Hargis Jr said:

I have concluded I will never build another serpentine drawer anything. I also will never build another piece where I do the drawers first, much easier the other way around.

Fred, you are doing the hard part first. I have confidence in you. Looking forward in seeing your progress. Danl

A happy Memorial Day to everyone! Its a bittersweet day for so many, and a day to remember the luxury of service being voluntary thanks to the sacrifices of so many before us.

This week I am on to the next step in the big scary project. So far things are looking better than they might on this, so I think I will be able to come up with a fix. The problem, as it is so often, is dry rot behind the leaky stucco. I can tell that either this place was not inspected or if it was the inspector was phoning it in. I suspect it was the former, that is sometimes the case out here. I would really like to get this wrapped up in June, because July gets very busy at work, and the interview I had on Friday went very well.

Follow up interviews with some of the site staff there to follow (again via zoom) next week or first week in June. I've worked for that outfit before, and I'm already very familiar with about half their sites, so they thought we could dispense with the usual site visit portion and just talk to site staff virtually. I was looking forward to the site visit days, but really I so much to do this summer and not a lot of time to do it, that I can't argue against a 2 hour zoom meeting vs about 4 days if I showed up in person.

5 minutes ago, JWD said:

interview I had on Friday went very well.

Good luck on the follow ups!!