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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!!

Had to clean up a bit in the shop, today..

From this..

to..

this. Also to get rid of..

so..

Now I have a place to work on a Project...while the Dungeon Creek dries out...

Having a bit of shortness of breath and chest pressure so in ER.looks like an overnight stay to see cardiologist tomorrow.

6 hours ago, Fred W. Hargis Jr said:

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.

Can’t wait to see it finished.

Best of luck to you, hope it turns out to be nothing serious.

2 hours ago, Gerald said:

looks like an overnight stay to see cardiologist tomorrow.

Sending prayers, @Gerald

Hope you feel better by morning Gerald.

No projects in or on the house so with the weather improving this week it's time to get into what I use to call a shop & start cleaning up.

Our new fridge did not come with an egg holder, I didn't notice but Patti did. Were we live we buy eggs by the dozen but when buying an egg holder they come in counts of 14, 18, 21 & 30, why, I have no idea.

This weekend I decided my armadillo I made a couple of months ago was getting lonesome on the wall all by himself so I decided on a theme for the wall.

"Deep in the heart of Texas".

I spliced together several pieces of aluminum tubing that came from the frame of an old cot for the flag pole. Many of the flags I saw online had a silver ball at the top of the pole so I dug up an old trailer hitch ball from under one of my workbenches and the Yellow Rose of Texas I made for my late wife several years ago.

This is a work in progress.

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Finally back home from hospital stay. Will be getting a monitor in a few days to wear for 2 weeks.

I was just wondering how things went Gerald, glad your home.....but sympathy for having to wear the monitor. I wore one for 24 hrs and that was enough of a pain I would like to not do it again.

On 5/25/2026 at 2:40 PM, Gerald said:

Having a bit of shortness of breath and chest pressure so in ER.looks like an overnight stay to see cardiologist tomorrow.

I guess we're in the same club. Mon I was weed eating and tilling the garden (small Mantis style tiller) when I suddenly couldn't breath through the respirator. shut everything down and got the respirator off and could breath again (respirator valve stuck shut). My chest hurt so I put everything away, chest continued to hurt;

finally home today after an angiogram and two stents, Dr's say I am darn lucky, two arteries 70% blocked. I hadn't had a heart attack yet, but it was only a matter of time.

Oh boy, now for the battle with insurance and the VA for the anti-cholesterol drug.

I'd rather be good than bad, and

lucky than good

This seems to be a trend all of a sudden, took my wife in on Monday for chest pain, yep second heartattack, transferred to Nebraska Heart Hospital Monday evening, heart catherisation, four blocks, one over 90%, Doc wants open heart surgery to prevent use of blood thinners, would be second one, wife said NO put in stents been a wild ride since Monday. Anyway put in two yesterday, two more to go after her kidneys recover enough to handle the stress. So wait two weeks and repeat. Sorry for the long post but only way I know to explain. Also GOOD LUCK to everyone else going through this I know it ain't fun.