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A labor of love and necessity, it's a good video, I couldn't wait to share this one with y'all. 🙂

There is a section of the video where he talks about a post and beam kit, he was only comparing the costs of purchasing one, in relation to what he did by cutting his own trees and milling his own beams, the entire home is by his hand, from his property, but for the bottles, he and his wife went through recycle bins to acquire the bottles.

The homes wall construction is called "Cord Wood" built, a method used for centuries, instead of full logs for cabins, the small trees were cut into short lengths and used like stacked firewood and filling the gaps with mortar.

Just puttering around today

12 minutes ago, steven newman said:

Just puttering around today

Ya feeling a tad more spread out Steven? Like you can breath and turn around in your shop with a long board in your arms? 🙂

Spent a little time in the basement. Couple hours today helping one of Mimi's friend setup her new phone. Couple of appointments coming up.

This is "bulky trash" week for us. Get to load up all the old stuff that is too big for the regular trash collection and take it to a central collection point. I miss the old days when we set it out at the curb and all the curb shoppers would come and take it.

Well, even though the garden was a big disappointment this year I hate for the time I clean it out and get ready for winter; yet that's what I'm doing today. I've got the electric fence down and the sprinklers put away, I may till it later (or not, maybe later this week). I made some good progress on my serpentine drawer project over the weekend, most of the finishing is done (still need to do the table top) and then final assembly. This thing turned out to be quite heavy so before I get help to move it into the house Marie has to approve replacing the old one with this one.

My husband's second waving flag is completed and in place. He was able to put this one together from the "cutoffs" from the first flag (plus a few boards I had to cut given the leftover piece was lacking) and this morning we mounted it on our driveway gate. This one is much thinner and lighter than the first one so weight should not be an issue. Looks really nice!

I've been working on this

Nice Sketchup drawing! Cool design.

46 minutes ago, BB1 said:

Looks really nice!

I'll Say!!!!!

for once, a productive morning.

started i the shop, found some leftover T&G pieces (extra from the garden gate i made a bit ago), recut one and made a new drawer for a friends kitchen. the old drawer body was particle board, and it lasted about 40 years, and then just fell apart. made a new one, and later on, to my surprise, it fit!!

stopped by another friend's house and put up some brick mold trim around an exterior door he just had replaced to his garage. had to cut the parts to size once there, but it looks good, he'll paint it to match later.

and some running around with other admin errands.

and then this PM dug out the access to the septic tank, tomorrow is pump out day!!!!! gonna be a great day, pooh be gone!

This weekend I cleaned/organized my scrap wood storage bins and built a storage box for my zip ites.

The only plans I have for this week is yard work.

Our daughters came into town Friday night, and Saturday morning we spent 4 hours passing down boxes and separated them into the "Christmas bedroom", the 'keepsake bedroom" & the "go through this stuff & see what you want to keep bedroom". We spent the afternoon searching through old memories and our daughters, the youngest is 40, were quite surprised by what Patti had saved for them from their childhood. Sunday morning the 2 oldest played Tetris & packed their vehicles with what they were taking home. Sunday dinner with just the 5 of us was something we hadn't done in a long time. Pleasant and productive weekend.

Worked on getting the mitre gauge to cut a 90 degree cut....

As something was a bit....off..

About 1/2 a degreee? 10 test cuts and a square to check each cut...Finally got it locked in...

Align-a-cut?

They had 2 lines scratched into the disc...neither were close. The backer board has a slot cut from USING the saw..

When a board is still too long to cut out the bad sections..

We have ways

and a place to send cut-offs...

Got the Lunch Box Planer set up..

Because these needed run through..

As I wanted them all to be the same thickness...

Electric Leaf Blower to "shepherd" all the planer shavings out to the grass...

Had a Friend from The Woodshed arrive fro Texas....walk through tour, and he bought 3 planes. And, tried out a bunch of the others.

Still have everything in arms reach.....just takes a step or 2 more..

Boss has errands to run, today...I might go back to "puttering around"

I had a fall in the basement shop and decided it was time to clean.

I got the basement shop cleaned and tomorrow I'm going to take on the barn shop

Have you noticed that falls hurt a lot more now than they did a few years ago? Hope it didn't hurt too bad.

Just a flesh wound, but when it happens it's a Red Flag to stop and declutter

7 hours ago, Rusty S said:

Have you noticed that falls hurt a lot more now

...and the floor comes up at you at warp speed!

15 hours ago, lew said:

...and the floor comes up at you at warp speed!

For me it's that sudden stop, that's the worst

target stands for mini-targets (9" wide), for use in 2-gun matches.

On 9/16/2026 at 6:57 AM, Rusty S said:

Have you noticed that falls hurt a lot more now than they did a few years ago?

Yeah, we don't bounce as good as we used too.

On 9/16/2026 at 2:17 PM, lew said:

...and the floor comes up at you at warp speed!

It sure does!

On 9/17/2026 at 5:54 AM, DuckSoup said:

For me it's that sudden stop, that's the worst

Yep, that's the part that hurts!