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Good Monday morning Patriot Woodworkers! What did you get done over the weekend, and what have you planned for the week ahead! Inquiring minds want to know. Please tell us what's happening in your shops, your life, and any events going on with you. Thank you for being here folks!

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Current Events

By now we should be firing up our Adopt a Wounded Warrior Family For Christmas campaign, but I am afraid to announce that this year it's going to be impossible for me to get it off the ground. For such a seemingly simple thing to do, it really is time consuming but, very satisfying and for an incredibly worthy cause, I just won't have the time between moving across country and all the logistics involved for both the Warrior Christmas and our move at the same time.

We are out of here on 11/10. And that date is approaching so fast, I am feeling a tad overwhelmed with the list of things yet to do, and all the packing still to do, it seems impossible to complete at this point. But we will!

With all that being said, we would like to encourage everyone to contribute at other venues to help support our men and women veterans, disabled and active duty this Holiday Season. To help you with this, in a dedicated post I will supply some links to some vetted organizations that you can donate too, or purchase presents for the children of our service members and veterans. So stay tuned!

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Sunday's "Puttering Around"

Clamps have been removed....

EVERY glue joint has been reinforced with 2" long screws

MIGHT try to enter the shop, today...as I need to run the router around..

Change the router bit to a Rebate bit...

Then, trim a couple plywood panels to size..

Stay tuned

Working on a jewelry box, some lawn stuff, adn just enjoying the wonderful stretch of weather we're having (it's very unusual for us). Got some medical stuff this week, Marie has procedure tomorrow and we're still have some prep to do for that.

heavy rains last few days, about 4" of rain overall. storage tanks are full to the brim (yay), but parts of our road aren't looking too good. anyone have 20k?

bit of hail last night:

10 minutes ago, DAB said:

heavy rains last few days, about 4" of rain overall. storage tanks are full to the brim (yay), but parts of our road aren't looking too good. anyone have 20k?

bit of hail last night:

That is insane for New Mexico.

Wife tripped over the weekend and fell on both knees. Went to orthopedist this morning and good news no breaks, just bruised and sore. Something I had never heard id to use pad to get some of the blood out of the area and reduce bruising .

Actually the first thing this morning was to redo the brick at the highway where our road comes out. Kinda rough place to get out and gravel road makes it worse . Some folks just hit the gas and spin out making a hole in the gravel. I got the idea a few months ago to lay in brick (holes up) and fill with gravel. It works pretty good but I had added some and did not dig deep enough to give the brick support.

This afternoon spent moving and laying brick pavers for the front walk. More on that tomorrow and maybe I will remember to get a pic.

47 minutes ago, Gerald said:

Wife tripped over the weekend and fell on both knees. Went to orthopedist this morning and good news no breaks, just bruised and sore. Something I had never heard id to use pad to get some of the blood out of the area and reduce bruising .

Actually the first thing this morning was to redo the brick at the highway where our road comes out. Kinda rough place to get out and gravel road makes it worse . Some folks just hit the gas and spin out making a hole in the gravel. I got the idea a few months ago to lay in brick (holes up) and fill with gravel. It works pretty good but I had added some and did not dig deep enough to give the brick support.

This afternoon spent moving and laying brick pavers for the front walk. More on that tomorrow and maybe I will remember to get a pic.

There is a product to stabilize gravel, it looks like giant six-pac rings, works well.

Got some of the wslk done this morning.

Roof almost done

Must have missed Monday again.