Good morning!!!!

[Thomas]

Nature cleaning itself gstrom99?

Mother nature has way getting her point across one way or another.

Morning all! Currently 28 going to a high of 39.
Lou, condolences for the loss of your brother. Hope they fix you up quickly!
Not much happening here. Still waiting out the cold weather before starting outside projects. Wife and I are doing ok health wise. No changes since my last post.
We are making plans to head south for a few weeks to check out South Carolina and Georgia for future wintering.
Wife gave me a place of distinction for all of my creations.
View attachment 787435Have a few more projects in my head! Need to replace my bandsaw and find a good source for cheaper hard woods.
Hope everyone stays safe and healthy!

You sure doing mighty fine work Phil.

 

[Thomas]

Morning all, 32 going up to 48 and windy, sun is up.

Lou - condolences about your brother. What can they do to help you with heart problems? Hope this is just a bump in the road, prayers sent

Not much going on was a bit under the weather, feeling better now.

Be well,
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Old fella still pretty good shape.

 

[Thomas]

50° but chilly wind again. Went out to take a few pics
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Snagglepuss has been inside all morning, now in my chair. Our cats are downstairs in a timeout for getting on the counters and table.
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"Snagglepuss has been inside all morning, now in my chair. Our cats are downstairs in a timeout for getting on the counters and table."

Cats downstairs possible plotting there next move by the looks Snagglepuss wants no part of it.

 

[Thomas]

36F blue jay sky steady 10mph wind.

Short work day afterwards made 2 stops for critter food.
rep roaster chicken for dinner just have to make mash potatoes stuffing and gray...I put Mrs. in charge of open can cranberry sauce.
Been 3 heavy snowstorms since I clear path from driveway to bulk head door 55',to BIGGER task for the snowblower chew thru 3-4 feet snow,30mins Kubota in low range snow has new place to melt...made 1 boo boo need lawn repair come May.

Plans for this evening...can't think of any.

 

[daugen]

old friend coming for dinner, bringing a pizza with her, we shall eat in the rv for fun, hoping she might want to take a short trip with me some time, particularly to
mutual friend's home in NY Catskills. She called all in a swivet, got to pizza place and they had made the wrong pizza, so she would be late. No problem.
Rv is warm, music playing quietly in background, wine is ready to open.
We have been good friends for 30 years and despite both being single now, are quite content to remain just friends. Without benefits.
Other than dinner out. When I'm traveling, she will come and water my garden. A good friend indeed.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

"Snagglepuss has been inside all morning, now in my chair. Our cats are downstairs in a timeout for getting on the counters and table."

Cats downstairs possible plotting there next move by the looks Snagglepuss wants no part of it.

Snagglepuss, being an outside cat, knows a good warm chair when she gets it.

 

[rswyan]

36F and sunny @ 18:00, heading down to around 26 tonight for the overnight low. High today was 43.7F.

Still working the night shift.

Hopper, deer, and two tube feeders refilled yesterday first thing yesterday. Deer feeder had been cleaned out by this morning, other critters appear to be enjoying the refilled feeders.

Then another week's worth of meds doled out.

Yesterday's Amazon deliveries were Milescraft 700 piece pocket hole screw assortment (Torx drive, not square), the correct 5" pads to fit the Makita ROS (I initially ordered 6" because that was all that were available at the time. I have a couple of 6" hook-n-loop sanding mice on order which I will use those on, for hand sanding), a Dewalt drill bit set for down here at the house, and a three piece Whiteside Dado router bit set for undersized plywood:

Ended up having to remove the Wonderboard panel after Woman asked "Where is that 3rd knob for the shower ?" ... which I had been using on the valves. Had sealed it up in the wall.

Worst part of that was, I thought "Well, the Good Morning crew will get a kick out that ..." ... so after having set it back in there to get a picture, guess what happened ...

Yup ... put the Wonderboard panel back up ... without removing the knob ... again ... so it has to come down once more ....

Hilarious ...

Flipped over shelf board and got two coats of poly applied to it, then flipped it again late last night after the second coat had dried and sanded the original side I started on with some 220, cleaned that off, and threw a 3rd coat of poly on it. Have used about 1/3 to 1/2 a quart of poly so far.

The Woman says it looks good. Probably could stand a 4th coat ...

Ordered Domino's for dinner last night, Woman got the Chicken Alfredo bowl and Parmesan Bites, I got the Buffalo wings. Also tried the Parmesan Bites for the first time. Mmmmm. We have a free pizza there, will need to take advantage of that ... maybe tonight ?

Made some good progress on cabinetry design last night as well.

Had been working on the design for the woodworking bench and that had kind of stalled a bit so I started on the router table. Happy with how it's turning out.

Using Denis The Dutchman's system that allows any size drawers to be relocated wherever they will fit:

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Drawer width's are standardized at a 13.5 inch width with three drawer depths: 2.75", 5.5" and 8.25"

Need to migrate that over to the woodworking bench and verify that will work, as far as fitting goes, and then should be ready to generate a cut list and start cutting parts.

Tomorrow would be a good day for that, as it will get up to around 50F.

Amazon deliveries today were the template for the router lift, 500 pieces of 1 1/4" pocket hole screws (for joining 3/4 material), a can of CRC Dry Graphite Lube, and some Starbond CA glue:

Time to get cracking.

Hope everyone is having a good Wednesday ...

 

[Wagtail]

Good (Thursday) morning. Overnight Low was a chilly 4.5C and it's presently warmed up to 20.2C. It's fairly clear and calm.

I put the flagpole back up and discovered where that odd 'rattle' was coming from... a section of the old, unused, chook-coop roof had come off. That's OK as the coop is derelict and I can use that 'tin' roofing section on the woodshed where it's going rusty.

Other than that, I've got a future project looming that I'm loath to start; one of my blackwood trees is well and truly dying (all others are healthy) and I'm going to have to figure out how to fell it. There's not one single trunk. I may (probably) need to employ a professional tree-feller to remove it. <sigh>

Collected my two cases of wine from the PO yesterday and, pleasantly surprised to find that an Amazon Prime parcel (carabiner watch) had arrived a week ahead of the estimate. Yay!

That's about it, take care all.

 

[KilroyJC]

Mig Alley.
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[Kyle_in_Tex]

Speaking of Airheads, got a call from a neighbor that his wife, who works at the local grade school, found my copy of this month's club magazine in with the school's mail yesterday. That's a new low for our mailman.

"That's a new low for our mailman."

It seems like something is wrong at the post office. Have the post people been so jerked around that they don't care anymore?

Chris

At least your postman isn't stealing anything that can be easily fenced. We turned in a complaint online back just after Christmas on a stolen card worth $200. Still haven't heard a word from the post office. We have rec'd envelopes torn open (looking for cash), packages torn open looking for easily sold goods. I believe it's local...or possibly in the Austin unit that handles our mail prior to it getting here.

ISWYDT

Korean war term. You get the blue star!

Work, work, work, makes the day fly by. I need 48 hours in a day. I worry about what slips thru the cracks, not getting done.

Son's 2nd track meet tomorrow, daughter's tennis game tomorrow, would like to see both, can't be in 2 places at once. My boss said take off, and don't even consider reconciling with vacation.

Refurbished laptop sitrep: I upgraded it to Win11. It took a while. Then plenty of Win updates also installed. Next, Dell's website recommended I install an app that keeps it updated as far as Bios and drivers are concerned. That took a while. We only have about 14mg down internet. My son was complaining about it getting too warm. I need to make sure the fan is coming on when the temp is high. I can't actually feel it humming or hear it. But haven't checked now after all the updates. It was built in 2019.