Friday 2/16/2024

[Don Baer]

Another week is over. Not a lot going on here. Supposed to be in the 70 so it might include some quality time on the Harley. Other than that I got some office clean up planned and need to do a load of laundry. Sunday the usual Church followed by working Bingo.

 

[David Johnson]

Slow weekend. Just as always for the winter months. Raining ,which we need ,but keeps me in the house. Church on Sunday but otherwise nothing planned.
Everyone have a safe and healthy weekend.
David

 

[Tom Niemi]

Packing for 6 weeks of Florida sunshine

 

[Leo Voisine]

Just finishing stripping the wallpaper. Next is to finish framing the new closet door then to finalize the wallboard to get ready for painting.

 

[bill kaminski]

Tom..why so late in winter? enjoy
Me, in AZ now for 4-5 wks, and then to home.

 

[Darren Wright]

Need to do some re-arranging of the attic to setup a guest bedroom for when we have visitors. Maybe get the kids toys and all the photograph boxes moved over from the shop to the attic also. Sanding drywall, more mudding probably on the guest cabin to get it ready for this spring.

 

[Vaughn McMillan]

Running errands with LOML this afternoon. Looks like the rest of the weekend will be a combination of house and yard chores, with some music stuff thrown in.

 

[Tom Niemi]

Tom..why so late in winter? enjoy
Me, in AZ now for 4-5 wks, and then to home.

We normally go in February, but where we rent, moved us to March, no problem for me as I like winter, also get 3 extra days this way

 

[Mike Stafford]

Wife took off this morning to spend the weekend stitching with friends. That leaves me alone with my girlfriends. You can count them on no hands.

Trying to think of some projects to turn for future articles.... First they have to be something interesting that other turners might enjoy. Second they have to be something I can turn. That narrows it down a bit.

Finally finished the 6000 pages of the Game of Thrones novels. Never read anything except the Bible that had as many characters. There were so many characters in those books that each book included an index at the back identifying each character and the family relationship. Sheesh it was confusing to keep track. In the GOT TV series they mercifully pared down the number of characters and even changed some names that were in the book that were confusing as other characters had similar names.

It was 67 yesterday so I went to the shop wearing a heavy vest and cut out my kukri blank. I have an uninsulated concrete floor in my shop so it stays cold in there until July. I still have to smooth out the contours of the concave surfaces but I did get all the convex surfaces cleaned up on my belt sander. Those ceramic belts I bought are the BOMB for cleaning up rough metal surfaces. Next is cleaning up the concave surfaces and grinding the bevels. This will be the largest knife I have built. Grinding the bevels could be a real challenge.

I don't really need a kukri but I think they are cool looking so I wanted to make one. Maybe it will become my watermelon knife.

 

[Chuck Ellis]

Finishing up with my packing getting ready for move to North Carolina to be near my son.
Ran out of steam for today, so will likely have to finish a couple of more boxes in the shop when Jason arrives...
think he's planning to be here later today or tomorrow with a trailer for first load.... still waiting for final details on the house sale
which is suppose to close on the 26th.

Time for a nap now.

 

[Dave Hawksford]

Not a lot happening. Busy day restoring a 1735 painting. Training BG. This was the fastest week I think I've ever experienced. Funeral tomorrow then visit the Jon, Kira and grad kids.

 

[allen levine]

Sounds great Tom another year and we won't be babysitting so we are thinking a month or two in florida sounds great

Yesterday afternoon my daughter informed us we didn't have to babysit today so we made all kind of reservations and today we are in the Lancaster area of pa for elen to do some cruising around quilt
Shops
We chose the Morgantown area so tonight we can visit a fairly new casino
For those that know tomorrow is shady maple the largest buffet in America
Sunday we head over to the Bethlehem area to our original destination
Wind creek casino and hotel
If we knew a week ago we were free Friday we might had made a trip down south Thursday as we are free till the following monday
Not a biggie we are happy to be out of the house and trwvelling

 

[Ted Calver]

Taking a new toy for a test drive…LEM #8 meat grinder. I picked up a couple of boneless pork butts at Costco’s sale last week and hope to turn all 18 lbs into a few different kinds of breakfast sausage.
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[Dave Hawksford]

Taking a new toy for a test drive…LEM #8 meat grinder. I picked up a couple of boneless pork butts at Costco’s sale last week and hope to turn all 18 lbs into a few different kinds of breakfast sausage.
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A Ted, if you need any recipes, give me a call. Jared has some awesome recipes.

 

[Rennie Heuer]

Finishing up construction on the cherry sideboard. A little hand sanding and then the oil.
Splitting time up between the shop and other duties. Jan is still using the walker so I help out with housework, shopping and other errands