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My yard works projects are pretty well completed, time to go back and finish my boring till. Part of the task ahead is to finalize my holder boards for the tools I intend on putting inside. You may be wondering, why even bother with these "antiques" while nowadays we are all familiar with drills, corded and cordless (battery power) and Drill press? Good question, and the answer will come to you the first time you find yourself away from a power source or when your battery pack dies on you. Oh, and not to mention, at times these powered assistants are sometimes way overkill for the job!!?? These old relic will never run out of power, their size and construction details enable them to sneak in pretty well everywhere their powered brethren cannot. Also a lot easier than trying to balance a top heavy tool while using a small size bit.... without fears of breaking your only bit of that size when the stores are closed. With minimal care, they will soldier on forever, never becomes ...

I have not been working on it since Monday, it has been raining and I have catched a cold from Jean, who got it from her grand daughter... I was doomed from the start, and sure enough, I now have a $&):?!@ man cold .... With my blood pressure medications, there are not many feel better medicine that I can take for it. The difference between with or without medication for a cold? 7 days with it, one week without, except you just feel more miserable. And before you asked, yes I get my flue shot every year, I am a cancer survivor... Where I left out, Monday Should have enough parts left to finished it. Yes, those are plane shavings on the ground,  my joinery was a bit tight, by design Wednesday between runs to the bathroom and rains, I went out to the barrel stand, removed the barrel and marked my pieces for the cross member and the angle piece (brace) by the post corner. Thursday I cut and installed them.  While I was adding a cross member to support the decking boards, I th...

First a confession:  My first real stationary power tool was a Radial Arm Saw, A 1965 Craftsman model... The kind that got recalled in the early 2000 for a safety hazard with the guard. Apparently you could cut yourself with it... Really!! This was followed by a bandsaw and later a newer Unisaw. Circa 90s. Me posing proudly with my first Unisaw,  the old Craftsman RAS is in the background. There was a wide range of models affected and the fix was ; Send us the old guard, will send you a new safer one, or in my older model case, send us the complete motor assembly, (the cutting head essentially) and we will send you $100... So you end up with a useless saw carriage and no working tool but with a US $100 check and they pay for the shipping. These carriage would then be destroyed upon receipt by them. So I thought at the time, Nah, I'll keep risking my life every time I used it instead :-) But what brought this question forward was one posed by Brian who was wondering how did th...

Day 4 started with me turning the furnace back on this morning... it's a tad cold. We were supposed to go back to the nursery this morning, but we waited for the temps to go up a bit. Apparently I have money burning my pocket so we have to go spend it on flowers... Huh, no tools? :-) Our flower production won't be enough for this year so we will supplement it for faster results :-) Well there goes my pocket money for this long week end  yard sales looking for tools :-) For various sundries reasons, I could not get to work on it until supper time, for which I was I/C of BBQ. So how long should it take me to slap a couple of side frames together while I wait for the BBQ to warm up? And should I bother to change before working on it, since it could get dirty? Nah! Good reasoning except that I was kinda rushed and the darn construction glue really oozed out and there was some on the grass, and I leaned over to inspect one of my corner assembly joint, and.... that's how I ruined...

It was definitely cooler last nite, not sure if we went down below 6C but the house was definitively cooler this AM, down to 67F. Furnace has been off for a few days, bonus. Started our day early to clean up the front flower bed, we were suppose to go to Valley Raceway opening today with the daughter and grand kids, but that did not happened. Teamwork :-) Did a few tulip transplants, found around the yard We did also managed to transplant a few trees from around my property, one of them a single Silver Birch for Heather, when this tree shows signs that it is going to make it, I would be able to cut the one by the deck at peace with myself,. Probably next year... By the time noonish rolled around we were both dead tired We took a good 2 hours nap with Rudy and went back to work: Her with more cleaning of flower gardens , me I went to the base wood shop to start the joinery on the barrel stand..YES, I actually cut some wood today...good progress on day 3 :-) Setting up my length stop for...