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Because... Oups! But lets back track first. Our daughter has been sick for a little while, so we had the grand kids a few days for her to recover. In our ongoing war against screen time versus more constructive way to spent time, introduced my oldest to Crokinole . A bit like curling or shuffle board except you play your piece by flicking them with your finger, while always keeping a butt cheek on your chair, for those tricky angle shots... She is a quick learner, Grampa won hands down the first two games then she whipped me, hummm :-) Rudy getting in the action.  I can smell my treats from across the living room, he says Did not realize while taking the pic, but she is laughing because  she swapped the middle piece for her own. I'm red she is green Thursday went to the Glooscap Reserve for the inauguration of their new community center I wanted to talked to the chief about my next Rotary project which is bringing clean water to all our reserves. The Provincial Lieutenant Gove...

Yesterday started the day with a visit by our District Governor (DG) to my workshop. We got talking about woodworking the night before at the meet and greet and he wanted to see it. Phew, good thing it is currently a working shop, I can show it and walk around :-) Following that it was time for Rotary business. Executive meeting, DG meeting and of course our regular meeting. We went over our business plan and aligning some of our projects with our DG objectives for the year. After our meetings we took our DG on a tour around town to see some of the projects we worked on. Every year, when our District Governor comes to see us, we in turn make a donation once a year in his or her name to the Rotary International fund.  That is in addition to what we give to the foundation, throught member's personal contributions and of course, our club. The big check presentation at the Rotary Riverside park The DG is the one on my left holding the check, our president Christine is holding the other...

But first, the results of more organizing around the bench. The scene I left last nite: The picture and carving I put up the nite before keep falling off, so out they went. I put a hook to hang my saws, and a nail to hold a sizing gauge I think that cover that window space quite well, I'm happy I think I can call this wall done !... for now :-) Been meaning to do that for a while, but right now my big source of motivation for organizing everything in sight around the house, are the grand kids and Rudy. Rudy to keep out of trouble and the kids to keep occupied and away from their stupid phones,  err I meant watching stupid stuff on Youtube for kids... And before you asked, changing wifi password is meaningless, the girls know how to get anything from Grampa... , especially when the girls and Rudy gang up on me. Oups, if they read that I'm in trouble :-) Sooooo... been busy with organizing a space downstairs to gather all the paint supplies. For years that stuff was stored in Rub...

Last nite, I sneaked back into the shop and put more tool holders up on the wall. These holders I made years ago for a previous shop, but I kept them.  I had them modified in another shop to be held on my pegboards, by screwing L hooks into the back, spaced for the pegboards. On the holder for my scraper burnishers, I removed the hooks in the back then screwed it on the side of my plane till, using its original screw holes. Had to remove a few things on the till side to install it For another to hold chisels, screwdrivers and etc, I left the hooks then tried just drilling two holes in the wallboard. Then I just rotated the holder as if it was thru pegboard. Took some finagling, but that worked.  It did not took long to load it. Add a picture with a led flashing candle and a carving and we are done :-) Back to the hall table, first order of business was to cleaned up last nite mortise walls then checked for squareness before fine tuning my dummy tenon blank to fit. Problem was,...