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Fridy already? How time flies when we get older. Christmas just around the corner. Went to grandson's high school band concert last nice. I swear they get better every time. Really enjoyed the music. Not much for the weekend. Pick up all the trash and limbs from yesterdays high winds. Gusts up to 40 mph. Glad not to be out in it. Starting to warm up a little bit, so may venture to the shop and see what I can conjure up. Need to make a small narrow rustic shelf for Indian fetishes I inherited from my brother. Can't just let them sit on top of a book shelf.
Everyone have a healthy and safe weekend and more.
David
 
Not much happening around here. Got aa Service Officers meeting this afternoon. It's supposed to rain tomorrow so no Harley time. We've gotten about an inch this week and that after an inch and a half the week before so for Arizona winter rain that's a pretty good amount. Sunday will be the usual Church and Bingo thing.

Oh I forgot I heard there was to be a football game of some sort this weekend so I might try to see a bit of that too.
 
Still making sheaths. Leatherwork is not fast at least not for me. I have no confidence in my skills as of yet so I am constantly double checking my measurements and patterns before I cut the leather.

Woodturning magazine has asked that I prepare a couple of articles on some Christmas ornaments (snowmen, gnomes and Santas) that I make and on some vases I make that I developed after my explorations into Japanese tableware. The editor said that I should not delay too long as Christmas in the magazine world comes long before December. I am looking for three sticks of plain white box elder which is not readily available in my area.

Other than that I have been helping my wife collate and pack some needlepoint kits that she is preparing for a correspondence course. Each kit contains a picture of the design, instructions, a prepared canvas, needles and 23 different colors of thread. By far the most tedious is making sure that each kit has the correct threads so my job has been to check off against a list all of the color numbers.

You know, growing up I never had anything but the box of eight crayons so colors are not my thing. My wife must have had all the colors because the is able to distinguish between shades, hues, tint, tinge, tone, aspect, cast, value and intensity of hundreds of different colors. She has thousands and I am not exaggerating of colors of needlepoint thread in her collection and somehow she is able to find the correct combination of threads to end up with an amazing picture on a piece of canvas. I marvel at her work.
 
Still need to put together a couple of cutting boards. Started a kitty wall project using some nice strait grained doug fir a neighbor gifted me when he moved. I ran out of doug fir and went to my local wood guy's place only to find he just had surgery and the shop was closed until the 20th, so the kitty wall project is on hold. Got family coming for a visit which means a massive house cleaning under SWMBO's "guidance". Still need to order some seeds. Lots to do. Stay safe.
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Not sure what's on the agenda for today...still need to check with SWMBO, lol. Saturday will be an afternoon band rehearsal, so part of Friday will be prepping for that. I'll be recording the football game Sunday so I can watch it on my own time. I've had a couple of invitations to go to Super Bowl gatherings with family and friends, but I want to actually watch the game and the commercials, not sit in a room of men (and some women) yelling at a big screen TV.
 
Boiler went this week
Alarm system is being updated tuesday
Elen has been helping out babysitting as once again my grandson is ill and neither babysitter will watch sick kid
He is going to ent specialist in 2 weeks

We are hosting a small Super Bowl party in my home and I already regret it since I know elen is exhausted
I've done little work in shop
Working on children's Adirondack chairs

My plastic and wood electric guitar project is on hold as I need to accumulate more plastic and I won't cook it in oven until I can open windows in house

Some other small projects soon but temps will crash soon so working out there will be impossible and next week we are going to Connecticut for 4 or 5 days
 
image.jpgIt’s a melting day here, +7C and partly sunny. I had to take off the insulated coveralls!
It’s a good chance to tidy up some of the accumulated snow around the buildings from last week’s 3 day storm. We got off easy here, just about 40 cm of snow, but the north wind howled off the bay for days and blew a lot of it off the open areas. Sydney, Cape Breton, however, recorded 150cm!!!😳 That’s at the eastern tip of Nova Scotia, facing Newfoundland. They’re equipped for it, of course, but still…

I’m still working away at the kitchen cabinet job. I’m slow, hate mistakes and do-overs.

Enjoy your weekend.
 
Jonathan Shively said:
Mike, I did not know there was a woodturning magazine published anymore.
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Woodturning is published in Great Britain. It is quite a good magazine and has been good to me.

This month's issue contains this article of which I am quite proud. :D :p:p I have had 14 articles published by them in the last 3 years.

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Peter Rideout said:
We got off easy here, just about 40 cm of snow...
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40 cm of snow would shut down my city for a week, especially if the cloud cover remains and the temps stay below freezing. 150 cm is the kind of snowfall that would temporarily shut down a ski resort.

One of the nice things about Albuquerque is that snow seldom lasts. We had a 2 to 3 inches (5 to 7-ish cm) on the ground this morning, but by noon we had mostly blue skies and the streets and sidewalks were just wet. By mid-afternoon, the lawn in our back yard was completely snow-free. If it's cloudy, snow melts a bit slower, but if it's clear, the sun will burn it off pretty quickly, even if the temps are a bit below freezing. At about a mile high in elevation, the UV rays from the sun have a pretty profound effect on things like that.
 
Vaughn McMillan said:
40 cm of snow would shut down my city for a week, especially if the cloud cover remains and the temps stay below freezing. 150 cm is the kind of snowfall that would temporarily shut down a ski resort.

One of the nice things about Albuquerque is that snow seldom lasts. We had a 2 to 3 inches (5 to 7-ish cm) on the ground this morning, but by noon we had mostly blue skies and the streets and sidewalks were just wet. By mid-afternoon, the lawn in our back yard was completely snow-free. If it's cloudy, snow melts a bit slower, but if it's clear, the sun will burn it off pretty quickly, even if the temps are a bit below freezing. At about a mile high in elevation, the UV rays from the sun have a pretty profound effect on things like that.
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Yours is an interesting climate and geography for sure. I’m surprised you’re still getting a bit of snow in mid February, certainly a function of the elevation.

We are basically at sea level and you can ascend a couple of hundred metres on the highest inland hills. No place here is more than about 30 minutes drive from the ocean or its inlets. The Gulf Stream passes close by, but so is the thermal mass of the cold North Atlantic, so we have a maritime climate and very changeable weather. We can get a mighty dump of snow as we saw last week, but then rain might take most of it away in a few days. We still have to deal with the snow, however, so the melt water doesn’t lead to wet basements.

I think many Canadians, particularly from the west, enjoy your part of the world for a warm break in late winter. I’m not sure I could survive your summers though. As a northerner, I’m not built for hot countries!
 
Friday,huh....left TX for AZ, Friday morn. Stopped in NM, for 3 days, visiting kids, El Paso for a day, arrived here in Sun City West, last nite.
If all goes well, we will be here till late March. YAY Then the trek home will begin..3 days. Lots of catching up to do.
cheers...............bil
 
And topping off an already lousy week as customer service reps and technicians have now reached a 4th world nation status here in america
Listen to this one worth an unreal response like are they kidding me?

My wife drives a 2021 small Mercedes suv
The wiper was frozen she turned them on the wiper blade broke off
Went to 3 major auto part chains advanced auto auto zone and I forgot the other name
The blade is unavailable thru any or them and they can't even order it
Went to Mercedes they only sell them by pairs over 100 bucks

Rock auto claims they have it under 6 bucks but shipping is 10

Auto dealerships are a lost cause
Seems they are paying their monkey mechanics more money then the governors of any state
 
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