It's Friday - 5/24/2013 Edition

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Have a lot of leaves to get cleaned up in the back yard, then I'm hoping to get the pool cover off and get it running this weekend. Have some door and drawer fronts to get sanded and finished. Have a new scope to mount on one of my plinkers. Need to go see my nephew's softball game also.

What's everyone else got going?
 
Jarrod has taken off for the mountains to play with guns a camp, Something I did for years.

Starting tomorrow Rolling Thunder Weekend. Saturday the Local dealership opens at 7AM for coffee and donuts and then hot dogs and burgers , band plays all afternoon and at 6:30 a ride to the wall. Sunday morning @ 8:00 AM 4 K leave from the same dealer to downtown DC.
I hope to get some good snapshots. Monday is up in the air.

A few deliverys and and will call it a day when their done.
 
Friday: Work on the keepsake box I've been building. Yeah, my swap box is finished. I've been building a similar box for LOML to keep the peace!

Saturday: Shop time to work on the bedside table that matches the platform bed I'm building.

Sunday: Start the day going through the newspaper and preparing brunch. Later, I'll throw something on the grill, then get ready for the Coke 600.
 
my wife took off today and is off through Tuesday, so maybe Ill get her to help me do a second coat of painting in the attic bedroom.
Moving along there slowly, its too much like a root canal.
gonna go buy a floor today, weather is miserable up here, 98% all day and night long for 3 straight days, very little rain, just muggy.
 
Working on the electrical service to the Putter Palace today. Supposed to be my day off, but this afternoon I have to make a hospital visit and a rehab hospital visit in Las Vegas. Tomorrow and Sunday are work days for me. Monday I have to preside over a service at the local Memorial Park. Have been adopted as a Marine Chaplain for the occasion. Full color guard, honor guard, bugles, choir, etc. It will be goose-bump raising.
 
Busy today in the shop. Got all the locust for the cross all milled and glued up. Finally got around to cleaning up the shop a bit.
Working Sat and Sun. It has been raining cats and dogs all week and it forecasted to finally clear up for Monday so I'm sure we will be having some of the kids and grandkids over for a cookout after the parade.
I picked up about 100bf of cherry the other day and I need to get that planed down. Maybe Sat afternoon after work.
 
I'll be patching cracks and holes in our entry and up the stairs. We (I) took down wallpaper a few weeks ago then other things got in the way of the patch work and painting. Also adding 4ft high faux wainscotting to the entryway. Gotta go get paint and the lumber at lunch today and will get started when I get home. Hope to have the trim painted and all the wall patching done by sunday night. Then painting walls on Monday...we'll see if that all gets done as I have a feeling a BBQ or a beer or two will get in the way, err I hope they do anyway! :D
 
Tess, Eric, Josh and my nephew and his wife, Micheal and Angie are at my parent's new house insulating the ceilings and putting up the knotty pine ceiling. Hope they are done when I get home! Otherwise, grilling for the crew tonight, splitting wood as weather permits, hauling manure also.
 
Looks like a mostly music weekend…

Tonight I'm going out to see one of my old bandmates play with his current band. Might sit in with them for a song or two, even though I've never played with them before. (Hey, everybody knows Mustang Sally and Comfortably Numb, right?) :D

Saturday I'm delivering and setting up (and eventually tearing down) a PA system for some type of outdoor DJ gig in the parking lot of the University of NM Sports Arena (known as The Pit). A drummer friend of mine runs a sound company on the side; he's playing in Oklahoma this weekend, so I'm helping him out with this gig. (I did something similar for him with a smaller system at the Hyatt Regency Hotel last weekend.) The system I'm supplying is a nice, compact combination of QSC and JBL components, with 2000 watts for the high end and 7200 watts for the subwoofers. It should be a pretty thumping rig. I'm just dealing with the racks and stacks…the DJ is flying in from Denver to handle the music part.

Sunday I'll be hanging at a local Irish pub with Donohoe and Grimes, the same guys I played with last Tuesday night, although I won't be playing with them this time due to space and volume constraints in this venue.

Monday, I'm headed to a nearby lake for my first Hobie Cat experience. I'll get to find out if my messed-up back can handle the fun. ;) The owner of the boat is Mike (the "Grimes" part of Donohoe and Grimes) and the other guy going with us is Donnie, the guy who runs the sound company (and who also plays drums with Donohoe and Grimes most of the time, except when he's gigging elsewhere). It's like everybody here is connected in multiple ways, lol.
 
It's looking like a rain-out, but all kinds of indoor jobs to do. Need to straighten up the barn and shop so I can actually work in there. Nine more ewes are due to lamb anytime, so have to keep an eye there. And there's always paperwork.
Might check out the new Star Trek too.
I hope you all have a good Memorial Day weekend down south there:wave:
 
Rain this weekend, but the sun will shine when our daughter visits us for the weekend. She lives in Manhattan & works as a Producer for ABC 20/20. She's the Go-To gal for animal stories.
Working on a couple of Marble Tic-Tac-Toe games that I saw on FWW & Youtube; one for the wife & daughter. Completing just in time for daughter's visit.
Have been rehabbing from the knee surgery. Just had my 2-wk follow-up. Doing well, about 2-3 wks ahead of schedule, taking daily walks (weather permitting) of ~ 1/2 mile. Dr's OK to remove one knee high compression stocking; OK to drive: & OK to resume my Brandy nightcap.
 
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working on stuff for when i finally get the cnc machine. various types of cribbage boards (4 types of fish (bass, salmon, northern, and trout), all 50 states and probably one of the whole shebang, aircraft carrier top, aircraft, and maybe some cars), trivets, and all kinds of stuff. nice thing about sketchup, i can do them up as electrons, convert the code from one to the other, and i'm ready to go. then it's the heavy lift shopping, and anything else the wife :blah: can think of....
 
"...Monday, I'm headed to a nearby lake for my first Hobie Cat experience. I'll get to find out if my messed-up back can handle the fun. ;) The owner of the boat is Mike (the "Grimes" part of Donohoe and Grimes) and the other guy going with us is Donnie, the guy who runs the sound company (and who also plays drums with Donohoe and Grimes most of the time, except when he's gigging elsewhere). It's like everybody here is connected in multiple ways, lol." Vaughn

Vaughn, I went to the same schools as Hobie. The Hobie Cats are made about 8/10 of a mile from my home. One of the docs I worked with has a home on the beach in Carlsbad and has a Hobie. You now know everything I know about Hobie Cats. Pretty close to zero isn't it.

Enjoy,
JimB
 
Another weekend of working, another local festival just a couple of towns over (towns are cheek to jowl here) as they don't have a liquor shop in their town anymore. That means long days of running beer etc to the festival all day long whenever they call. I hope on Sunday to get part of the day off to make a Costco run as much for us as for the L shop, and it's nice to get away from the neighbourhood for an afternoon. I also hope to steal the time to finish up the second slab bench, been too busy to just put it together and finish it!
 
I'm mostly watching varnish cure so, I am puttering around the shop doing all those little things we always plan to get to "someday". . .

  • Make some permanent elevator blocks for the legs of the right side table of the table saw (been propped up on stacks of scraps for too long).
  • Replace a too short power cord that has been running on a too long extension cord for . . . well . . . too long.
  • Re-org my hand sharpening paraphernalia so it all ends up in the same general area (I've built a bunch of drawers into and under machine stands but, haven't taken the time to fill them logically.
  • Re-org the router table drawers . . . the oddest types of things end up in there for some reason and then things that should be there end up across the shop for no reason I can figure out yet :doh:.
  • Continue my efforts to eventually empty my stacked red metal Craftsman tool box (I want to eventually replace it with a shop made tool chest sometime before I retire).
Outside the shop (there's an outside!?!) I am overdue on sprinkler patrol as exhibited by small duck ponds in some locations and dying plants in others.
 
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Spending part of the day tidying up in the shop. I found myself humming the Glenn Bradley theme song. You know, The one made famous by the hit musical West side story.

Come on, you can see it coming.

"There's a place for this"
 
Spending part of the day tidying up in the shop. I found myself humming the Glenn Bradley theme song. You know, The one made famous by the hit musical West side story.

Come on, you can see it coming.

"There's a place for this"

Sure, we all hum Broadway show tunes while we work away in our shops. Nothing was more inspiring than listening to Tom Niemi and Larry Merlau burst into song, singing "Anything You Can Do" from Annie Get Your Gun, when they were up visiting me. I guess our secret is now out. Sorry guys.
 
Friday was a busy, yet profitable day of deliveries at work... unfortunately I will need the $ to cover the new water heater I'm about to go scare up... right after I check into a hotel until Monday. (Luckily I still have bonus points to 'spend' and the hotel is 'free'). I refuse to pay weekend rates to hook up said heater.
 
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