I was at the local hardware store this afternoon to get some poly glue
for the coffee table that's been in the works for nigh on a year
(inlaying some cocobolo into oak on the legs) and the cell phone
biddle-dee-beeped.
SWMBO was in SWMBO Jr's room trying to vacuum. Asked me to pick up some
coat hooks so she could "get all this crap up off the floor so a body
can walk in here!"
Came home, grabbed a chunk of hickory out of the scrap pile, jointed,
planed, routed, drilled, sanded, shellaced, sanded, shallaced, sanded,
shellaced, attached hardware, applied to wall, and got "all this crap
up off the floor so a body can walk in here!".
Heh.
Made her forget about the coffee table that's been in the works for
nigh on a year for almost 10 minutes!
Priceless.
In article <[email protected]>, Eric Ryder
<[email protected]> wrote:
> So what tools did you buy??
Oh, crap...
I *knew* I forgot something.
In article <[email protected]>, Never
Enough Money <[email protected]> wrote:
> It takes me
> several weekends to make something worthy of going inside a house
Sounds like you need a different house.
;-)
In article <[email protected]>, Phil
<[email protected]> wrote:
> she was happy
That's what it's all about, isn't it?
Excellent. That's what make marriages last. Unfortunately, I can't do
woodworking solutios like that in a day or even weekend. It takes me
several weekends to make something worthy of going inside a house (as
opposed to garage shop quality.).
Dave Balderstone <dave@N_O_T_T_H_I_S.balderstone.ca> wrote in message news:<231020042055064597%dave@N_O_T_T_H_I_S.balderstone.ca>...
> I was at the local hardware store this afternoon to get some poly glue
> for the coffee table that's been in the works for nigh on a year
> (inlaying some cocobolo into oak on the legs) and the cell phone
> biddle-dee-beeped.
>
> SWMBO was in SWMBO Jr's room trying to vacuum. Asked me to pick up some
> coat hooks so she could "get all this crap up off the floor so a body
> can walk in here!"
>
> Came home, grabbed a chunk of hickory out of the scrap pile, jointed,
> planed, routed, drilled, sanded, shellaced, sanded, shallaced, sanded,
> shellaced, attached hardware, applied to wall, and got "all this crap
> up off the floor so a body can walk in here!".
>
> Heh.
>
> Made her forget about the coffee table that's been in the works for
> nigh on a year for almost 10 minutes!
>
> Priceless.
"Dave Balderstone" <dave@N_O_T_T_H_I_S.balderstone.ca> wrote in message
news:231020042055064597%dave@N_O_T_T_H_I_S.balderstone.ca...
>I was at the local hardware store this afternoon to get some poly glue
> for the coffee table that's been in the works for nigh on a year
> (inlaying some cocobolo into oak on the legs) and the cell phone
> biddle-dee-beeped.
>
> SWMBO was in SWMBO Jr's room trying to vacuum. Asked me to pick up some
> coat hooks so she could "get all this crap up off the floor so a body
> can walk in here!"
>
> Came home, grabbed a chunk of hickory out of the scrap pile, jointed,
> planed, routed, drilled, sanded, shellaced, sanded, shallaced, sanded,
> shellaced, attached hardware, applied to wall, and got "all this crap
> up off the floor so a body can walk in here!".
>
> Heh.
>
> Made her forget about the coffee table that's been in the works for
> nigh on a year for almost 10 minutes!
>
> Priceless.
So what tools did you buy??
SWMBO asked me if I could make her something to hang her necklaces
on-- Went to the shop & found a crooked piece of cedar limb-- bout 2"
dia-- Bandsawed, planed, sanded, sanded, Drilled holes for Cedar
twigs- glued, lacquered & was finished in about three hours ( used 5
min epoxy for twigs-- fills gaps pretty well) Wewll -- she was happy
Dave Balderstone wrote:
>Made her forget about the coffee table that's been in the works for
>nigh on a year for almost 10 minutes!
Works every time. Last week I "finally" put the raised
panels on the back of the kitchen peninsula. This week? I
got in some "non-kitchen" shoppe time.
sigh...
UA100, whose "things to do in the shoppe not related to the
kitchen" list far exceeds the "kitchen things needing
completion" list...