Wood shop photos...

Wood shop photos...  After being chastised by friend and former colleague Doug S., I'm posting some photos of what I've been doing.  Below, left to right: scroll saw, band saw, and planer.  All of them are now fully assembled, aligned, calibrated, tested, and (in the case of the last two) wired to power.

Barn progress...

Barn progress...  The photo at right is from Monday, when the tile guys were putting down the Durorock underlayment in the room that will become my office in the barn.  This cement board comes in 2' x 4' sheets, stuck to the floor with thinset and then screwed down with screws at about 8" intervals.  The seams are leveled with some more thin set.  The end result is a very level and rigid substrate for the tile to be installed on top of.  The fellow spreading the thinset in the photo is the master installer who can cut amazingly straight lines with a handheld saw.

Yesterday I started installing the lighting in Debbie's agility room.  I quickly ran out of something quite important to the process: 1/2" PVC conduit.  This meant another run to Home Depot, where I picked up the conduit and a couple of tools to make my installation go a bit quicker.  I'll be continuing that today, but first I'm going to assemble a scroll saw stand that arrived late yesterday afternoon.  Today I should get the stand for the miter saw, and the last of my power tools will finally be off the floor...

Kitten and balloons...

Kitten and balloons...  Worth it, if you can forgive the vertical video...

“...multi-purpose celestial bovine containment system.”

“...multi-purpose celestial bovine containment system.”  APOD has fun on April Fool's Day...

Joni Mitchell hospitalized...

Joni Mitchell hospitalized...  She's ok so far.  Somehow it has escaped my attention that Joni Mitchell is 71 years old.  I still think of her as the freckle-faced folk singer whose lyrics entranced me in the late '60s – and forever since then.  Her early albums have always been on my “Favorites” playlist...

Another crack in the wall...

Another crack in the wall...  The warmist wall, that is.  This is a big one...