My apologies to my somewhat faithful readers – I’ve been juggling, and as usual the blog falls first.

I’ve been cutting spline:

Pardon the fuzzy focus – the camera on the phone works well as long you don’t want to see detail. Yet another reason to ditch the Neurotic and go back to the Gravity 2.

I’ve also been working on outlines for about thirteen books of the Bible to be presented at the retreat at the end of the month. If I get enough interest, I will share them (and the others from the retreat) once I get back from the retreat.

It’s getting late again – once again running out of time int he day. I thought maybe once I became employed, I wouldn’t be as busy as I was when I was unemployed – that didn’t work out.

Chat ya later…

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Chiropractor. Arrange for MEG to be at a sitter. Purchase the right kind of plywood for a project. Close one account. Cut the ply for the project. Pick up MEG from the sitter. And TMBWitW put one last item on the list last night – “Buy your wife a new car (1967 Mustang convertible)”.

That last one doesn’t look like it’s going to be happening any time soon!

Happy Birthday to my little brother, BK – 44 today.

Oh, and a big ol’ (belated) Happy Birthday to that old scoundrel, Larry.

Chat ya later…

Thank you for stopping by, In GOD We Trust, God bless you all, don’t buy or breed cats or dogs while homeless pets die (spay, neuter & adopt a pet, one by one, until there are none), Wear Red on Fridays, and support Warriors for Innocence!

Really?

I had to bring the doors back to the shop; two of the door frames on this historic bungalow are nowhere near straight, true and plumb. OK, maybe plumb, but not straight or true. So, trim here, reshape there, done. The small pair is going on a new door frame, so it is STP, but there is less reveal so I had to set the hinges in further than I had them; since they were routed in to match the 1/2″ thickness of the door jamb, I had to route them a bit more. I’ll be going back Sunday afternoon to install them.

That’s not what I’m saying “Really?” about.

It’s this:

One hundred and nineteen. Degrees. Fahrenheit. On the cool side of the house…

Well, the last time I chatted with ya’ll about brakes I was pretty sure I was going to have to replace mine on the SUV after having replaced the ones on TMBWitW’s Camry.

You are looking at what was almost a complete weld-up of the right front inner pad to the rotor. Wednesday morning I replaced the right front pads; that was a comedy of errors in itself. First, I couldn’t find my big sockets. Fine, I’ll use my big wrenches instead. All the standard wrenches weren’t quite fitting right. The closest I came was with the 7/8 – the 13/16 was just a tad small, and the 7/8 was actually too large. I didn’t have a 27/32, or I would have been fine. I tried using an adjustable knuckle buster, but you can imagine how THAT turned out. So, I carefully measured the bolt I was attacking and went to Checker to purchase a 21 mm box/open end wrench. When I got back, it turns out I had measured wrong. It was a 22 mm bolt. Back to Checker, buy the right wrench, and finally, about an hour and a half after starting on this twenty minute job, I got the caliper off the rotor, only to find the item pictured above. The back side of the rotor looks like the surface of the moon. I had to get to work, so I put the new pads on, buttoned up the right front, and promised the left front I would get to it soon.

“Soon” turned out to be this morning. At least there was nothing bad with the left front. Only took me about twenty minutes to do the deed. Next week I’ll be doing the back brakes, and I have to squeeze in the time to get the right front rotor turned before I completely ruin the new pads.

Even as I take a minute to write this, I’ve just gotten back from the dentist (one stubborn cavity needed to be redone) and I am making preparations to go to a friends house and install the screen doors that I built. I’ll take pictures and post them later, I promise.

If I don’t talk with you before then, have a safe weekend and stay hydrated. I’m staring 117 in the face with some high humidity – it’s usually raining by this time of the year, but the weather has been weird lately. California stole our rain last night.

Chat ya later…

Thank you for stopping by, In GOD We Trust, God bless you all, don’t buy or breed cats or dogs while homeless pets die (spay, neuter & adopt a pet, one by one, until there are none), Wear Red on Fridays, and support Warriors for Innocence!

(apologies to those of you who are not fans of “Madagascar” – I’ve heard that line way too many times recently)

Good show this morning at The O Word. At least, I think it was a good show. Go give it a listen and let me know what you think…

I had mentioned a while ago about getting the Hope Chest (the Project That Will Not Leave) to the point where the customer’s color choice is needed. Here are the pictures – first, a series of close-ups showing the detail of the front panel (remember that there is no color on the walnut, and walnut varies from bone white to a dark ash color), click to enlarge:

This one shows the new drawer I had to build, and the veneer laid out to put on the front of the bottom rail and drawer front:

View of the bottom, showing the new drawer:

And, finally, a view of the full face:

Chat ya later…

Thank you for stopping by, In GOD We Trust, God bless you all, don’t buy or breed cats or dogs while homeless pets die (spay, neuter & adopt a pet, one by one, until there are none), Wear Red on Fridays, and support Warriors for Innocence!