Creeker's Past Week's Accomplishments.....

3 Jul 2023

Greetings and Happy Independence Day a tad early. I've recently added a couple of machines to my woodworking shop. These should be the last big machines I add to my shop space.
Grizzly Stroke Sander
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An old Delta cabinet saw
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Now to get all the stuff I need to provide power and dust collection for both machines. Now that it stays over 100 degrees F in my shop, I get to have time to plan things out and get all the parts I need before the weather cools off so I can work in my shop again.

That's it for me, so what did YOU do this past week?

Best of weeks to you all.

my shop use to be hot in summer. then mr cool showed up....

Nice acquisitions, Dennis!

We had house guests for most of last week, so there really wasn't any time in the shop. There will be a little this week, however. A close friend discovered that his table saw, um...sucks...and can't cut things square no matter what he tries, so he's coming over for a few hours to work on completing the curbside book library that I did some CNC engraving on the week before last as he needs to deliver it later this week when he drops off his grandkids with his son a few hours west of here. I also have a small project in the works for a wall organizer for Oliver's leashes and harnesses (the dog..) so we can get them off my nice English brown oak hall table for once and for all. :) :D Still working on the design for a built-in buffet and uppers for our eating area and seriously starting to think about a new vanity for the master bath. Both of these projects really need to get done.

Spent a couple days at the beach with wife and couple of other ladies. Did very little cooking while there this time. Finished installing some blocking to support pipes in outdoor shower. Cut the grass at beach house (not mine.) Got some hydranias repotted as they had out grown the 1 gallon pots I put them in in spring. These were from cutting taken last summer. Too hot to do much outside, and today went into shop and air cleaner was running due to excessive heat.

Slowly chipping away at laundry table project, but lost several days of potential shop time as contractor came to install a new whole house backup generator and I had to move a bunch of stuff out of the way so they could do the required electrical and gas work. Generator install went pretty smoothly with one hiccup. One of the hex recess bolts securing the incoming feed to the main 200 amp breaker had the hex recess pretty much stripped out and the electrician couldn't get it loose at all. Fortunately, (long story) I had a new main breaker for the panel in my "stuff", so he was able to just swap out the breaker. All told, the two guys were here for 11 hours but did a wonderful job that exceeded my very picky standards. Now that the generator is installed, we'll probably never have another outage, but that would be fine with me. The gas company still has to come and supersize the gas meter, but the generator will run on the old meter as long as the load isn't maxed out. It'll be at least another month before the gas company will do the meter, they are not very speedy.

My wife's last day of work was Friday, so she has joined the retiree crowd, finally! She's already gotten more done in her garden and other projects in a few days than she did so far the rest of this year. She'll also be taking over some of the chores I've been doing, like grocery shopping and most of the cooking; that will free up some time for moi (which I will try not to use up on more pickleball!)

I did some more work on a couple of pine wall cabinets for work, and made one of those bean bag toss games with the 6 holes for our community BBQ in a couple of weeks.

It was also Canada Day on Saturday, however we had family over on Monday as it was the observed day for the holiday.

Happy July 4, hope you're all having good weather and lots of fun...........Rod.

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Originally Posted by Paul F Franklin

My wife's last day of work was Friday, so she has joined the retiree crowd, finally!

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Professor Dr. SWMBO completed her last class teaching a week and a half ago and is effectively retired, although she has a couple of Masters students to guide until she officially is retired at the end of the day 31 August. Not much changes here, however, as her medical issues are what they are. She's spending a "yuge" amount of time with Oliver the dog and that's really good for her.

Jim, please pass my best wishes on to your wife, retiring with a dog is the best.

Regards, Rod.

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Originally Posted by Jim Becker

Professor Dr. SWMBO completed her last class teaching a week and a half ago and is effectively retired, although she has a couple of Masters students to guide until she officially is retired at the end of the day 31 August. Not much changes here, however, as her medical issues are what they are. She's spending a "yuge" amount of time with Oliver the dog and that's really good for her.

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LOL Jim, Mary has an ND student who has been dragging her feet on doing her final defense, so Mary is still working with her for another week or so. Pro Bono at this point of course. Teaching (at whatever level) is about the only profession I can think of where practitioners are dedicated enough to work for free to help out one of their students.

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Originally Posted by Paul F Franklin

LOL Jim, Mary has an ND student who has been dragging her feet on doing her final defense, so Mary is still working with her for another week or so. Pro Bono at this point of course. Teaching (at whatever level) is about the only profession I can think of where practitioners are dedicated enough to work for free to help out one of their students.

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The Professor is still on payroll through the end of August, so at least the minimal work she needs to do is compensated. There may be times when she has further contact with students or is consulted as an Emeritus, but that will likely be minimal. All the masters and doctoral defenses she was involved in are completed. Meanwhile, we're starting the "benefits transition" dance which is complicated in that post-retirement, our daughter (age 24) can no longer be covered and it's likely more cost effective for me to transition to Medicare in some form as premium subsidies disappear with retirement, too. Retirement is absolutely wonderful, but it does come with some "fun", too...

Turned this:

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Into the trim on this:

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We have a local wood supplier that sells kiln dried wood of whatever he can pick up. This time it was sourgum.

It’s quite a bit of work going from rough cut wood to finished product, but it’s a lot more fun. As I don’t know what he will have in stock it’s always an adventure to see how the wood turns out.