Creeker's Weekend Accomplishments.....

[Dennis Peacock]

3 Aug 2009

Good Morning,
I don't know about many of you but we've just experienced the coolest temps and the most rain in the month of July that I can ever remember!! I loved the month of July...60's in the mornings and ranged from 70's to upper 80's during the day with only a few days getting into the low 90's. Wonderful days!!!!

Progress is being made on the cup cake stands/wedding gift. I got my veneer in and the lady decided that she wanted some birds-eye maple veneer on the round platter part of the stands. Luckily, I had some given to me several years ago and now I'm flattening a few pieces to use. I have this week and next week to get this done as well as keep up with the day job and try to get a busted lawn mower fixed so my yard doesn't turn into a total hay field.

I did find out that my vacuum press is perfect for make wavy veneer nice and flat and today I get to put in the last 2 pieces of veneer to make it flat while I finish up the last several details on the 2 stands.

I'd like to thank Mark Cothren and Joe Meazle for coming to my rescue on wood that I needed to get this under control and for providing me some wood when I made a wrong calculation and mis-cut the wood I had on hand. Thanks guys!!!

Well, that's it for me....so what did YOU do this past weekend??

Best of weeks to you all.

[Karl Laustrup]

Morning Dennis.

We also had the coolest July on record for Wisconsin. Beat the old mark by several degrees. The only thing we lacked was rain. I agree, I enjoyed the cool evenings and low to mid 70's for highs.

Well, I finally got it done.
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Yep, finally finished the dust collection to my RAS & CMS on Saturday. The RAS dust collection works better than I expected, while the CMS side will need some tweaking. That will happen as I use it more and determine how to get it to suck up more of the saw dust.

I rewarded myself with golf on Sunday and then settled in to watch the race from Pocono [rained out, will watch it today] and the Buick Open from Michigan.

All in all a good weekend.

Hope ya'll's week is good and productive.

Karl

[Matt Meiser]

We had a big surprise BD party for my mom at our house on Saturday and had company from Friday evening until this morning. Talked a lot about the kitchen project and that's it.

[Greg Hines, MD]

I spent yesterday cleaning out the garage/shop. I am going to work on some built-in bookcases for the spare bedroom this fall, and need to get things arranged.

As nice as the temps have been outside, it was hot and humid in that garage.

Doc

[Dan Gill]

I put in several hours of cleaning, vacuuming, and sweeping. What fun!

[David Christopher]

I started cleaning the shop after beeing inspired by John Keetons shop pics but I went in the house to take a break and while catching up on SMC I got inspired by Ed Salee and went out and started making a box and not the shop looks worse than it did to start with...oh well maybe another day the shop will get clean

[Joe Mioux]

turned a bowl on Sunday, that was fun

[Jon Stinson]

I fixed a hole in my parents basement stair landing and bush hogged their land for them

[Jim Becker]

This weekend, I managed to survive my older daughter's 14th birthday, complete with setting up her new iPod Touch with parental controls. Also had a great ride on Elvis and survived a gonzo storm on Sunday that had an unbelievable amount of water fall from the sky in a very short period of time. I had a couple water-falls on my property!