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That pain would lead to pleasure?
Did she understand it when they said
That a man must break his back
To earn his day of leisure?
Will she still believe it when he's dead?
those simple lines from a beatle song convinced me.
true story: i got a call a few weeks ago from the emergency switchboard telling me to call a condo owner back because his kid was locked in a bedroom. wtf?
that's pretty much what i hated most about the job. dealing with pinheads.
Now you can be the one to bitch and moan about all kinds of stuff. Why are there so many kids on the road in the middle of the day? Why is this coffee too hot/cold? Why are you mumbling? The possibilities are endless. I'm sure from your time in the Navy, you turned bitching and moaning into an art form. Time for art class to begin.
E N J O Y your retirement!
you can see the murder weapon on the right. the only power source is a power strip kind of behind the desk, and that's plugged in to the only outlet in this part of the room and that's to my left as i'm sitting at the bench. i needed to find a way to get it closer to the power source and that required some relocating and rearranging. but now i think i've got it. i decided to cover the entire area under glass top with black construction paper. when i took the glasstop off to wash it and put the new black paper down it was disgusting because around six months ago i spilled quite a bit of a/i and that was a bitch to get cleaned up. anyway, here's what i ended up with:
yesterday i started on that shelving unit to my right, and i still have quite a way to go to finish that up.
after all that i played with a few castings. it felt to be back down there after four months...
now if i can just keep it that way til the sawmill comes.
Terry
Congrats on the retirement, hope you still find enough time to share some with us,
all that spare time you think you have will get eaten up real quick. Enjoy !!
fingers crossed....
I found that I needed an extra space while building the sawmill because of the shear size. Set up a STURDY side table for the task.
we brought molly home on january 5. about two weeks before then we had a big windstorm that blew 4 fence panels on the neighbor's fence down. that's the fence on the east side of our yard. it was quite a dilemma at the time, because we couldn't let molly outside. we house trained with training pads, and that only took about a week. in the meantime i bought a roll of 4' high snow fence and stapled it to his posts, just so molly wouldn't go into his yard. anyway, to make a long story short, molly hadn't pooped outside once in her life. now that i'm retired it's my job to train her to use the outside as her bathroom, rather than our kitchen.. i willingly accepted the task. so here's my plan: at 8am she gets put into her crate, where she stays for 90 minutes. then i put her on the leash and we go outside for 15 minutes. then its back in the crate. yesterday was day three of this plan. She pooped outside yesterday, and i was crying sweet tears of joy! the byproduct of this program is 90 minutes of bench time, a 15 minute break, and 90 more minutes of bench time so i'm loving it!
i worked on a bunch of details yesterday, and i also got the cat back together.
i was never happy with how the bates turned out, so this afternoon i'm gonna get started on rebuilding the bates.
Looking forward to seeing the rebuild on the Bates.
Terry
and a couple of after shots:
i added some sculptamold along the back side too because i wasn't happy with the terrain.
the sculptamold won't be fully set up for a few days cuz it's pretty thick in the back, but once it is, i'll get started on redoing the scenery in that lower area so i can start to place the cat where it belongs.
Cant wait to see the updated scenery/landforms.
Sometimes a step back can be a big delay(mentally), so happy to see you just went ahead and redid what you thought you needed to.
Keep that ball rolling and keep up the great work.