Rick Potter
06-25-2012, 8:57 PM
My son and his wife, three kids, two cars, and a Rotweiler move in to our place this weekend. Long story, the usual foreclosure etc. Now note that we already have a daughter and her two teen age girls living here.
Fortunately, we have a large house, since we added a granny flat for our own use as we age gracefully. The daughter lives in there now, and teaches dyslexic kids there full time. This leaves the shop. I built an office, otherwise known as 'the hideout', which I am emptying so they can fit a bed. sofa, and chairs in there. The 12 yr. old grandaughter will sleep on the sofa, parents on the bed. In the shop proper, we are clearing an area for the two boys, 10 and 13 to sleep in. The Rotweiler gets caged, because the students take breaks all day in the back yard, and their parents would implode if he were loose.
So this leaves me with all the tools that were in the tool corral, looking for a space, which right now was my assembly area. I am fortunate to have a good size shop, but it is full of tools and a lot of storage. Tools looking around for a place to park are a Shopsmith, a SuperShop, two Delta bandsaws, my Laguna mortiser, an RBI planer/molder, Shopsmith dust collector, and three scroll saws, along with carts, and smaller tools. Who knew that being a tool junkie would come back to bite me?
Six months, we are told. We will see if they are tough enough to make it that long. Scratch that, it's me I wonder about. I forsee a lot of microwavin' goin' on, plus a spike in paper plate sales. Did I mention I haven't finished the kitchen yet?
Rick Potter
Fortunately, we have a large house, since we added a granny flat for our own use as we age gracefully. The daughter lives in there now, and teaches dyslexic kids there full time. This leaves the shop. I built an office, otherwise known as 'the hideout', which I am emptying so they can fit a bed. sofa, and chairs in there. The 12 yr. old grandaughter will sleep on the sofa, parents on the bed. In the shop proper, we are clearing an area for the two boys, 10 and 13 to sleep in. The Rotweiler gets caged, because the students take breaks all day in the back yard, and their parents would implode if he were loose.
So this leaves me with all the tools that were in the tool corral, looking for a space, which right now was my assembly area. I am fortunate to have a good size shop, but it is full of tools and a lot of storage. Tools looking around for a place to park are a Shopsmith, a SuperShop, two Delta bandsaws, my Laguna mortiser, an RBI planer/molder, Shopsmith dust collector, and three scroll saws, along with carts, and smaller tools. Who knew that being a tool junkie would come back to bite me?
Six months, we are told. We will see if they are tough enough to make it that long. Scratch that, it's me I wonder about. I forsee a lot of microwavin' goin' on, plus a spike in paper plate sales. Did I mention I haven't finished the kitchen yet?
Rick Potter