Creekers Weekend Accomplishments....

[Dennis Peacock]

Good Morning
22 Oct 2007 and raining

Well, I have good news and that is.....the kitchen table is finished and is now sitting in my house to cure for 1 week before I deliver it to my customer. The LOML saw it all put together last night and said "if we only had 4 in our family? I'd LOVE to have a table just like that." Well, at least I now know she likes it well enough to want one like it.

Now I'm just working on getting the customers chairs stained and shot with lacquer. Staining is finished and I've started the lacquer spraying. I guess if I'm going to shoot any lacquer today that I'll have to add some "retarder" to it so it won't "blush". Either way, I should have her chairs done this week and deliver the chairs and her table next week!! YEA!!!!

My toughest battle in the past 7 days has been my giving up tobacco. Today marks 1 week since I've had any tobacco at all. I've chewed and dipped tobacco since I was 12 years old and here I am 36 years later quitting for the 1st time in MANY years. What makes it even harder is that I "really" enjoy the flavor and pleasure I got from it. Now I'm just an old grouch trying to make it through yet another tobacco-less day.

I'm making some nice progress on things and I'd like to know:

What dod YOU do this past weekend?????

Best of weeks to you all.

[Art Mulder]

Went "back home" to help my dad celebrate his 80th birthday. Had a nice luncheon out at The Mandarin (large nice chinese buffet place.)

His birthday is actually at the end of the month, but by then they'll be getting packed to go down to Panama City Beach FL for a few weeks, as they do most falls for the past number of years. I'm jealous. :p

As we drove home I said to my wife that I can't hope for much more than for us to be as healthy and active as my folks are, when we get to be that age.

[Ken Fitzgerald]

Friday evening we attended a celebration dinner for my recently departed, dear elk hunting buddy Larry. A lot of stories were told and I was asked to speak. I told one short story to get some laughs and then I started a story that started in 1960 in Craig Colorado and ended in 1985 in Idaho. And yes it was an elk hunting story with Larry coming in at the end. I had to stop a couple of times to steel myself. If you've never shot craps with Mother Nature in late October at an elevation of 7,000 feet with 5 of the finest and toughest people you have ever met, you have my sympathies!

While driving home I made a right turn from one major thoroughfare to another and had a severe vertigo attack. I was able to pull over to the side of the road safely and the LOML took over the driving duties.

It was late last night before I got to feeling good again.

Not much accomplished this weekend.

[jeremy levine]

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[Aaron Frank]

I arrived home from work on Friday evening to find a large blue box on my porch. Saturday morning I wrestled it down into the basement and within 30 minutes my new Bosch 4410L was up and runing. (It was perfectly tuned right out of the box, BTW) I have to thank 'creeker Chris Jenkins for being so prompt with the shipping. It seems he had an extra one just lying around. :D Thanks Chris!!

By mid afternoon, I'd hung crown in two rooms,of the house.

Just to prove it really happened...

Aaron

[Al Willits]

Went to the walleye tourney Sat and caught a 26 pounder, unfortunately it was a catfish and although on a light walleye rig it was a great battle, (fishing partner said over 35 mins) it didn't mean anything other than the joy of catch and release the biggest catfish I ever caught.

Few walleyes but not enough to place, but considering the weather was perfect, it was a enjoyable return into tournament fishing and can't wait till next time.

Sunday was repair the driveway gate, clean the garage a bit and recover from Sat.

Nice weekend overall.

Al

[Nancy Laird]

Good Monday, everyone. We had a great weekend. Left early Friday morning headed to Phoenix. Had a shop visit with Creeker Scott Whiting at Scott's Sharpening Service in Glendale on Friday afternoon; nice dinner with our friends; Saturday half-day with Mike Vickery, Kevin McPeek, Jason Clark, et al at Mike's turning gathering in Gilbert (http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?t=67559); then had a real family moment....

LOML's 30-year-old daughter joined us for the afternoon and we were able to spend some good time with her for the first time in several years (it appears that the estrangement is over:) ). Another nice evening with our friends and hosts, and home on Sunday in a BIG wind. And got home to find about three new laser orders waiting---gonna be a busy week.

It seems that winter has come to the high desert of New Mexico - the temp at my house at 6:30 a.m. was 33 degrees:eek: , and there were freeze warnings for the valley (500 feet below us) for overnight. That BIG wind that blew us home from Arizona also brought cold weather with it.

Have a good week, everyone.

Nancy (60 days)

[Steve Busey]

Spent Fri & Sat working with a small team on a handicap accessible home addition for a rural Tennessee family who's father has suffered a stroke, and has difficulty getting in, out and around their current home. We framed in and decked a 26' x 27' floor, added a wall to two others in another already completed floor section, and got 6 roof trusses up before we lost daylight.

[Matt Meiser]

We went camping for the final weekend of the season. I love to go in the fall and this is the second year we've done three weekends in October. Now will be time to get going on some woodworking projects again as I have 1-2 to get done before Christmas.

[Jay Kilpatrick]

Good Morning
22 Oct 2007 and raining

My toughest battle in the past 7 days has been my giving up tobacco. Today marks 1 week since I've had any tobacco at all.

What dod YOU do this past weekend?????

Best of weeks to you all.

Congrats Dennis, you're at least past the nicotine, now for the continuous battle with cravings, triggers, and just good memories associated with the habit (because you'll forget most of the crappy ones). Funny, I'm on my 21st day of quitting after spending the last 17 years (minus one year where I did quit previously) using dip (da Bear and Cope). So cheers and good on ya mate... you are not alone, and you are not the only one who craves it every 5 minutes of every waking hour. If you want to read some amusing dialogue on the subject, go to killthecan.org. There's a whole bunch of other guys like you and me, and the discourse is less than professional and funny as all get out sometimes.

Cheers! ~Jay

[David Duke]

As I had hoped, I enjoyed a "nothing planned" weekend, seems like I may have maybe 2 of these a year. I did however start the re-finishing of a couple of rockers and swing for my boys, and then went to my neighbors wedding Saturday. The LOML and I baby sat our grandson Saturday night and our son and DIL came over for lunch Sunday.........overall a GREAT weekend!!!!

[Karl Laustrup]

Not sure if I should be telling y'all this or not.

My weekend started out doing some refinish sanding on a walnut, hanging, china cupboard/display. It is my moms and is nearing 50 years old. Once finished it will go a wall in the house.

Now here's the part your all probably gonna laugh at. :o Sunday I put up our Christmas lights. Well, the ones under the eaves anyway. Still got some more to put up at a later date, but those can all be done on the ground, no ladder needed.

See it was 70 degrees and sunny. :) My little pea brain said "Do you want to put up Christmas lights today when it's nice or wait until around Thanksgiving and take your chances with the weather?" Pea brain said TODAY dummy. I think I was pretty smart. :cool: Now I got to figure out if I can leave the lights up until May? :confused: ;) :D

Glad you're feeling better Ken.

Karl

[Al Willits]

Geeze Karl, already??????
Don't suppose you'd want to come put ours up would ya?

I thought it was required to be about 28 degree's, sleeting, snowing, rainning, windy, and generally not very nice out when you put that stuff up????

Don't sweat it kid, the guy down the block put his lights up about 15 years ago and just leaves them off during the summer, made the mistake of nailing them to the eves.... he says.:D

Al

[Greg Muller]

I had a really good weekend! I went over to fellow-creeker Lester Gillett's workshop and took his Powermatic 54A off his hands. It looks great in my shop-to-be right next to the space where my future planer will be...:D

Then I dropped off a huge load of outgrown kids clothes to Big Brother/Big Sisters down the road. Good for some heaven points and earthly tax deductions.

Afterwards, I gave the LOML a backrub and...oops, better stop right there...:D :D :D

[Nancy Laird]

Now here's the part your all probably gonna laugh at. :o Sunday I put up our Christmas lights. Well, the ones under the eaves anyway. Still got some more to put up at a later date, but those can all be done on the ground, no ladder needed.

See it was 70 degrees and sunny. :) My little pea brain said "Do you want to put up Christmas lights today when it's nice or wait until around Thanksgiving and take your chances with the weather?" Pea brain said TODAY dummy. I think I was pretty smart. :cool: Now I got to figure out if I can leave the lights up until May? :confused: ;) :D Karl


Karl, you are a sick man---it isn't Halloween yet!!!:eek:

Yes, I see your logic, but even in Minnesota in November you have days that aren't cold/blustery/rainy/snowy, I guess.

But I guess I can't talk -- the last year we were in Virginia, we didn't take the Christmas lights down off the house until we were packing up to move---in August. I think that was also the year that my sister sent our gifts to us in August!!

Nancy (60 days)

[Lester Gillett]

Had a good weekend also. Meet Greg Muller and as he said took my Powermatic 54a as i am going to buy a 10" joint later on. Turned a
snake pen and cut up 130 pen blanks for our freedom pen turning day.

Lester

[Dan Barr]

I commend you on quitting. that first few weeks is the toughest. irritable and hungry. once you get past that first month, you'll be alright. just have plenty of healthy snacks around and TAKE DEEP BREATHS!!! anytime you feel the urge, just take a deep breath.

Apples and gum and focusing on work helped me. I think i got more work done per hour right after i quit than any other time. amazing how i could have so much energy.

v/r

dan :)

[Jim Becker]

Well, Dennis...I pretty much did what I expected I'd do. Backfilled the addition foundation on the "pond and patio" side as the big machine that was here on Thursday couldn't access that area. Did the karate and swimming lessons duty at YMCA with the girls and then got back in the addition to finish pre-wiring for the home theater speakers in both the multi-purpose room and the new master bedroom. I also put in the necessary blocking for the LCD screen mounts. I also picked up the younger from a play date at a friend's ENORMOUS house. (they even had a half-gymnasium just off the family room that was bigger than my hole original house....) That was Saturday.

Sunday, I finished cleaning up the big pile of dirt, err...mud...in the driveway that was left over from backfilling and spread more stone to cut down on the mud being tracked into the house. Headed to the 'depot for some supplied and then I then dug a trench and installed a NM electrical conduit from the addition to near the pump house on the pond. Part of that involved digging with a hand trowel due to proximity of the pond to the limestone wall I was following. Backfilled all that when I was done.

And that brings me to the next activity...heading to the YMCA for an hour's swim and a hot shower. The hot water system (only a year and a half old) in the existing house sprung a major internal leak very early Saturday morning and I had to kill it completely to avoid flooding the basement (more) with fresh well water. Called the plumber. Supplier closed until Monday morning and it's a special item...50 gallon "shorty" direct power vent unit due to the low ceiling. Fortunately, under warranty. Except for the labor, of course. No hot water after digging trenches and pulling wires is not a good thing...

Oh, and I was in the shop...to pick up this tool and that tool and this fastener, etc., for the other work I was doing. No woodworking, however, outside of cutting a few piece of two-by at the CMS.

[Danny Thompson]

Finished the Cornhole Boards in time for our Halloween party.

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[Rob Mathis]

Started by putting in 2 new toilets in the bathrooms, base trim, caulk. That was Saturday. Then Sunday I made a mock-up out of MDF of a fire place mantle shelf. It is in place and looks like it will workout well. I am going to make the shelf out of Zebrawood. Oh and how could I forget I also mowed the yard in my spare time.

[Leland Berry]

Dennis-Still raining isn't it ? I'm in Benton AR and only half finished with
installing 230 lft of red cedar fence-Looks like no progress today either.
Last weekend I tackled jointer knives swap-out for the first time-wheeew !-Got to be a better way.. Yesterday, I discovered a roof leak
directly above 2, 9ft x 10" pces of black walnut I've been saving -they
are now in my kitchen.--Good luck on the tobacco challange---Lee B

[Henk Marais]

I arrived home from work on Friday evening to find a large blue box on my porch. Saturday morning I wrestled it down into the basement and within 30 minutes my new Bosch 4410L was up and runing. (It was perfectly tuned right out of the box, BTW) I have to thank 'creeker Chris Jenkins for being so prompt with the shipping. It seems he had an extra one just lying around. :D Thanks Chris!!

By mid afternoon, I'd hung crown in two rooms,of the house.

Just to prove it really happened...

Aaron


The saw does not prove the crowns happened;) .

[Aaron Frank]

The saw does not prove the crowns happened;) .

Henk, you got me. Though you can see that it has been used, there's sawdust all over it. I have another room to do this weekend, so I'll try and take some pics of all three and post them in next week's accomplishments.

I am really psyched about the saw though. :D It cuts like a dream.

Aaron