Creeker's Past Week's Accomplishments

[Dennis Peacock]

30 May 2022

Greetings,
It's been a very busy week at the day job plus time in the shop this week. Bed rails are cut, routed, ledger boards glued on and ready for final sanding today. I had to take down a tree in my yard and that reminded me that I'm not 25 years old anymore!!! Stiff, sore, and tired from running my chainsaw, moving log sections, and hauling debris and limbs to my burn pile. Today, I pause to remember all those of my military brothers and sisters that gave the ultimate sacrifice for my freedoms. Now to get off here and take a buddy's trailer back to him so I can get back to working in the shop a bit today. I do have family coming over today for a family meal together, so I need to get with it.

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

Best of weeks to you all.

[Jim Becker]

Sounds like you're making progress on some projects, Dennis!

This past week largely focused on a minor renovation of our laundry room, taking advantage of the fact that our new machines are arriving this week...tomorrow, as a matter of fact. After we made sure our laundry needs for the week were handled, my younger daughter's SO helped me get the old washer and dryer out of the space...I then removed the really badly installed "wood" floor down to the original tile, painted the room, adjusted the plumbing and electrical positioning to better serve a stacked washer and dryer (which will make the room much easier to navigate), moved the dryer vent over 16" for the same reason, reinstalled two wall cabinets in their own stack and then put in a new floor. Costco just happened to have Mohawk flooring on sale and other than odds and ends for the plumbing/electrical/venting changes, that was the only thing I spent money on. Squeaked it out of two 18 sq ft boxes so that was essentially about $68 for the floor. Today, I made a threshold between the new floor and the foyer tile out of what was the oak stair tread that used to be at the bottom of the main stairs and using dyes and blending creatively, got the new threshold to more or less match the new flooring which has an aged/rough look.

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Please note that once the appliances are in, the one remaining thing to do here is to put in a work surface...that top on the drawered cabinet is temporary. Since the delivery folks have to lift and stack, I didn't want to block access.

And even more important than all that...I finally got my permit for the new shop building, so will be breaking ground at least for site prep in the next week or so, both with my own machine and with the cooperation of a contractor neighbor who just demolished the house next door and will be cleaning the lot to prepare it for sale. He wants/needs some of my "dirt" and I need the access from that lot's current driveway before he rips it up for stone trucks.

[Aaron Rosenthal]

It's the old story: beware of good deeds, they punish.
18 months ago I had a little left over Melamine faced board, and some 22" full extension slides, so I built a pull out shelf in one cavity of our kitchen cabinet. Wife was happy, said - when will you finish the rest.
winter over, I finally got back into the garage (unheated) and made & installed the rest of the cabinet's shelves. Double edged sword for her. With the space the shelving takes up, we had to "ahem" dispose of some stuff I've been complaining about for years cluttering the house.
She's happy, I'm happy. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

[Paul F Franklin]

Right before we left for Chicago a week and a half ago or so, I was trying to cut the grass. I was doing swaths around the pond when I came up to a heavy metal L bracket sitting in the previous swath. Well, that can't be good, I said to myself and shut down the blades to investigate. There was an ominous shudder as the blades slowed and then the mower died. I tried to restart it and nothing, no click, nothing. Had to get the yard mowed before we left, so I used my old craftsman lawn tractor, first to tow the ZT into the shed and then to cut the grass.

Finally got to look at the mower on Saturday. The bracket was the anti rotation stop for the PTO clutch for the blades. The bolt holding it on had sheared off. I'm not sure why nothing happened when the bracket first fell off, but when I disengaged the PTO, the clutch was free to whirl around, which ripped the lead wires out of the wiring harness, but not before yanking the harness hard enough to disconnect all the connectors leading to the control panel and do other misc. mischief. Took most of Saturday and half of Sunday to repair all the damage and get it running again.

Instead of rebuilding the blueberry enclosure as planned, Mary and I decided we want to move the berry bushes to a better location, and build a new enclosure there. We can't do that until they go dormant in the fall, so I did another round of fortifying the bird screening on the existing enclosure; hopefully it will be god enough to get through berry season this year. The plants are loaded with immature berries, so it won't be long before they start to ripen.

Smoked three racks of ribs and some baked potatoes on Sunday, so we had ribs on Sunday and Monday; the other two racks went in the freezer.

[Alan Lightstone]

Nice to see you're having a leisurely week, Jim.

We're all impressed. And tired watching you.

[Lisa Starr]

I'm still helping my son with his giant work bench for the 4' x 4' 3D Printer he's building. Hopefully, it will depart my shop this weekend and final assembly in his basement will occur next week. We've finished the framing on the deck DH and I are building and will continue with that in my "spare" time.

[Eugene Dixon]

Been vacay'ing at the beach. Last week worked on dust collection. Almost done.

[Ronnie Hurst]

Came up with a new design of my entryway benches and actually sold it (and got another order for one) on FB Marketplace.

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