Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Blustery
Strange windy day. We have lost power 4 times in the last 24 hours. This isn’t a flicker; it’s been doing that all day but a snap and gone kind of thing. No three tries, just gone. About 90 seconds after the power dies a gust of wind will roar past the house shaking it. Wind has broken the wire from the antenna and bent the mast so no TV either. Now I am not sure I can lower the thing to the ground to fix it (the mast telescopes). I will worry about that some day w/o sheets of freezing rain. Did some work on the house, I put up a shelf. Aren’t I handy? It has just been so long since I have written about anything house related on this house themed blog so I thought I had better call attention to it.
I haven’t been sitting on my butt mind you, I wired up lights for a power chair (see my other ‘hosting’ blog) and constructed a rather crapy bunny hutch. I also built this table:
It has a natural edge on one side and a finished edge on the other. Trouble is controlling the warp on a 1-inch thick, 24-inch wide slab of maple. Since it has come inside one leg has been slowly lifting off the floor. We are at ¼ and climbing last time I checked. I know the wood is dry and I let it acclimatize in the shop for 2 months so it should be more than good but there you have it. I think it was bringing it inside where it is warm, just warpage and such. Maybe if I can get M to paint one of her erotic murals on top no one will notice.
I haven’t been sitting on my butt mind you, I wired up lights for a power chair (see my other ‘hosting’ blog) and constructed a rather crapy bunny hutch. I also built this table:
It has a natural edge on one side and a finished edge on the other. Trouble is controlling the warp on a 1-inch thick, 24-inch wide slab of maple. Since it has come inside one leg has been slowly lifting off the floor. We are at ¼ and climbing last time I checked. I know the wood is dry and I let it acclimatize in the shop for 2 months so it should be more than good but there you have it. I think it was bringing it inside where it is warm, just warpage and such. Maybe if I can get M to paint one of her erotic murals on top no one will notice.
