Woodworking ⁽⁹¹⁾

Brian Bilbrey March 4, 2018

4 March 2018

A fairly calm work-week, until the big winds came. We didn't lose power at the office, nor at home. But plenty of blinking lights and brown-outs, at both locations. 'Round about 1 PM, Marcia called and said there were bits blowing off the house, and ... problems with the fence. There was plenty of coverage at the office, so I came home. The house issue was limited to some segments of the aluminum soffit under the second story eaves in front. The fence issues, however... On the southeast perimeter, some fencing had come loose from one post, and another post…

Brian Bilbrey February 25, 2018

25 February 2018

Okay, all good. Two three day weekends are now done. Eight days ago, I started a house cleaning binge on the Saturday morning, expecting to get the house caught up so that I could do some other projects and have some relax time over the ensuing days. About midway through, I got to the living room, and decided it was time to swap out a couple of the pictures on the wall with more recent acquisitions. One of them needed hanging wire, so I went down to the wood shop to paw through my stacks of stuff and find the…

Brian Bilbrey January 16, 2018

16 January 2018

G'day. Yep, I was busy. Sunday we did the shopping, then I started in on chores and such. About halfway through the afternoon, I saw an email that Annapolis Shakespeare Company needed a hand. It was the first load-in day for the set of the next play, and the expected carpenters had bailed on them. So I gathered some tools and went off to Annapolis to help out for several hours. I got home before 10, though... I went back the next day and gave a hand for another few hours. When I wrapped up my participation, all the walls…

Brian Bilbrey January 7, 2018

7 Jan 2018

First post! Of 2018. Lunacy continues in some quarters, in others, it's just bloody cold. Yes, yes, 3°F is winter-time heatwave/shorts weather... in Fairbanks. Here, it a nuisance. But we're due for some warming up this week, which I'm looking forward to. We got a lot done this weekend, including the dismantling and boxing of the holiday paraphernalia. That buys me ten and a half months until I have to pull those out of the garage attic again! I roasted a pound of Kenyan beans from Sweet Marias, after picking up the mess left from a stack of trim falling…

Brian Bilbrey December 3, 2017

3 December 2017

Oh, hey, we put up the festive artificial tree last weekend: Someone said that it had probably been up all year. When I pointed out that Marcia's hip surgery and recovery therefrom precluded much decoration last year, the reply was that it must have been up for a couple of years then. I then noted two things. First, we picked up this fake tree half-price in the after-season sales in January of this year. Secondly, if I had to have the Christmas stuff up year 'round, I'd go find someone with Ebola to cough on me. Bah Humbug. * *…