Day EightyEight: The day of rest... Hahaahaa... ya, can't see that happening. I made breaky for the family then we all headed back outside. Heather and Lawson went for their morning run with plans to stop at the Cozy and grab a coffee and hot chocolate to go... no dice... didn't look to be open so they headed home to regroup and make other plans. I returned to the garage determined to get that Lathe working. The table it came with was crap and in moving up here I tore it all apart and left most of it down south so making a new table for it was today's task. Fortunately the pile of wood I offered to someone to make a dog house from didn't match their energy level so I have a supply of salvage wood... now normally I don't used wood like that either, far too much work... but I'm starting to take a liking to the look. I pulled a few select pieces from the pile and took them to the basement for a little cleaning and cutting. All went rather well, the wood looks good, I got all but a few of the smaller nails out (I didn't see them, not that I couldn't get them out) and I cut it to the sizes I needed... took out the sander and knocked off a few corners where the wood was splintering, which looks kinda cool all on it's own, definitely adds to the aesthetics of the piece... now here's what I learned today about reclaimed lumber... I had to put a bolt sticking up out of the one piece to bolt the Lathe down to... I cut a pocket, dropped a carriage bolt in place and cut another piece of wood to go over it and hold it in place, put some glue on it, tapped it in, ran it through the thickness planer to level it off and then set it aside to dry... the problem became apparent at that point... where the hell was all this glue coming from,,, it was getting on my hands.... it was getting on my table saw... it was getting on the leg of the stand I was building... damn, cleaned it off but it was still getting all over everything... FUCKING HOLES!!! It was like a driller hitting a flooded section of the mine while drilling from below... the nail holes from the reclaimed wood were oozing glue from the pocket I had made for the bolt. DOH!!! And of course it's coming out both sides so I just can't lie it down and let it dry... had to fill the holes... pushed little pieces of paper towel in the ones on the back and turned that side down until it dries. Problem solved. Now to clean up the glue again... honest I don't think I used as much glue as actually came out. A proper kill switch and I should be good to go now. At some point in the day while I fought with wood... Lawson and Heather went back out to make up for the coffee and hot chocolate that didn't happen... they went to the corner store and grabbed an ice cream to go. After all it warmed up from 6 deg C during their run to about 11 deg C, so that's almost like summer time here so ice cream was in order. Also at some point in there Heather fed me a tuna sandwich... the day went painfully slow... lots of breaks, sitting doing nothing while waiting for another moment of strength to carry on... prepping and screwing together 2 pieces of wood took all day... glad I'm not getting paid piece work, I would owe someone else money at the rate I was going. LOL Our dinner plans involved a charcuterie plate... Heather dug out the last jar of Pickled Eggplant that I made at the start of this COVID Crisis of 2020... some Brie and other cheeses, summer sausage, pepperoni (you make do sometimes with what's available), some toasted sliced bun bits... oh and nachos, Nachos??? yes... we don't eat them anymore... very bad for us... however Heather made some (not out of things that are bad for us) and they weren't half bad... almost like nachos... take out the taco flavour and add something else and you might be able to make nice crackers out of them too... (ya, crackers is another thing we don't really see anymore). Late breakfast, late lunch, late dinner = early bed time. Everyone played a few games and fell to sleep.
Melanie T
mmmm ice cream
