From: clare@snyder.on.ca   
      
   On Sat, 10 Jan 2026 22:15:46 -0600, Snag  wrote:   
      
   >On 1/10/2026 5:32 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:   
   >> Yeah I'm talking to me too.   
   >>   
   >> I took almost two weeks off from customer jobs around the holidays.  At   
   >> first because I wasn't feeling tip top, and then I decided I was just   
   >> going to work on things I wanted to work on.  I started working on most   
   >> of them, and accomplished none of them.  There kept being some little   
   >> thing I needed.  At one point I was just going to throw the front seat   
   >> pedestal in my bass boat and go fishing, but the bolts I ordered were to   
   >> short.  Sigh!.  Pretty sad when I can't even accomplish going fishing.   
   >>   
   >> Show me how productive you have been for the last few weeks.  Make me   
   >> feel bad.  LOL.   
   >>   
   >> Today I made a mold for a customer, but that doesn't really count.  I do   
   >> that everyday.   
   >>   
   >   
   >   Last Wednesday I picked up a load of treated lumber . Yesterday and   
   >today I used that lumber to build a new front porch - I already had the   
   >roof built - on our house . The original started life as a hallway from   
   >the camper to the new living room when I started construction of the   
   >house , and it was in pretty sad condition . I still have a couple of   
   >deck boards to fit and install , and I'll be building railings along 2   
   >sides and a short section on a third .   
   >   In other news , I'm working on some parts for a sawmill . It uses   
   >hydraulics and the design of the control lever pivot mounts is weak .   
   >I'm modifying the new pivot mounts to make them stronger .   
      
      
    I've been puttering away at building a rack to hang my bicycles to   
   take up less dloor space in the garage. Building it out of "free angle   
   iron" scavenged from bed frames gathered off the curb over the last   
   year - whick means doing all the cutting with the "death wheel" rather   
   than risking the band saw blades.   
   It's been tiring my back significantly so I only get a couple hours in   
   at a time. 15 months post surgery - the recovery has gone well, but it   
   lets me know when I attempt too much!!!!   
      
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