Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

[Bruce]

Yep, probably just wood shavings then. Jointers do make nice splintery bits unlike most other machines. My planer has forced ejection so the collector doesn't HAVE to be on, it will fill the top bag of the collector with air 20' away. The table saw, jointer and drum sander all need the "stuff" pulled out by the collector.

 

[Mike CHS]

I upgraded my jointer blades to a spiral cutterhead several years ago (actually before Teresa and I got married) so I get these nice fluffy shavings that works well in the chicken coops. I have the same cutterhead for my planer but I haven't wore out the stock of stock blades I had before I bought it so it still hasn't been installed. I went from working wood several hours a day before and after work to almost none after we started dating.

 

[Baymule]

A stick of wood lost it's allure up against Teresa.

 

[Bruce]

I suspect having a sheep farm to run also takes away from wood working time.

 

[Mike CHS]

Teresa's daughter called this afternoon as she was driving back to Reno from Seattle in some terrible weather so she wanted someone to be on the phone just in case. She had a business trip to Australia all of last week and they worked it out where the son in law was able to fly down and spend a couple of days playing tourist with her before meetings started.

 

[farmerjan]

That was great that your SIL could go down there and they could spend some time playing tourist. Hope they both enjoyed it. Australia and New Zealand are on my "bucket list". Had plans to go there ; on a "honeymoon trip" with a guy that I was going to marry, over 20 years ago. He had always wanted to go there, and we decided that once we got all our lives straightened out, then put together, that is where we were going. He dropped dead of a heart attack at 55......
But I still would like to go see it. That and some traveling to see some of the "west" .... all the typical things like the Grand Canyon, maybe the redwoods.....
Sometimes my son will call and talk when he is driving to stay more "awake" and all when driving too. I do not like to talk when the weather is bad, but I will when it is going along well, and to keep the mind more active.

 

[Mike CHS]

I love New Zealand but only had some travel through Australia so never had much time there. I have seen most of the western states but haven't gone to the Dakotas or Iowa. That may have been due to the lack of summer weather.

 

[Bruce]

Teresa's daughter called this afternoon as she was driving back to Reno from Seattle

They couldn't fly her in to a closer airport?? That is a heck of a drive even in good weather.

She had a business trip to Australia all of last week and they worked it out where the son in law was able to fly down and spend a couple of days playing tourist with her before meetings started.

DW had a business trip to the London England area MANY (like 25) years ago. Put DD1 up with Grandma and Grandpa and I went along. I played tourist while she and her business associate worked. We did some together tourist stuff on the weekend. DW about got us killed coming out of Stonehenge. In England it is "Look right, look left, the right again" before pulling out onto the road ... only she did it the American way.

 

[Mike CHS]

They couldn't fly her in to a closer airport?? That is a heck of a drive even in good weather.

The whole west coast was below minimums except for a couple of airports. Seattle at least got her home in a reasonable time.

 

[Mike CHS]

We are getting one heck of a light show coming in from the west. The TV is showing an almost solid red radar map and it looks like @AmberLops is right in the middle of it.

We got the power plug for the new TiVo and have that up and working. That is one convenience item you can do without but our TV is over the air and it seems the handful of shows that we watch are all on the same couple of nights. This way we can record them and watch at our leasure.