A Wonderful Invention

My chop saw.  Or miter saw:

For years I've been toting my skill saw around the garage
It's heavy and it's awkward.  Hmmmmm.

Why did Larry add that brace at the bottom of the saw stand to just one side?

My dad had a motto.  Actually he had several.  One he used often on us boys was, "The wheel is a wonderful invention."  I thought of this as I was bent over trying to lift the saw to move it.  It's clunky and it's awkward.  So I added a brace to one side and now I can easily move it with my hand truck.

Toolbox Organization

A while back I received some toolbox foam organizers.

These are very cool.  One thing that I like about them is that you can instantly tell if a tool is missing.  Sometimes I leave things lying around and forget to put them back.  If I open the drawer and one is missing I go searching to find it and put it away.

That's all very cool and useful.  Looks cool too!  Well, except for the things that have accumulated since I carved out the spaces for the existing tools.  Some tools are happy and some are still all jumbled up.  Oh well.

But I made a mistake.

Can you see the mistake?  Yep, every time I slam the drawer closed the pointy things slide out of their nicely carved homes and migrate towards the back of the drawer.  My nice, neat mind liked the look of all the pointy things sort of facing up.  Or away.  But I should have put them in the other way.  That way the butt ends would prevent the migration, which doesn't happen to the screwdrivers and pliers.  Who knew?

Now I could just take out the foam and turn it around and that would solve the migration problem, but then the chisels would be in the back of the drawer.  Harder to reach.  Or I could start over and carve a new piece of foam.  Or just forget it.  Which is what I've done the past several years.  Maybe when I retire :-).

Hey! Larry's Back

Hey.  What's going on?  Is Larry back?  Well sort of.

After I retired from Scoutmaster I mostly stopped updating my blogs.  But then I had some inspiration for some more posts.  But then other things happened and I didn't post those ideas.  And then more things happened and now I'm past some of those things and I still have some ideas.  So here they come.

Didn't say I am a great writer but I do sometimes have ideas.  I've been watching some YouTubes, particularly the machinists.  Pretty cool.  But I don't have a GoPro and I'm not sure that I want to do video.  I think I'll be better with photos.  We'll see.  Have fun.

What is That?

What in the world is that?  It's a firewood holder.  I built two of these.  They are side by side in the firewood house.

The original firewood house had a bunch of untreated wood and was getting ready to fall down.

The firewood shelves are 2X4s laid on edge and separated by 2X4 width.  This allows bark and chips and sawdust to drop to the ground.  Just an idea that I had.  I built one of these for my mom when she lived in North Carolina.  I then built the one that we've had in the backyard, shown above, about 10 years ago.

The new firewood house was a canoe rack but the canoes went to the scout troop.  I put a roof on it and now it's the firewood house.

Christmas Tree Van

Not such a great slide scan.  I tried AutoCorrect but it didn't help much.  I don't have PhotoShop or things like that.

Would you drive or ride around in something like that?  It was Ford Econoline Van.  Had the engine up between the two front seats.  Was owned by the Honeywell Corporation and they painted it.  I suppose that the colors were company colors.  Our neighbors called it the Christmas Tree Van.  I believe that's Big Meadows in the Shenandoah National Park.  Fun times.

How to Eat a Sloppy Woody

Woody's is coming to Sharpes.  Or maybe it's Canaveral Groves.  Or Frontenac.  Anyway, just north of Cocoa on US-1 a new Woody's is arising from the ruins of the old Corky Belle's.

One of the southern BBQ things that I like is the sloppy sandwich.  It's a bunch of BBQ meat slapped on a bun.  Yep, that's it.  Sauce already applied.  Here is how you eat it.  Order it with some coleslaw.  Open the bun, spread the sloppy Woody around both buns, put the coleslaw on top and consume.

Only Woodys and Ken's BBQ in Live Oak have a good sloppy sandwich.

Cabinets!!

Ikea Lixtorp Cabinets.  From 150 boxes in the garage to cabinets on the wall.  The architect/designer/engineer/contractor has been very busy.