A kinder gentler shopping attire using a lightweight face shield
I have been using my heavy duty shop grade face shield for shopping during this pandemic. I recently purchased a lightweight face shield from Amazon. Click on the link to purchase one for yourself.
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I was a hippie drop out then moved to the mountains to join a church group.
I have gone through a lot of interesting life experiences during my early adult life. Now that I am retired I am taking the time to go through the slides that I took during the late 1970s into the mid-1980s and put them on the Internet to share with my old friends. For those of…
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When one of us can’t breathe, eventually we will all suffocate
I saw this image of William Barr choking Blind Justice on my FaceBook feed yesterday. Sylvia Wormley wanted to see it because I told her that it was one of the best political cartoons that I have seen in a long time. FaceBook must have removed it, but thanks to Google search and Google image…
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I am a Pastafarianism
At this point in my life, I guess I can really come out and define what I believe. I don’t always wear my beliefs and convictions on my sleeve, but every once in a while I have to stand up and just scream it. I am an emotional person and a graphic artist so I…
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My Monday morning walk across the Doublegate Country Club
Today is Monday, so the golf course is closed to golfers. the landscaping crew uses Monday to fix all of the damage done to the course during the rest of the week. since my retirement, I have not walked across the course in the daytime. When I was running a few years back before my…
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Mowing my lawn and tracking my steps with Garmin satellites
I am cutting my yard myself again. I retired at the end of January 2020 and we decided to cancel the lawn service so I could get more exercise! This week when I cut the front and back yard I decided to track my progress using my Garmin watch. I wanted to see how accurate…
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I finally have a mobile storage container for my wood scraps.
I am in the middle of organizing the garage. My goal is to have a workspace for woodworking and painting without sacrificing allowing a car to park in the garage. In order to do this, I am putting as many of my large shop tools on wheels. I am also creating storage areas for my…
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Garage clean up project gets a honey-do list item in the house completed
I’ve had this keyboard tray in my garage for several years. I salvaged it off of some old desks that were being discarded. Currently, I’m in the middle of organizing my workshop and the junk in the garage. I decided that I’m either going install this keyboard tray today or it’s going in the trash.…
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I finally have a mobile table saw thanks to the DIY kit from Harbor Freight
This is another project that got completed in a timely fashion thanks to social distancing. The Harbor Freight mobile base was purchased in Tallahassee Florida several years ago. Since the purchase two Harbor Freight stores have opened near me. The first store is in Thomasville and now there is one in Albany. I bought the…
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Sheltering in place gave me the excuse to organize all of my sockets
So I’ve been working on organizing my garage, moving my work benches around in order to get more space to accommodate Sylvia’s car and my wood working hobby. As I was going through the organization I came upon a socket board that I had purchased about a year ago. Now that I have so much…
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