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1964: after high school life begins. Asked to consider not returning to OSU after the first year. 1966 drafted; grunt, door gunner, HU1 pilot. Out in Dec '70. 1972 married, joined fire dept and bought first house over a 6 month span. 1980 moved family (which now consisted of wife Teri, daughter Amy and son Ryan) to CO. 1990 moved all to bush Alaska to work for the dark side (the FAA). Started Blog to keep family and friends up on our whereabouts. Retired in March 2010. In Feb 2012 sold house in Alaska. By May had bought in Redmond and completed the move. Still nesting in Redmond and loving it!

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Tables & Blocks

We have a work bench/assembly table.

The foundation. Made from many 3.5" strips of 1.125" floor plywood.
 The top; made from two layers of same. Tool shelf is 3/4" plywood.

Now I can make things besides sawdust and noise, although there will still be plenty of that.  Emil gave me a great idea for the storage/use of the bench top planer.  I plan to add hinges and pulleys to his idea. Either that or a hydraulic lift.  All I have to do is figure out how to get an eye bolt through the middle of the light fixture.  This is going to be great!

Had a bunch of writers block the past two weeks. Don't know if I'm over it.  The blockage seems to be a memory issue; I know what I want to say but my on board search engine keeps giving me "no results found for your request".  I've found that a certain potato distillate is a fine mental laxative but don't want to subject you all to the literary (?) diarrhea that usually results.  So I'll hack away at it and save as draft until I get it right. Or not.

Headed for Portland for Final Timbers game and, of course, a grand kid fix.  I'm sure you have all heard about their heroic (?) win in Vancouver (the Timbers, not the grand kids).  If not, they won the Cascadia Cup.  The bad news, it was their only away win this year.

Snowed in Bend the other day, only skiffs of corn snow here.

Weather is still perfect in the garage.

Stay warm.