Lovely wife getting crafty- click for full size
That went over well enough that Paula Movie requested one as well:
Our kids come through the door after a long day of school and their packs and shoes either overwhelm our small laundry room or randomly fall from their little bodies like leaves from a tree, if that tree was able to walk around and randomly drop things all through the house.
We want to change that:
Gabe had a free form assignment to make a model of the solar system. The lovely wife and Gabe batted some ideas around and got to work:
Laying out the planet orbits:
Laying out the asteroid belt:
Proud Gabe shows off his creation:
Click for full size- photo credit to Paula Movie
Speaking of Graydon, this is a scan of a portrait she drew of me. I’m using my parental perogative and calling it Picasso-like:
Ooops. Long time with no posts!
Graydon had been asking about making a birdhouse for ages, so we gave it a go. Click images for full size.
We started with the hand saw, but used the power miter saw later for our 45 degree cuts.
I had some stainless exterior screws left over from a [Gaines] project, so we screwed the roof on instead of nailing to make cleaning out the house easier.
This was a super easy project. The cedar fence plank was about $2.50, a small pack of stainless wire nails was another $1.50.
The inspiration was a [Ana White] post, with some technical details on the hole size and placement from [wild-bird-watching.com]. We went with a chickadee size hole and Graydon looks like a happy builder.
A pair of old floor lamps had made their way into the garage, which is the lovely wife’s way of saying “put this in the trash”. I disassembled the lamps to keep the push button floor switches and decided to try to make something out of the bases.
Two rules for this project. The first was $0 spent. Anything on hand that wasn’t earmarked for another project was fair game. The second was that it was a junk box from scrap, so no spending a lot of time fussing over it. The goal was to make it look good while also putting it together quick and dirty style.
My leap into changing my disc brakes turned into a leap of disc brakes + rotor. The upside is that it turns out that doing disc brakes are way easier than drum brakes.
Also, got an assist from Charlie Kate. It was kind of neat to see her figure out where the lug nuts went and watching her put them back on. The gif below came from a series of phone pics that Google went and did their [Auto Awesome] thing.
Here’s a static shot if the one above is making the dear reader a bit seasick…
