Your weekend accomplishments.

[dbhost]

I have seen this done on another site, and liked it, so I figured I would try it out here to see if folks want to participate...

What were your accomplishments for the weekend?

I took a long weekend this past week not by my intention, but rather because I ended up having to deal with a pet health issue, so here goes the weekend...

Friday I ended up taking the dog to see the vet, His eyes were blood shot and he was pawing at them pretty frequently. It would appear my dog is coming down with allergies as well. Poor thing looked miserable. Doc has me giving him Benadryl and some eye drops. The benadryl is no biggie, just put the pill in a handful of peanuts and he downs it easy. The eyedrops are a wrestling match...

Somebody had attempted to steal the wheels off my truck last week while I was at work, and failed, but the left lug nuts off the front wheels, sadly I didn't notice until it was too late. I took care of much of the damage, I had to do some running back and forth to find enough wheel studs to replace the ones that were damaged, but thankfully there was no damage to either the brake, control arm, ball joints or spindle. That ate up a mess of my time this weekend.

I did manage to get the replacement rim in quickly at 4Wheelparts in Houston. I ordered a pair so that they would match, had the good road wheel swapped to the spare so that now I have the spare matching the road wheels and tire. Silver lining I guess...

Stopped by the mulch lot on the way home and got a yard of mulch...

Aired the wheelbarrow tire back up, and watched as it deflated itself. Inner tube was a dud. Went to get a replacement and could only find full wheel assemblies. Bought the never flat version, and had to do some "shim adjustment" to make everything fit right. Had to soak fasteners in WD-40 to get them to come apart without killing me, and soaked the bolts, and axle shaft in WD-40 and scrubbed a heavy coating of rust off of them before reassembly. I need another heavy coating of gloss black paint, but other than that, the barrow is in good shape still. Not bad for living outside for 10 years!

We then weeded the flower beds, laid down Scotts Bonus S weed & feed , and watered it in on the front yard Saturday night, trimmed the crepe myrtle tree and laid out my mulch Sunday. Laid down the bonus S and water in the back yard Sunday.

Much of the weekend Comcast had my cable up / down so I didn't get any tech work I was planning done. Try to get on it during the week though. At least my speeds are back near where they belong...

Sunday Morning we caught services at our church, and noted the pastor was out. Come to find out, which I sort of knew this was coming, his wife had lost her long running fight with bone cancer. She will be missed... I have met a lot of "pastor's wives" and Kym was nothing like the majority I have met. She was a genuine, warm, caring person that really made everyone feel welcome.

I did get some time in the shop this weekend, mostly straightening out the mess created with mechanics tools. Cleaning, sorting, and organizing my toolbox. I need to hunt down a Snap On guy again, I managed to break a 16mm Snap On Deep Well 6pt socket.

Say what you will about tool brands and quality, I have had more Snap On sockets break than any other brand, including Harbor Freight's Pittsburgh brand...

While I was at it, I washed down the lawn mower, and collapsed the handle. I am missing a wing bolt for the handle and need to find a replacement SOON! I also washed down the spreader, and am letting it dry. Will collapse the handle down tonight most likely.

So that was my all too busy weekend. What did you accomplish over the weekend?

[tfischer]

Worked on the bunk bed project (see my other thread for ongoing progress). Got the lawn tractor back from the shop... been having fuel starvation problems since last fall - I had replaced the fuel pump, all the fuel line, fuel filter, cleaned the carb... still wasn't happening. So I threw in the towel and brought it in (first time the tractor has left my property (other then my neighbor's yard) since we got it 12 years ago). $175 later I find out that the fuel pump I bought and installed was bogus. Ugh. Saturday night I played trumpet in a concert with the concert band I play with. Didn't get any outdoor work done at all - it's been a very cold and wet spring and haven't even started the garden yet - not even clearing out last years junk.

[Neal]

Let's see.

Mowed the lawn. Washed and swept the interiors of both vehicles. Made a trip to pick up a kitchen table for my step-daughter (who graduates from college in two weeks and is furninshing an appartment).

On Sunday, we planted our first 7 tomato plants of the year, 2 better boys, 1 purple cherokee, and 4 Japanese treufels. Two banana bepper plants, and a poblano. Also planted a couple of pernials in our decorative beds. And planted four basil plants. Also prepared multiple flower pots for decorative planting next weekend.

We will plant another 6 better boy tomatoes over the next several weeks to space out the fruit bearing season. The hybrid tomatoes are "experimental" to see if we like them or not.

Then watched a college baseball double header.

[russde]

Wow Dave...that's a very impressive weekend list of 'chores'.
Mine was pretty tame by way of comparison. I cut about 10 tiles for the shower ceiling in my on-going remodel of our upstairs bathroom, I've been tiling the shower for about three weeks (kind of indicates my interest in the job, but, otoh, the Harbor Freight tile saw I bought for this and the master bath re-do has worked awesomely so far, DeWalt blade equipped probably helps a bunch)
Tile installed, and then hung the two doors I prepped for the master bedroom, (I am slowly replacing the 1964 hollow core doors throughout the house with solid knotty pine doors, real aesthetic improvement) these were stained 'gunstock' and then I put about 6 coats of wipe-on poly on them, turned out great.
That's it for my productivity for the weekend...
Russ

[twistsol]

Mike's daily snapshots inspired me to get back into the shop and finish some long overdue projects. I had Saturday afternoon to begin work on the completion of my ultimate tool stand. I got it to the point where it was serviceable more than 10 years ago, but never completed it.

It was a bit of a head scratcher as I tried to figure out how to attach the face frame to the completed boxes and ended up using my Festool domino. Second challenge was that the 7' torsion box sagged about 1/4" and fitting a straight face frame didn't go that well. I completed the face frame for the front and figured I'd practice rail and stile panels for the ends and back one more time before I begin the kitchen cabinet build this fall.

Unfortunately work was interrupted by three conference calls on Saturday and another on Sunday after configuration changes shut down all the month end jobs at work.

I'll post pictures when it is completed.

[atgcpaul]

On Friday night I started gluing up the kitchen cabinet doors I mentioned in this post. Only got about half of them done.

http://www.bt3central.com/showthread.php?t=59276

My wife was volunteering all day Saturday so after I got the girls breakfast, I took them to the National Cathedral Flower Mart. We go every year. Beautiful weekend for it and they have an antique carousel which is their favorite ride. There's also a member (and wife) at Woodnet who were selling crafts there. We bought one of their items on vacation a couple of years ago not realizing it was him until I looked at the business card and happened to see one his posts on Woodnet that night. I bought another one of their baskets this year as a Mother's Day present for my mom.

The kids napped on the car ride home but wouldn't nap again when we got home. They were become horrid beasties by the time my wife got back at 5:30pm so I handed them off to her and disappeared into the shop for a couple of hours to cool off and glue up more doors.

Yesterday we did church in the morning. It was our new senior pastor's first day on the job. My wife had more volunteer stuff in the afternoon (we both volunteer at the local food pantry. She was directing a PSA for some TV spots for the pantry. One of our congregants is a cameraman/producer for the county's TV station and he volunteered his crew's time). I took a nap with the girls for a few hours, snuck out of their room, and glued up the last of the doors before they woke up.

After they woke up, got them snacks, let them play in the yard while I filled the gaps in the door with putty (pictures coming).

We had dinner, got some raspados (Mexican shave ice), then we all went to the park because the older daughter has been wanting to ride her bike around (with training wheels). I'm really impressed at how far she's gotten. She just needs to figure out the brake. Her little sister got to ride her tricycle with the Daddy-push-me bar in the back.

Pretty good weekend minus the tantrums.

Paul

[tfischer]

Mike's daily snapshots inspired me to get back into the shop and finish some long overdue projects.

I love it! That's what I was saying... activity here breeds activity in the shop, which breeds more activity here.

Seems like many are making a more conscious effort to post here and it's really been enjoyable.

[trungdok]

I got some 1/4 sheets particle boards and MDF boards for free a couple of weeks ago. This weekend, I used the particle boards to create a drawer box to fit under my Bt3100. Then I started building a mortising jig with the MDF. Man, those MDF are dusty!!!

[cray-]

Scored a free card cabinet/tool chest from work, just had to get it home. It's all steel, very solid, measures 600x700x900mm (24x27x35" approx). Spray can for scale.



Got it out of the storage room at work and down some stairs on a trolley. But there was no way I could lift it up into the back of my wife's wagon by myself. I considered taking the drawers out to make the cabinet lighter but ran into two problems:
1- Once I got the cab into the car I wouldn't be able to put the drawers back in and didn't fancy two trips.
2- I don't think the drawers come off the slides without tools & a lot of messing around.
Time to improvise!

Found some long aluminium extrusions (part of an old display system), wedged them against the bottom of the stairs behind the car and like an ancient Egyptian building a pyramid, slowly slid the cabinet up my make shift ramp (the rails popped up to horizontal once the cab got over the tipping point, hence the photo).



Reversed the process once I got home using a few LVLs. Needs a bit of a cleanup but it's oldschool tough. Really nice high quality, full extension slides plus I got 9 sets of card trays (fits 3 per drawer) with handles so I can move things out to the work space if need be.

Also managed to fernagle an hour in the shop while wife took kids to visit Nan & Granddad. Had a bit of a cleanup and added this shelf to the bottom of my work bench so I can continue with the organisation.



Couple of 42x19mm (1 5/8 x 3/4") batons and some pocket screws, like the rest of the work bench, nothing fancy.

[LCHIEN]

my weekend

mine started early as I took off Friday to go fishing.

Just puttering around Sat & Sunday avoiding cleaning up I decided to make some cedar birdfeeders for some friends and family. Used an old, mostly rotted away one I saved for a model, that my daughter built in some school project.

Played with the Grandson, saw my mom, had several dinners and lunches out for fun. Not working too hard.

Monday have to pick up the daughter from the airport coming home from Hawaii.

Number of things I should do but just didn't feel like starting.

Researching a new Camera... anyone got anything to say about the Micro-four thirds (MFT, M43) systems sold by Olympus, Panasonic-Lumix? Very compact interchangable lens mirrorless DSLRs using electronic viewfinders so they are much smaller and lighter and simpler than Nikon, Canon DSLRs with swing-up mirrors, the MFT sensors are a bit smaller than the big DSLRs but way larger than the sensors in the point and shoots. So the image quality should be nearly as good...

[Stytooner]

Nice haul, Loring. Is it Sheep head and red fish? I may have some blackened red fish tonight.
I don't have any info on the camera. I am sitting in a condo on the 17th floor in the French Quarter in NO. LOML has to work a bit training some people. Be back in Bama Wed.

[JoeyGee]

Loring, don't know much about cameras, but I have 3 friends that have the Lumix and they all rave about them. The pictures I have seen are really, really good.

[atgcpaul]

Nice haul, Michael and Loring.

I sprayed a coat of paint on the backs and fronts of my cabinet doors. Will do another coat on the backs today.

I spent a little time Saturday and Sunday clearing all the crap behind the garage so I can replace the siding. I have a bunch of leftover bricks and pavers that I'm laying out there as I clear space. Lots of BIG spiders so it's not fun work. I also have a bunch of walnut logs I've been saving for future bowl work that are slowing be down. The bark is crumbling off and is making clean up more of a chore. The wood underneath is in surprisingly good condition, though. I split a few chunks for firewood and no rot and end checking only goes in about an 1".

I also have that wood haul to put away. It's been sitting on sawhorses since I got it home. The weather has been cooperating all weekend but I need to get it inside before it rains again. The shop is occupied for painting so I'm thinking of taking the red oak boards to the attic of my house (they've been in the attic of the seller's shed for 15 years) and finding space for the poplar boards in the shop.

This afternoon the neighbors are having a BBQ so I've got to make a side dish.

[Pappy]

Nice cabinet Cray. Almost like a Stanley Vidmar.

Trying to get some work done. I have 2 projects going that are getting attention.

Set up a pool last summer and want a bit more privacy for it. Got started about 2 weeks ago by taking down the short section of chain link fence from the house to the gate to be replaced with a 7' cedar privacy. I got the gate post reset to reverse the swing and the first longer post set at the corner of the house.

The rest of the fence along that line needed to be straightened. With the line posts pulled up I marked the ground for new holes and rented a power auger yesterday. The holes are dug and it looks like the weather is going to be good enough for me to set the line posts in concrete today. As soon as it is hardened enough, I can get the chain link back up and set the rest of the posts for the privacy fence.

The other project is a portable garage the wife bought me. I put it up and the wind decided to reposition it the first night, about 150 feet across the yard and against the house. Over the last week or so I dug out under each leg location and poured a pad/pier. Each one is 40# of concrete. I am to bolt the feet to the piers with 2 expansion anchors each and then recover the frame. Hopefully 320# of concrete will be enough to hold it down. Plan is to use it for maintenance on vehicles.

[JimD]

I'm recovering from poison oak on my arms, legs and chest so I'm taking it easy this weekend. I mowed two lawns (ours and the house we want to sell) Saturday and then painted the kitchen of the house that is for sale. My late wife painted the kitchen dark green and the realtor and the new wife hate it. So I got some color match paint at Sherman Williams ($40 on sale) and painted the kitchen then took car of holes in the wall for picture hangers and other small blemishes (the rest of the house is taupe so now the kitchen is too). Yesterday after church I painted some trim white (instead of slate blue at the new (really old) house) and installed a new cover support on the boat. Today I shoveled mud off the driveway and will soon take the cover off the boat and see if it starts. It's supposed to rain this afternoon so I want to get the boat ready and take the girls tubing late this morning and/or early this afternoon. Then cook some burgers on the grill. Maybe paint some more trim. Replaced plugs in SUV after hauling trash.