Allan's 2020 Projects

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Entertainment to get way from other jobs that absolutely need done, I turn some pens. You can think of it as using up mostly old pen kits (sort of - some not so old)
These are two roller ball and two fountain pens. The left two have a hard wax finish. The light colored one is Zebra wood, with a hard wax finish. The other three are Myrtle wood from the Organ coast town of Bandon.

(10:10:2020)
New type of bread (to me)!
Turkish soft bread.I don't often start mixing bread right from the start by hand, but my recipe warned that it worked better this way. Just dump the fixings into the bowl and get in there with your hands.
One other thing I found: is that the "bread proof setting on our stove works like a son-a-gun!


Everything else was basically normal, other than brushing with olive oil and sprinkling with chili flakes and dry parsley and you fried it (5 minutes per side). It went well with the Lamb Tagine to the right.


(15:11:2020)
  
Removing old baseboard heaters reduc.
Making the wall good(ish) again.





(10:10:2020)
Every so often one gets a job that puts fire in the blood.
The job was to replace risers that levelled the work bench to the table saw deck. The table needed to come up about an inch so it would act as a run out table for the saw. But when I did it the first time I used wood to make the extensions. It took about a year before I finally broke one and had to replace it.
This time we'll use some 7/8's square tubing which needed to be cut into 3 inch lengths hence the fireworks display.


(27:09:2020)
Cold Room Potato Bin.
Or how to turn perfectly good 2x6 into saw dust.






(18:09:2020)
Replace the dust collection bin on the shop vacum system





(01:09:2020)
Replace the towel hanger with one that doesn't droop and has longer rods.

(20:08:2020)
Removing old baseboard heaters.





(27:07:2020)
Removing old baseboard heater electrical boxes





(25:07:2020)
Post Pounder





(13:07:2020)
A system to display an ancestral afghan!





(11:07:2020)
Look who is back!

After much procrastinating flower bed post gets a concrete ring to hold it up straight(ish).

(07:07:2020)
Hose Hanger for the back deck!

After 7 years this hose laying around on the deck had become a problem. This should keep it neat and easy to access.

(25:05:2020)
This trellis is a place for cucumbers and tomatoes to grow wild. But the original bamboo was cracked and in bad shape.





(25:05:2020)
  

   		Two sides of the utility post in backyard

This flower bed has been under development for 6 years, it used to be a steep bank at the edge of the grass and before "Jurassic Park".

As dirt has been removed from other parts of the yard it has bee placed on the bank, extending it to 3.5 to 4.5 feet of level ground to plant in.

To add it to the automated watering system, we put three pipes across the grass area in the late fall of 2019. The three pipes are for water controlled by the irrigation controller, tap water to fill bird bath, and electricity (used in the winter to power a stock water heater used to keep the bird bath ice free.

Oh and the post was being dumped from the yard next door. It did take 'some time' to drill the two lengthwise holes for the pipe and cut the tap and outlet box into the sides.

Home made hose hanger!

(12:05:2020)

Electrical hooked up! This is so we can use the stock water heater to keep the bird bath open all winter. The timer is for the summer birdbath/fountain on the backyard patio.

(24:05:2020)
Bet you figured this died a long time ago? Well having got the table that is used to start spring plants redone, and moved from where it was a big impediment to using the rest of the shop, it's now time to finish and install a way to easily raise and lower the lights.





(24:04:2020)
Tiz the year to replace the plastic cover on the greenhouse. After about 3 years it gets brittle and more opaque.





(24:04:2020)
Taking a break from the wood shop (like I have been spending a lot of time there the last few days). Giving a Pi Zero something to do.





(05:04:2020)
New Cane





(28:03:2020)
Sanding Belt Control





(19:03:2020)
Mail box (like we get mail delivery eh!) with a fistula! So we can check if the news paper (like we get a paper eh!) is there when it rains.

(08:03:2020)
A penny Table
Spinning Wheel





(20:02:2020)
New Cat - New Post





(17:02:2020)
Up till now the table we use to start the garden plants has been set up on saw horses. Making it VERY hard to move around to access the cupboards in the shop. The table itself gets stored over the rest of the year attached to the floor joists in the shop. Legs will have to be removable for storage.





(21:01:2020)
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