I'm sitting here looking out the window, the sun is up but the day is gray and rain is coming down. Pouring so hard in fact that the gutters can't keep up and there is a curtain of water obscuring my view of the little fish pond outside the window by my desk. There is a nice fire going in the woodstove, burning some partly bug eaten fir snag that had grown along side the driveway.
Faced with such a day I've got some choices to make, namely will I work outdoors or in? I've sized up the wind and it is all wrong for dealing with those Doug Fir snags that are leaning towards the power lines. I could climb and take down the Cotton Willow, but I'd be getting slapped by the Doug Firs it grows up into. No, I think I'll work on some projects in the shop. I've got the dehumidifier running, the only way in that old shop to keep the damp away during the wet season.
I'll make a few phone calls to follow up on some work leads, maybe pin down something to put a little of the spendable green in my pocket. Sometime this afternoon I'll let the little guy help me move a wheelbarrow load of firewood inside by the stove. He loves to carry it from the door to the stack by the stove. He reverently calls the woodstove and the fire inside the "Baappa!", not sure where he got that from, but he insists on it. I guess at 20 months you can sort of call it like you see it.
First thing in the shop will be some welding to fix an aluminum truck tool box lid. After that I've got four 36" and one 32" bars that need dressed. Then a carb rebuild on the little garden tractor. Next I think I'll put the new bearings in the mower. The grass is going to love all this rain and be growing like crazy when the sun graces us with his shine and warmth.
Of course, I might decide to hang it all and go fishing.
Mr. HE
Faced with such a day I've got some choices to make, namely will I work outdoors or in? I've sized up the wind and it is all wrong for dealing with those Doug Fir snags that are leaning towards the power lines. I could climb and take down the Cotton Willow, but I'd be getting slapped by the Doug Firs it grows up into. No, I think I'll work on some projects in the shop. I've got the dehumidifier running, the only way in that old shop to keep the damp away during the wet season.
I'll make a few phone calls to follow up on some work leads, maybe pin down something to put a little of the spendable green in my pocket. Sometime this afternoon I'll let the little guy help me move a wheelbarrow load of firewood inside by the stove. He loves to carry it from the door to the stack by the stove. He reverently calls the woodstove and the fire inside the "Baappa!", not sure where he got that from, but he insists on it. I guess at 20 months you can sort of call it like you see it.
First thing in the shop will be some welding to fix an aluminum truck tool box lid. After that I've got four 36" and one 32" bars that need dressed. Then a carb rebuild on the little garden tractor. Next I think I'll put the new bearings in the mower. The grass is going to love all this rain and be growing like crazy when the sun graces us with his shine and warmth.
Of course, I might decide to hang it all and go fishing.
Mr. HE
Have a good day 
