I’m in the process of hiring out a kitchen remodel…I just can’t do it anymore…
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What's On Your Workbench?
- Thread starter HaMMerHeD
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Same here. I just don't have the stamina of my younger days. We're talking about moving - we'll have to hire a crew to come and pack us up and move us. Can't even do that anymore. I'll probably move my instruments over a period of time though.
If we were to move….yup, I’d hire that out too. The upkeep and yard work are getting tougher too. The best to you in whatever you do!
They look like Astilbe. Pretty. Glad your wife is feeling better.Man, I feel like I've been out of pocket for a month or something.
My weekend totally got away from me, and it started on Friday. The wife had a cyst removed from her head Friday morning, so luckily I was able to work from home and keep an eye on her the rest of the day. Then I started working on my major landscape project Saturday morning. I've got this back yard that slopes off really hard down to the house behind us -
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I spent the majority of Saturday clearing out the world's biggest blackberry infestation, and finally got it to a point where you could see down to the house behind us -
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it was so thick you couldn't see that house at all. My long-term goal here is to terrace it off in some manner to create a veggie garden. But now I'm at a point where I need to get on it before the blackberries and other weeds just take over. We have a major problem with "fireweed" in these parts -
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Don't get me wrong, they are kind of pretty and hummingbirds and butterflies love them. But they can take over a freshly disturbed hillside in a matter of days.
Anyways, my bench is lonely. I miss it. But I just can't seem to get back to it. Also, my veggies aren't sprouting very quickly and I'm finding this gardening thing way more difficult than I feel like it should be. If anyone needs a lesson in humility, try growing veggies from seed.
I have a hill that comes down to the back of my house. I tiered one section of it and put a fireplace in last year. Put a bunch of boulders from other parts of our gardens in as seating and cemented them in place together. Now my wife said I should keep going cutting back the hill above it for another tier and more seating. Grounds still pretty frozen here so at least I have a month or so before I have to get on it!
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You'll have to change your forum name to ZenMasterTim68.
Yeah, ours is a mess...and it slopes down from our house.
When we first started working on it the neighbor behind us said "We really like not being able to see your house up there...." Yeah buddy, we like not seeing yours down there too. But we're paying taxes on this....
I installed a 12x8 greenhouse at the red arrow and I finally decided to focus on small victories by just trying to reclaim the area in the red rectangle -
It's an area maybe 14 foot wide so it'll give me about 10 feet of planter width at each terraced section. The rest of it is really shaded by several trees that the wife doesn't want to remove because we get a TON of birds and squirrels due to our close proximity to a very large wooded park, and she loves watching the birds playing out the back windows. I may try to do something to create some sort of seating area under all the tree canopy later on, but for now, small victory will be reclaiming that very small area in front of the greenhouse.
From a gardening standpoint, it's horrible. It's north facing and sloping down. So it's not a good place to try to grow veggies. But whatever, it's what I've got to work with. I'll just have to learn how to grow stuff that likes partial shade and short days.
The last lady that owned our house was an avid gardener. She had cottage gardens surrounding the house and in the yard. Oh they're all perennials. It's super easy to take care of they said. Now I've done a fair share of gardening in my life. What I didn't realize is there were so many differant plants I didn't know I could never tell what was weed and what was flower. To make matters worse some of the plants only came up every other year. The lady across the street told me - Oh yeah. She was out there from dusk until dawn every day!Yeah, ours is a mess...and it slopes down from our house.
When we first started working on it the neighbor behind us said "We really like not being able to see your house up there...." Yeah buddy, we like not seeing yours down there too. But we're paying taxes on this....
I installed a 12x8 greenhouse at the red arrow and I finally decided to focus on small victories by just trying to reclaim the area in the red rectangle -
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It's an area maybe 14 foot wide so it'll give me about 10 feet of planter width at each terraced section. The rest of it is really shaded by several trees that the wife doesn't want to remove because we get a TON of birds and squirrels due to our close proximity to a very large wooded park, and she loves watching the birds playing out the back windows. I may try to do something to create some sort of seating area under all the tree canopy later on, but for now, small victory will be reclaiming that very small area in front of the greenhouse.
From a gardening standpoint, it's horrible. It's north facing and sloping down. So it's not a good place to try to grow veggies. But whatever, it's what I've got to work with. I'll just have to learn how to grow stuff that likes partial shade and short days.
I've slowly been reclaiming and mulching the crap out of things. Here's whatI the pit looked like almost finished. Our hill isnt big at all. Its just a little annoying. It was great when the kids were little.
Bass connection - things that take us away from our basses and work bench
I feel your pain. My wife and I discussed moving. I went out in the garage and the basement and looked around. I seriously considered just burning it all and starting over rather then pack.
We've talked about moving, but it'll never happen now. I'd love to have a place with room to build a shop, or a place that already has a shop. But with current interest rates there's no way we could afford the house we're in now if we had to buy it today.
So yeah, there's your bass connection, I'm stuck in my tiny little space for the foreseeable future.
So yeah, there's your bass connection, I'm stuck in my tiny little space for the foreseeable future.
Being a North Carolinian it’s nostalgic picking blackberry bushes (and muscadine grape vines) it’s always good to have a plant in your back yard that you can pick and eat from (unless it gets out of control)
My wife has been saying she's just going to burn the house down for like a month! Life with 17 yr old twins
I had just filed that under: Yeah, I knew what he meant.
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I would assume that's really what the whole "Off Topic" sub-forum is for. I know a couple of the "brand clubs" threads are over there because they have a tendency to get pretty far off topic. So yeah, we should get back to the luthiery.
Any of you got tips on how to make this crushed abalone flake fill better? I'm getting a lot of voids under the top surface that show up when I sand it back. Specifically using "Easy Inlay" -
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01LXO9QCE/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
So far, not so easy.
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