What did YOU do today?

[JoshT]

I spent the past day and a half working on a closet… and it’s still not done. I have 5 more drawers to build.

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This is only half the closet. I’m building a built in bench out of cedar on the other wall. I have it framed out, I just need the time to finish it.

Is it a prefab closet organizer system that you mix and match pieces to fit, or is it "custom built" to fit your space

 

[Snoranger]

Is it a prefab closet organizer system that you mix and match pieces to fit, or is it "custom built" to fit your space

It’s 2 prefab kits and some extra sections to fill the space. It was an entire pallet in 24 different boxes.

 

[Rick W]

Leaves, wow, I guess it’s not just me.

Let me preface this by saying I’m a bachelor, and for the better part of 10 years, I was severely handicapped in the legs, and then with a blood problem.

When I bought the house on this half acre lot in ‘91, having been a city kid, one of the things I loved is that it was basically a little pine forest. They were just shy of 50 pine trees, like 60 or 70 feet tall, and today only three or four remain. The pines got taken out in the 1998 tornado, placing eight of them, conveniently right on the top of my house. The things I planted 30 years ago are large now, but it’s all maples, a sycamore and such: leaf mania!

I rebuilt the house and I added a second floor. 10 years later, Satan and I divorced. Right after that in 2014 is when I hurt my leg and life as I knew it came to an end. So where am I going with all this?

I’m doing really amazingly much better in the last few years, and after surgery aon my elbow in March, I’m almost back to being a functional human being again. As you might imagine there was some deferred maintenance on the house…..

To get a better idea of what I was going to have to do, I raked a bunch of the leaves, bundled them, and piled them up next to a storm drain that will take them down the creek.

So far, I did the upstairs hallway, the staircase, the living room, and the kitchen. I still have to do two bedrooms, and my office off the kitchen.

I hope to get the porch and start outside in the yard before Thanksgiving.

You guys have a safe and fun holiday. Remember to thank Him, from whom all good things come.

 

[Rick W]

I’m always scouting Craigslist and now marketplace for the next couple projects. If you’re not in a hurry, you can find some good deals. Considering my health, I’m limiting the number of projects to come. But I hope to finish up things I already started on.

I like to make my trailers match the truck that’s pulling them, so I have a bunch of 14 inch bullet hole wheels that I’ll use when I’m driving The Road Ranger, and then I have a red and black 88 bed made into a trailer, matching the Missing Linc with my tri-color painted steelies. On both the mag and the steel wheels, people just about give away the 14 inch ones, but the 15 inch ones are becoming rare as hens teeth. I only have two extra 15 inch bullet hole wheels, and both of them have hogged out lug nut holes. I’m using both as spares.

The 15 inch steel ones are cheap enough, but again, very rare these days. The 15 inch bullet holes, when you can find them, down here they’re $75-$100 each. Ouch, for silly projects.

So this week a guy was selling a set of 15 inch bullet holes with pretty well worn, but still legal, 215 tires. I’ve been wanting two or four to make my converter dolly to pull a tandem trailer set up, and to replace the spares I’m still not sure if I’m going to make it a single axle or a double axle. But I picked up these four aluminum wheels with roadworthy tires for a whopping $150, including the center caps.

New quality valve stems with chrome caps too! If and when I make the dolly, no more than I will ever use it, these tires will be fine as is. With my health improving, I hope to have it knocked out before the shows next summer. I’m also going make that dolly so I can chain it off from the outside edges to the corners of my F250, so I can pull the step trailer with that truck if I ever wanted to.

No, there is no practical, logical, or sensible reason for any of this. And, I already have scary baby’s brother and sister for the new builds.

BTW, my vote would be for the truck nationals, not the Ford nationals, but I’m still a newbie hanger on, so you guys decide…:

 

[pjtoledo]

made a few adjustments to the basement steps.
the landing pad at the bottom is up 16" and has 2 car dollies & 4x4 cribbing under it.

timing is perfect. wiffie just had surgery and can't do steps yet. technically I'll have about a week before she can legitimately scream at me.

 

[alwaysFlOoReD]

Wont she have to worry about splinters when she slides down?

 

[pjtoledo]

Wont she have to worry about splinters when she slides down?

probably

 

[Rick W]

made a few adjustments to the basement steps.
the landing pad at the bottom is up 16" and has 2 car dollies & 4x4 cribbing under it.

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timing is perfect. wiffie just had surgery and can't do steps yet. technically I'll have about a week before she can legitimately scream at me.

What’s the hallway at the right at the bottom? If you tilt that bottom panel up on the left and down on the right, and you launch her down the stairs, I bet she’d go a long distance….

In my prayers, trust in Him.

 

[Curious Hound]

probably

Then she could lay across your lap on the sofa and you could pick the splinters out while you watch tv.

 

[pjtoledo]

What’s the hallway at the right at the bottom? If you tilt that bottom panel up on the left and down on the right, and you launch her down the stairs, I bet she’d go a long distance….

In my prayers, trust in Him.

to the right is my workshop. she totally refuses to venture there, possible because the floor is littered with sharp metal chips from the mill and drill press.

 

[Rick W]

to the right is my workshop. she totally refuses to venture there, possible because the floor is littered with sharp metal chips from the mill and drill press.

Aha! So it’s the perfect opportunity to break her of that phobia!

 

[Rick W]

When I smashed my leg in 2014, like a year later, I bought a used exercise bike as part of my physical therapy. It had a tall seat and high handlebars like an old English racer bike. I’m not complaining, because it was exactly what I needed for that problem.

Now, 11 years later, I look back and for one calamity or another, I’ve been in physical therapy the whole time except for about eight months when I was so sick with blood crap that I couldn’t exercise. Fortunately, 99% of that is behind me now.

With the nerve damage had my hand very weak, although that is coming along nicely, I’m still afraid to get on that exercise bike. It’s high up, I can’t hold on, old technology and has a lot of sharp corners, and I don’t get up like I used to when I fall down. So I’ve been trolling craigslist and marketplace for a better option, and I found one couple days ago.

I bought a beautiful “recumbent“ exercise bike. You sit low, it has a back rest, it actually has a couple bars like reversed handle bars from behind your back you can hold on to, and the pedals are located kind of in front of you instead of below you. $50 for a $750 machine, and it still looks and works like brand new. I should be able to easily sell the old one for that after I hit it with the pressure washer.

And I finally figured out why they call them exercise bikes. My old one is probably 100 pounds plus, and I have to get it out of the bedroom and down the stairs without destroying the walls and floor in between. I already moved it out of the bedroom to the balcony over the stair staircase. I fetched the new one (150# plus) with the Missing Linc and backed right up to my front door across the lawn. I was able to get it into my living room so it didn’t get ruined in bad weather.

By the time I get the old one out, and I get the new one in place, I will have had more exercise than I ever got riding them for the last 10 years….