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Hi ho, hi ho, it's off to build a canoe
Dec. 2nd, 2005 09:38 pmHad a good day today. Didn't get started until later than I liked, on account of a couple of loads of laundry and a morning walk and a longer-than-usual mandolin practice, but I got all bundled up (because the barn/workshop is kind of chilly when it's 45 degrees out) and took all my canoe-building books (you know you're a book nerd when one canoe-building book isn't enough), and the canoe plans (for luck--I'm still building the strongback, but never abandon your directions, even if they have nothing to do with what's going on right now), and two bottles of water and went off to work on the canoe.
Well, okay, the strongback. Which is now almost half done. Yay! Of course, I'm still a little worried about whether it will be straight when it's done (the most important part). And I broke a 3/32nd inch drill bit, which I promised Martha I'd replace.
Not only that, but Kip has to grade papers tomorrow (sympathetic look) so we're not gaming, which means I can work on the strongback tomorrow too! Double yay! (Okay, I must have a fever from all the enthusiasm. I'd rather work on the strongback than game?) But *that* means I may actually get the strongback done this week like I hoped, in spite of all the other interruptions that led to me spending much less time in the shop during the week than I'd planned. On the other hand, one interruption was exchanging a bent 1 by 4 for a straight 1 by 4 for the strongback, and another interruption was borrowing a kind friend's truck (and the friend) to buy another sheet of 3/4 inch plywood to make the stations that will be mounted on the strongback. So they weren't exactly "not working on the canoe." They were just not working on the *canoe*. If you see what I mean.
But I will quit early tomorrow so Kip and I can go out to dinner for my birthday :-).
Well, okay, the strongback. Which is now almost half done. Yay! Of course, I'm still a little worried about whether it will be straight when it's done (the most important part). And I broke a 3/32nd inch drill bit, which I promised Martha I'd replace.
Not only that, but Kip has to grade papers tomorrow (sympathetic look) so we're not gaming, which means I can work on the strongback tomorrow too! Double yay! (Okay, I must have a fever from all the enthusiasm. I'd rather work on the strongback than game?) But *that* means I may actually get the strongback done this week like I hoped, in spite of all the other interruptions that led to me spending much less time in the shop during the week than I'd planned. On the other hand, one interruption was exchanging a bent 1 by 4 for a straight 1 by 4 for the strongback, and another interruption was borrowing a kind friend's truck (and the friend) to buy another sheet of 3/4 inch plywood to make the stations that will be mounted on the strongback. So they weren't exactly "not working on the canoe." They were just not working on the *canoe*. If you see what I mean.
But I will quit early tomorrow so Kip and I can go out to dinner for my birthday :-).
