Meat of the winter, Football Playoffs on, no Pats, should be start of fishing show season.

That means, of course, work ~!

So what's up for the weekend?

Wishing I was a black bear and asleep in my den, waiting for the warmth of spring to wake me up, getting tougher each winter to get through this. Football is about all I can say I have to look forward to this weekend, might be busting out an IPA early.

it's the heart of the ice fishing season, been at it for a little over a month, finally ice on the bigger lakes safe enough for vehicle travel..
heading North for the weekend..

Grandkids,,,, One hockey game and one concert… that’s it ,,,,
Thinking about baking bread 🥖…..

Bob

gotta agree with you .1st time ever I,m feeling the winter/ cold and all the stuff that comes with it ..:bgi:

When I get out of work in the morning I am boarding a plane with my son to Ohio. He bought a truck and we are driving it back. Nothing planned for Sunday

Worked late, gotta catch up on more work tomorrow.
Sunday - Watch Touchdown Tommy!

Wishing I was a black bear and asleep in my den, waiting for the warmth of spring to wake me up, getting tougher each winter to get through this. Football is about all I can say I have to look forward to this weekend, might be busting out an IPA early.
Horrible this year. I worked outside all day Saturday. Just brutal.

I have really had it with this winter and will not be here next year. Jeanne wouldn't travel due to Covid but come hell or high water I will be South starting December 1, 2022.

Trying to strip and re do and oak dinner table... lets just say its not going to plan.. 60 grit is next :eek5:

Trying to strip and re do and oak dinner table... lets just say its not going to plan.. 60 grit is next :eek5:
You might regret that.

Try to find some pond hockey
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Google Starlink

It is dozens of satellites in a row going across the sky!

Coolest thing I have seen in the sky in many many years! Check time in your town. 5:58 tonight in my town.


https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7qtwoe

Trying to strip and re do and oak dinner table... lets just say its not going to plan.. 60 grit is next :eek5:

You might regret that.

Wayne’s real handy…..:conf:

No one is handy enough to convince me that a dip strip service isn't money well spent....

Watch football, golf and tennis and read more history books. Bourbon and Scotch. Clean basement, never ends. Avoid frustration with current state of being a human.

Trying to strip and re do and oak dinner table... lets just say its not going to plan.. 60 grit is next :eek5:

How old a table
The old ones were shellacked, steel wool and denatured alcohol will strip that way better than paint remover
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Pete, ever notice how removing old shellac smells like BO?

Hang air filtration system to save my lungs!

No one is handy enough to convince me that a dip strip service isn't money well spent....

I have to strip a door that was probably built in the 1830’s and it’s loaded with lead paint. you think I should get that dipped? Or for just a door, should I just throw on a respirator and heat gun it?
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Pete, ever notice how removing old shellac smells like BO?

Been a while since I actually did it myself
Maybe my own stench covered it up😊
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I have to strip a door that was probably built in the 1830’s and it’s loaded with lead paint. you think I should get that dipped? Or for just a door, should I just throw on a respirator and heat gun it?
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You blow glass and a little lead concerns you 😊
I’d do it outside with a fan or wind
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You blow glass and a little lead concerns you 😊
I’d do it outside with a fan or wind
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I do but my glass contains no lead
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I do but my glass contains no lead
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But some is Uranium :hidin:

look for a product called strip-tox may need a few coats. I used to apply 2nd coat just as 1st coat started to dry worked great.

But some is Uranium :hidin:

True! I haven’t touched that stuff since you saw it last

look for a product called strip-tox may need a few coats. I used to apply 2nd coat just as 1st coat started to dry worked great.

Thanks Clambno. I will give that a try

Try to find some pond hockey
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Cool drone pic from yesterday here in Marblehead

Cool drone pic from yesterday here in Marblehead

I know a guy who grew up playing hockey in Marblehead, I think he graduated in 73 or 74
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Speaking of Marblehead... Reading a book called "The Indispensables". Marbleheaders were leading characters up to and during the Revolutionary War. Very good.

Yes Good book. He has written some other really good stuff too. Lives here, but don't know him.

Well I am happy to report not a total failure yet not having a heated basement hasn’t helped The leaf was the original color

Rays right I am not very handy :buds:

Wow, nice Wayne

Looks great! Think about this; Ray and I can do this stuff.... it ain't rocket science!

Get a heater in there, some 0000 steel wool, and get a half dozen more coats on that. I finish off a majority of my pieces by polishing with black/brown/old fashioned butchers wax

Nice job my friend.

Looks great! Think about this; Ray and I can do this stuff.... it ain't rocket science!

Get a heater in there, some 0000 steel wool, and get a half dozen more coats on that. I finish off a majority of my pieces by polishing with black/brown/old fashioned butchers wax

Well said …. but you’ve never seen some of Wayne’s other handy work …. LOL
We’d never fill his work boots ,,,,

Thanks guys , what’s the saying Even a blind squirrel (me) finds a nut once in a while

Hang air filtration system to save my lungs!

Success!

Success!

Awesome.

Well I am happy to report not a total failure yet not having a heated basement hasn’t helped The leaf was the original color

Rays right I am not very handy :buds:

Wow that’s nice! Great job.