Anyhow, She won't eat so she gets to teach the little one the joys of the spoon. They are both happy that way and I can eat my supper while it's still hot.
I like Wendy's spoons. They have nice plastic spoons. Well worth washing!
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Lots of wood cutting, cooking, shoveling, and the like. I have ran a chainsaw more in the last week than I have all my life.
It feels good to be able to help my folks out after all they've done for me. I just wish that they where healthy enough that I didn't need to!
The weather up north has been pretty bad. I don't remember ever seeing the roads as bad as they where. I am SO glad I took the time to put my good snow tires on. Nothing like waiting until March 1st to install your snowies!
I think I got enough chores done that they can rest and get healthy for spring.
We finished the trip with a day at the Mall of America. Let the girls have some fun at the amusement park.
In album Week at the grandparents
Mmore wood, ready to go to the house. I did over half a dozen trips like this. The wood trailer is stuck behind a hundred yards of 3 foot deep snow.
Julie was SO EXCITED when she saw Dora. “DADO DADO DADO DADO” she kept saying. However, she just wasn’t having the photo op.
I picked up my birthday present from my wife! She knows me so well. She gets me 100 year old stuff. How awesome is that?
My saint of a wife cooked, and cooked, and cooked. Freezer meals. Meatloaf, lasagna, spaghetti sauce, chicken noodle soup, chicken pot pies.
I’ve never seen roads so bad. There is over an inch of packed snow-ice on everything that isn’t a major highway. Some spots the snow banks on the side of the road have to be 15 foot tall!
I spent some time checking propane gauges. This one is good yet.
I was shoveling sidewalks. Well, where they ought to be at least. This was over knee deep for me. Other spots I was shoveling, I step off, and go waist deep – and never touched bottom.
The girls washed the windows with their faces…
Missing grandpa. He was in the ICU.
Getting artwork posted at a restaurant.
Cutting wood. My dad has the process down pretty well. No bending over, no working too hard. Haul the long pieces in, drop them into the saw horses, cut them to size, load them into the truck. There is a wood splitter by the tailgate for the oversized pieces.
Fresh wood to be cut. This is stuff from a local saw mill. All red oak.
Fast-freeze hot food. No shocking the freezer this way.
We went to the Mall of America to ‘finish off’ the week doing something other than taking care of ill grandparents. The backpack is full of our winter jackets.
Bella LOVED the rides. She did this one twice!
I can't find a name on it, just the number 100. It is missing the leather drive belt, probably eaten by mice.
Once I cleaned the mouse nest out of the blower, everything seems to work. There is a slight hop in the big pulley, should be small enough that the leather belt can 'eat' it.
I think the cover may be a drain cover.
Anybody have an idea of the rough age of this guy? I've found a few pictures just like it online, but with no info.
I think my wife and father did a pretty good job on this forge.
A sharp knife, some scrap leather and an hour, and I have a handy little reference that should stay nice for a long time and not need to be recharged!
In album POCKET REF Leather Cover
The finished book cover. I decided not to dye it black. It took me an hour to make, start to finish.
Flipping through my new favorite book! The case opens up so I can take the book out. Should keep the cover nicer, longer.
Well, the book fits, but I think I can do better than this.
The bits and pieces I need for making a cover for my Pocket Ref. A piece of leather out of a ‘scrap leather’ bag from a hobby store, a sharp knife, a cutting mat, Neatsfoot Oil and Dye.
The leather was an assortment grab bag. I was lucky I had a piece that was big enough I could make something work. There was another piece with a color I liked better, but I couldn’t get something I liked cut out of it.
Works this way…
And it works this way…
I used the cutting mat to mark the cut lines. Just slide it along on the edge. Visible marks on the suede side of the leather. I also oiled the finished side at this point so the oil has a chance to soak in before I dye it.
Measure twice, cut once. Cut isn’t perfectly straight, but it’s good enough for me.
I cut a belt and a belt loop out of the short side fold overs.
The book just sits in this case for safe carrying.
Fold and mark the tie strap locations. The little triangle is from whatever this was to be originally. Alignment marks or something.
Some strips from trimming the edges to fit better are tied on the inside.
A tidy wrap for a tiny book.
