Sorting through the shop

Posted on 11th February 2012 in Friends/Family, Home and Garden, Life, Opinion, Technology/Gadgets

Aunt Betty asked me to help clean out the garage and shop, and to see if there were any tools in either location that belonged to Uncle Bernard that I would like to keep for myself before she donates the rest to the local high school shop class. So I’ve been trying to go over to her place every weekend for a couple of hours to straighten up, throw out the junk, pick out what I want and put the rest aside for the donation box.

So far I’ve picked out a couple of miller welders and some snap-on tools to keep for myself. Also some Sears craftsman tools. As far as I’m concerned you can never have too many snap-on or craftsman tools!

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The wind was really strong today

Posted on 10th February 2012 in Friends/Family, Life, weather

When my wife and I finished the dishes after supper she told me that she had a little incident happen with her car today. You just can’t even imagine the fear that strikes in my heart when she starts out with a comment like that. Bracing myself for the worst, I asked her what happened. She told me that the wind was so strong today that when she was getting out of her car at work the wind gusted and caught the car door and bent the hinges so that she could not close the car door!

Well, that was certainly an unusual thing to happen. So I asked her what did she do about it, and where is the car now? She told me that she had to tie the door closed with the dog leashes she kept in the car so that she could drive it, and that it is parked in the garage. I guess I’ll have to take a look at it tomorrow morning and see what needs to be done.

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Not something I think about too much

Posted on 10th February 2012 in Environment, Friends/Family, Home and Garden, Internet, Life, Opinion

To be perfectly honest, interior design is not something that I spend a lot of time thinking about. Sure, it’s nice to have colors coordinated, and it’s nice to have the furniture look like it was all designed in the same style, but being a guy who prefers spending time in his “man cave” or in the garage, I leave the details of the interior design of the house to my wife.

Today when I came home I noticed that my wife had put a boot tray by the front door, and had positioned some boots and shoes on it. And she had a couple of cardboard boxes marked “donate” filled with some old clothes on the floor nearby. I asked her what was going on and she told me that she had been looking at an interior design website that had led her to a webpage about living greener and she decided to put some of their suggestions into action. Well, I have to agree that it makes good sense to donate old clothes and leave the shoes/boots by the door, but I don’t know how easy it is going to be for me to remember to take my shoes off when I come inside. We never had to do that at my parent’s house when we were growing up, so it may take a while to get re-trained.

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