Sunday, February 11, 2018

Year 18, Week 04, Day One (week 944)

Year 18, Week 04, Day One (week 944)
(January 17, 2000 was my first carving day.)
02-10-18 Saturday

76 degrees early morning 83 degrees late afternoon, some light showers zipping past from the south, but not around long enough to warrant opening an umbrella, but slow enough to get you wet. These died down quickly as the day went on. This weather report is brought to you by the City Of Pompano Beach Department Of Tourism.

The awning of the work area is still not repaired Parts were being made but the time had not been available to do it. My lathe is still in storage. I have not touched it. I have not touched the knife either. I should sit outside and make some wood chips and work on ornaments for next year. I have many ideas of what I could do.

One family member is ill so I have spent all my spare time with them, giving the care givers support. That has eliminated ANY spare time I normally would have. 
My feet are healed but I have to get back into condition again. One of my favorite grocery stores relocated absolutely everything in the “dry good” isles. I’ve walked the entire store just to get a concept of where I might find something. I do not like the arrangement but won’t stop going to the store. It is good exercise to walk all the isles as it is one of the superstores.  I do walk a couple other stores but they are smaller ones so it is not any real exercise. 

About the only crafts I have worked on is crochet. I am about two rows of finishing a scarf. It is in yarn given to me for Christmas. 

The South Florida Renaissance fair is starting this month. I would love to go to it but I am not in any condition to walk the distance from parking to the gate, let alone inside the fair. In the years I used to go to the fairs, I would walk it quickly first, to see what venders were there as you get to know them after many visits. After that, I would go one more time around, at minimum, with the idea of really looking at everything. They have some great crafts. I was never one to sit and watch the shows and I never made it a day. That was a problem back in the 80s when I was heavily in photography. I have a tendency of going and going until I can go no more, before stopping.   I never wanted to rest, but instead to see what was around the corner. That does not work in my condition right now. 

The weather has not been great for yard sailing. Morning showers or early rains dissuade people going through the effort of dragging all the stuff out. The yard sales I have visited over the past month has not had much that needed to come home with me. The only thing I can mention of any worth was a pair of metal saw horses that I picked up last month, and a pair of bongos with carrying case. I have not picked up more than about ten dollars of small stuff over the past month, and that would be stretching things. 
Most of the stuff that were really interesting, was stuff I had no place for. Also, a lot of the really interesting stuff that was really interesting was stuff I already have too many of. 

I entirely missed the Wood Turning Club meeting last week. I realized it was that week two days later when I received an E-mail about it. I will miss this month’s meeting as it is on a day I already have scheduled. They had problems with the meeting site and had to postpone it to the week later and on the wrong day for me.

I need to get back to wood working. I am itching to get started but life has gotten ahead of me. 

I will see what happens with the next post, since these have not been weekly as of late.
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