Hell has frozen......

 No, really. 

Just kidding. Just because Dad has sent a birthday card so that it arrived early......yeah, it's amazing. LOL 

But he asked when I'd ever update my blog. Uhhhhhh, yeah it's been a while. So here goes. Updating a few things. My last post was about the garage table/work bench. Here's how I like it it.

It's great, except for when it's not. You may call me Captain Obvious. It's just the right size for having a mower on it except for when I want to tip the mower on the side. Then it's simultaneously too big and too small. Too big because it's too hard to reach the blade to take off to sharpen. Too small because I have to move the mower away from the side that it'll be sitting on when it's on the side. 

In case you're curious how to know which side to put it........always have it so the carb is up. Don't know where the carb is? it's where the air filter is. And it's on the opposite side of the oil fill/dipstick tube.  Carb up, so it won't fill with oil.......

I like the wheels, except when it moves around when I want it to stand still. The locks work, unless the wheels are pointing a couple of ways....because the ends of the legs are a little too big. But the wheels are nice when I need to weld something on the mower (or snowblower) OR did we know this when I posted the orig? The table is 1/2" shorter than the tailgate of my pickup, which makes it quite easy to transfer the victims. The table is way higher than the lesbian, so it's of no use when I haul one home in there. 

The height is just right, most of the time. The matching step is helpful, too. I put a shelf, about midway up, and it's nice....except for when the crap vibrates off when something is running. I hardly ever use the light I put on it, in fact it's off way more often than it's on. I don't often use the plugs I put on it, either. 

Did we talk about that light? It's a desk/utility lamp, the kind that has some pivots and will bend around a couple different ways. And it's always in the way...and doesn't bend around to look in the right way. 

There's a nail that sticks down thru the stringer stretcher horizontal frame piece on the end where I grab the table to move it into the right place. Probably the day after it perforates my finger I'll cut it off.  I'm happy with the wood that I used. I am happy that the white kinda peels off showing the blue of the old bench that I reused.

I use the table for other stuff, like potting plants and getting the charcoal ready for the smoker, and vacuum repair and probably a few other things that I can't remember right now. 

A few other things in life? Sure. Last August I took a job delivering truck parts, leaving the limo driving job. I work in the store a couple hours a day and drive  several hours a day, roughly 230 miles, in a 2018 Volvo VNL, with a 26' box.  Rated 33,000, and I don't even ever get half that. I have filled it a few times, and that's fun.  If you see my office view on the FB, you've seen it a few times. 

My elm tree and a maple got severely trimmed last winter. They took down another maple and an ash.......I had planted the maple when I lost the other elm. I planted the ash to replace the ?? that replace the other red maple that I planted when I got the house.  Now my swing gets NO shade in the afternoon and I'm rather not happy about that. I'm thankful the elm has survived, though.  BTW, the maple that also got trimmed was new in 2007; Val mowed it off once, and now it's more than 30' tall. A walnut was planted by a squirrel next to the elm I took down in 2014 and I'm trying to decide if I want to keep it. I'm thinking no. I've got a dead tree next to the neighbor's fence that needs to come down. There's a tree in my lilac bush that should come down.