Can Storage

Several years ago I made a can storage device and put it in the pantry.  I took quite a bit of room and was not very convenient.   I decided that I would make another one.   After watching several You Tube videos I made a plan.  I got a can of fruit and measured the height and width.  I drew a plan on some paper and put the dimensions.

The height was 34 inches and the width was 24 inches.   There was a piece of plywood that was a little bit larger and with one cut edge that wasn't parallel to the oppoisite endge.  I cut off the badge with my new battery opperated circiler saw.  It would cut a little way and stop.  I tried it several times and decided that the battery nearly dead.  I put on a new battery and it cut without even slowing down.  I put a couple of heavy weights  on the plywood to keep it from moving while I sawed.

I ripped 34 inch 2x4's on their edge in half.  They are leaning against my table saw.

We drove to Fillmore and got a few groceries.  I bought two pounds of screws.

I got a picture of new hemp plants in house five.  Dustin was pruning and the other guy was watering.

Here is how the can sections might look when finished,  I put the dividers with spacer and then clamped it all together. This is  how the can rack will look

I sanded the plywood and also the rack dividers.

What Should I Do Today

Yesterday, I got my blue chisels out.  I watched four or five You Tube videos.  They were pretty, but took a long time.  I couldn't see a good way to make something.  I finally come up with what I thought was a good plan.

I made a rack with two pieces of wood with three short spacers.  One each end and one in the middle hooked together with three screws.    I devised a way to hold it in place.  A small piece of wood was fasten at each end that went across the front and back.  A heavy object was placed on it on the other side. 

I walked out to house six and watered the tomato plants.  All of the blossoms have been harvested and the bag and pots emptied.  The potting soil is on the right side.  They are bring in more plants.

Dustin has removed his shirt while emptying the pots in house five.

Whenever I work with wood in the garage which is most of the time, it gets really dusty.  Sometime ago I bought a furnace filter to use in the garage.  I attached it to a twenty inch window fan with duck tape.  There are two strips on each edge of the fan.

 Here is a photo show the other side.  The air would blow in the facing directions.

There is so much scrap wood on the back half of the garage, thought I would make a box with shelves or compartments to hold the various sizes.   I cut some piece of plywood to the correct sizes need.  The I asked myself.  "Where am I going to put the box?"  There wasn't any place.  Therefore, I begin to move wood and make a place.  I moved wood around.  That didn't help either.  There was a lot of scrap wood around my radial arm saw.  I took the above photo after I had moved most of the wood.  There were a lot of pieces of lath.  They were used to mark all of the iris plants that I bought when we moved here over twenty years ago.   They are going out to the shed.

This is how it looked when if finished.  I ended up with a garbage can half full of sawdust.


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Silver and Family History

During the night the thought that came into my mind was the file cabinet in house one.  It has been there for years.  I will take it to the garage.  It will make a good place for my hand held power tools.  I found the small handcart and was able take the cabinet to the garage.

I put two tools in each drawer.  In the other drawer I put the heavy pin nails in it.  I then attached labels to the front of each drawer.  I won't have to open each drawer to find the tool that I needed.

There is a box on the east side of my bedroom that contains a Book of Remembrance that belonged to Carol's mother.  I got it out and read parts of the history.  Carol is reading more of it.  There are missionary stories.  Plural marriage stories, and other interesting things.

A silverware box is on the floor next to a dresser.  It had a lot of dinnerware and some silver ware.  There was a partial setting of eight teaspoons, four knives, and some forks and soup spoons.  It also had some older silver ware which showed a lot of patina.

The above picture shows the dinnerware.  There were only a few that matched.


Comments and questions are welcome.

Tuesday Morning

We spent the morning at the Manti Utah temple.  After our shift we had lunch.  We stopped at the Top Spot for ice cream.  They had chocolate ice cream.  This is the third time this month.

I worked on the ward history for several hours this afternoon.  Weather is quite cool.

Unexpected Activities

I was in the house helping with washing the sheets.  That takes about two hours to have them washed and dried and put back on the beds.  I then did a little work in the garage.  We then drove to Fillmore for a few groceries  and I returned some pin nails that didn't work with my nail gun to Ace Hardware.

When we got home I began work again in the garage.  I didn't build anything, but threw some things away and took stuff out to the shed.

I planted peas last fall.  The set in the ground without any rain.  We have had quite a lot of snow and rain this winter.  The warmer weather has caused a few of them to germinate.   I hope this sign of spring, to get a lot thicker.

These annual weeds is another sign of spring.  I have seen a few robins.

Most of the hemp blossoms have been harvested.   Jessen is shredding the naked stems.

A lot of my garden tools are leaning against the wall.  I built a couple of little wooden hooks to hold more tools.  At the bottom of the picture the is a heavy rack and just above it is a narrow rack.

Here is the rack holding all of the tools.

Sampson, which we haven't seen for several weeks showed up.  He was eating and looked up when I got this photo.  

Another not planned project.  I haven't seen the top of this work bench since the day I built it.  It doesn't take long to get screws, tools, wood, and other thing piled all over it.s

On top of the bencher staples, and pin nails for myh nail gun.  Some were 18 gage which is use by my nail gun.  the others were 16 gage used by a nail gun that I used to have.  I couldn't get it to work so I threw it away and bought me a new one which use 18 gage pins.

During the cleaning I found crank that is turned to move the jig fence to the saw blade. I didn't know just what it was until I put the jig on top of the table saw.  You can see the crank on the right edge of the photo.  This Delta tenon jig was all dusty.    I cleaned it up.

This tote contains some electronic part and some kitchen utensils that we don't use any more and that there is no room in the kitchen drawer for them.  Got more electronic part that were in a bathroom drawer and put them the tote.  I took the tote out too the shed.

Lastly, I got the Delta Tenon jig fixed and cut this tenon out of a small piece of pine.

I hope to build a small greenhouse in the garden west of the garage next week.


Comments and questions are welcome.

Sunday Morning.

Robert and Jeanne will be here around one.  We prepared the food for our Sunday dinner.  I dug carrots.  Carol peeled them and diced them with our new dicer.  It works well.  We boiled potatoes last night for funeral potatoes.  Carol put the roast in the slower cooker a little after four this morning.  I made some tapioca pudding.  We then went to church,  The meeting went very well.

They were here at one and dinner was ready.  We had a good visit.  I showed Robert around the nursery where they are harvesting hemp.  I think that they shouldn't do this on Sunday.  The weather is quite warm for this time of the year.

Questions and comments are welcome.

More Deer

When I looked out the kitchen window this morning, there was a small herd of deer by the raspberry plants and the orchard.  It is always fun to see the deer in our yard, but not much fun when they eat small fruit tree branches and grape plants.  I hurried out side and scared them away.  They run to the southwest corner of our yard, jumped over the fence and ran away.  I could not count them because of how quickly left.  When they stopped, they were two far way to count them.  However, it looked like there were eight or nine deer.  I saw no antlers.  We haven't seen deer for a long time.  We thought that they were gone for good.

We had a nice day at the Manti Utah temple this afternoon.

When I checked on the two hens,  their water pot was frozen a little.   It made an interesting pattern.

Another photo.  If that design could be duplicated on a piece of paper, it would make a nice picture.


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Two Days

I couldn't log on to the internet for a couple of days.  Finally I unplugged the router and plugged it back in again.  That worked and it has been working ever since.  But that is just today.

23 January:  Thursday

This morning we drove to Utah County.  Our first stop was at the Payson Walmart where we bought three items.  Our next stop was in Prove at Sam's Club.  We let there with some groceries and other household items.  We drove to Orem where we stopped at TJ Max.  Robert gave Carol a $50 gift certificate.

I stopped in front of this large mirror and took a picture.  I wanted a picture of the jacket and tee shirt that Lisa gave me.

There were a couple of small wooden boxes.  I may make some that are similar.

A different angle.

Here is a letter box.

We were home fairly early in the afternoon.  I had Carol take this picture.   It is kind of heavy shirt or like jacket.  With the tee shirt I can wear it open.

The bird feeder was empty.  I took it down and filled it with a bird feed mix.

The snow was soft.  I pulled out all of the extension cords.  I removed the light around the post and the rope light.  I took a while to prepare them for storage.

I put all of the lights except the rope light in the totes.

I hung the rope light on a hook in the shed.

24 January:  Friday 

I carried on roll of snow fence to the patio.

I have been taking apart this snow fence and using the lath for making boxes.  I have made boxes for potatoes and onions.  It has been hard to hold slats with glue applied to the end of the slat to the end of the rail.  While doing this drive a pin to hold them together.

 I made the above jig which may be difficult to explain and to understand.  The base is made out 30x15 half inch plywood.   I glued a small strip of wood across the top.  Not clear on the above photo.  I made two small 'L's.  The one of the left is a mirror image of the on the right.  The one on the right is glued to the plywood.  The two rails sitting flat on the plywood.

I put the slats in place, then clamped the upside  'L' on the left to the plywood.  I glued the top and bottom stats to the rail and drove in the pins.   Then the same for the next two.  Last is the one in the middle.

Back to the greenhouses.  House five is no empty.   All of the blossoms are harvested.  It looks strange.  

 The harvesting crew moved to house six where worked more in an assembly line method.

A machine has a drum that spins.  The harvested flowers prepared for drying by starting at one end and drops into the box on the other end.   Dustin Smith is operating the machine.

I continued to take items out of the garage and take them out to the shed.   The two buckets on the top shelf are full of Sevin 5 Bait.  I got it for Mormon Crickets.    I labeled them.  I don't know what to do with them.  We don't have crickets and if we did, birds would eat the dead crickets and cats would eat the prisoned birds.

 A close-up of the two buckets.

I moved the twenty-two foot pipes that were in the way of the shed by the grape plants.  They were laying on the ground.  I put some 2x4 pieces on the ground and put the pipes on top of them to keep them out of the mud.

The east end of the shed is pretty much filled up.

Closing this blog I have decided not to use the lath from a snow fence.  It takes a lot of work and the quality of the lath is inferior.  From now on I will buy lath.

Comments and questions are welcome.