Building Stool Differently

I got an early start working in the garage this morning.  I cut some of the poor pieces of wood into smaller pieces of fire wood.  I came across a hard wood handle for a hoe or some other garden tool.

I had whole bunch of shovels or spades with missing or broken handles.  One of those was setting on my workbench.  I carved the handle some and force in the handless spade.  I sharpened it and went out to the garden were if cut weeds.  The above photo shows the shovel.

I filled the two wheel, wheel barrow with pots full of soil.

I dumped them where I am going to plant strawberries.

The chickens were out of Hen Scratch.  I opened the bag.  It is usually easy to pull the string and open the sack.  I finally had to use a knife and scissors to open it.   I wanted to make another stool and build in a little different way.  I would begin by making the rails and put them together first.  I got two four foot 2x4's and ripped them into two 3.5x 1/2 inch slabs.  I first made the leg pieces.  There were eight of them.  Any pieces left over would be used for the rails.  I made four sort ones and four longer ones.  I glued the two short rails together and secured them with my pin nailer. And I did the same with them also,

I opened both doors because there was a brisk wind coming from the south.  I intended to blow out all of the sawdust.  I left for awhile and when I came back the two chickens walked out through the garage to the front yard.

I put them together and glued and pinned them to make a box. Then I glued and pinned the legs to the box.

and ended up with the stool with out a seat.

I made the seat by ripping another 2x4.  I cut them in twelve inch pieces.   I glued and pinned one on one side and the other on the other side.  I cut my  finger by holding the wood against the fence. I was shaving a little off the last piece.  The piece was a little narrow and I cut th edge of my finger.   The last  The above picture was taken in the garage with the south door open.

I to the stool outside and got this picture.

I made two narrow strips and glued and pinned them to the rails.

Then the final piece for the middle.  I trimmed the edges by putting the stool upside down on the table saw.

Here it is finished.  I chamfered the edges for a finished look.  If I used new redwood, I think that I could make these in less than an hour.

The is the one if made yesterday,  I used a half inch piece of plywood for the seat.  I also chamfered the seat with my router.


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Patio is Much Improved.

I planned on building a small bench today using pin nails and glue.  I even dreamed about it.  I quickly changed my mind. Over the last six months I have been putting various pieces of lumber on the patio.  There were a lot of sixteen foot 2x4's and another bunch of four foot 2x4's and a few shorter ones.

Carol started this puzzle yesterday and finished it this morning.  She has finished a thousand piece jig saw puzzle in a day.

I caught, Shadow our cat, on a branch of the Red Bud tree.  I think he was waiting for a bird to land nearby.

The patio has been covered with wood all winter long.  I took the sixteen foot 2x4's to the shed.  I stacked them on the west side of the shed.

 I loaded the shorter pieces on the cart and put a piece of the snow fence on top of it.  I couldn't decide where to put these for some time.  I could put them by the shed and the other place would be north of our garden.  I finally decided to put them near the sweet potato raised bed.

I put the plywood down and then stacked the rest of the wood on top of it.  The four foot 2x4's are on the far side and the shorter pieces are in front.  They are handy to the garage where I can use the for building projects.

 I planted two different corn verities.  Early Sun Grow, an early verity, and Jubilee, a later verity.  One 1206 of each one.

The Red Beets that I planted early last week are beginning to germinate.

Such nice weather prompted me to let the two hens out where they may find some green stuff to eat.

In the afternoon I started the stool using glue and pin nails.  I used three eight foot weathered 1x2's.  The above photo shows how I glued and pinned them together.

This photo shows how the rails and legs were fastened together.

The rails were built with two 1x2's glued on top of each other.   Tomorrow I will built the seat.  But tomorrow may bring something else to the front.

As I have been looking at the stool, I think that it would be easier to build if I made the rails first and the put the on the legs.


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29 March - Church at Home

Fast Sunday today.  President Russel M. Nelson, president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints  asked everyone to fast and pray for the end of Covid-19.  There are four death in Utah due to the Covid-19.  So we chose to fast.   I showered and shaved this morning and put on my suit in reverence to the sabbath.

I read Mosiah 2 and posted a few comments on face about this chapter.

Carol prepared most of the dinner.  We started our church services at nine.  I administered the sacrament as instructed by our church leaders.  We watched two Book of Mormon videos and another video about preparing for General conference.

Our dinner consisted of a roast that was in a slow cooker for eight hours, mashed potatoes and gravy, peas, carrots, and I had sweet potato that was in the slow cooker for about five hours.  All of it was good.  

Later I walked out to the garden and this picture of the rhubarb that is doing so well this spring.  A row of peas is going nest to the rhubarb  is coming up solid.  The carrots are coming up and are fairly easy to see.  I looks like the  radishes are starting to germnate.

I watered the tree and found two red buds.  I also watered the decennia and the trays on the germinating bench.


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Current Bush and Silver Buffalo Berry

I didn't get a photo, but this morning I began to sand the redwood stool that I made yesterday.  

All of the seat slats were not the same thickness.  The orbit sander had medium sand paper on it.  I sanded and sanded some more.  Then I to the router and chamfered the edges all the way around.  I then to the edge off the sharp corners.  It has a finished look to it now.

Yesterday, Carol put this puzzle together.  I helped.  She was doing the edges and I was turning over all of the other pieces.

Yesterday, I made a fence for the drill press.   It has a stop block so I was able to drill holes in the stool legs in the same place.  I then moved the stop block back a little,  turned the leg to the next side and then drilled one more hole.

I wanted another germination bench in house five.  There was one next to house three.  I loaded all of the plants on the card and took them to the raised bed in our garden.

The bench is on the cart.  The plywood to was in such poor condition. I cut the worst part away with the battery operated circular saw.  

I needed two block for the other bench.  For some reason I got four.

The weeds where the bench is going or large and healthy. I dug all of them up.

It is lunch time.  I made a large salad.

This is a photo of the west bench.  I didn't screw plywood to the 2x4's, but later I did.

I had to bet two more blocks to make this work bench.   I will be planting here.

The above photo show the two benches .

Wade Lemon and two of his helpers came over.  Wade dug the small Silver Buffalo Berry shrubs that were on the north side of house five.  His two helpers dug up one large one that was outside next to house five.  They then dug up a lot of Golden current bush north of house three.


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Market, Our Weekly Trip

The Fillmore Market offered one hour of shopping for old fogies or older people in their market.  It started at seven a.m.  It was yesterday morning.  We didn't go because of eight inches of snow.

We went this morning at eight.  There were only a few shoppers in the store.  We spent over $100.

There were a lot of leaves in the garage.  Carol asked me to clean them.  I backed the car out of the garage.  I swept the leaves that had fallen of the lemon tree out to the middle of the garage.  I finished up with the blower.

I started to prepare and other germination bench and ended up getting the two sheets of half inch plywood that was on the last bench south of house one.  The photo of the bench is above.

I loaded both of them on the two wheel cart and pushed them out to the shed.

I can use it when I make the four foot extension on the south side of the she.  I need two more for the added roof.

I have been going to make a drill press fence.  I watched the video and it was to complicated for me to follow.  The one he made was a good one.  I modified the one that he made and made my own.  It took quite awhile to make it and it does the job.

I opened the door and the red hen hoped in.  I threw her a little hen scratch.  The other hen also came in.  I was leaving, but the red hen didn't want to leave.  Some lout clapping caused he to go back outside.

So what did I do?  I used the drill press to make holes in the legs of this stool.  I made the rails and the legs out of one eight foot 2x2 red wood.  I was able to put it together rather quickly.  I made the seat out 2x4's ripped in half.  I applied glue and pinned them to the rails with my pin gun.  It needs some sanding and a finnish.


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Eight Inches of Snow

Fillmore Market has invited seniors for a special shopping 7 to 8 on Tuesday and Thursday mornings.  We were going to go this morning,

but this morning we woke up to snow.  It continued until ten.  There was eight inches of snow on the back lawn.   The above photo is north of the garage.

Later, I got it all cleaned off.

 A picture of our house.  I took this picture on the road looking south to our front porch.

I am making thin strips of wood to use as plant labels.  I put the 2x4 on its edge and cut a kerf in the wood. 

I slid the fence close to the blade.  I then lowered the blade and turned on the saw.  I raised the blade and it cut up through the Masonite.  I ripped the 2x4 and ended up with two small pieces of wood.

The wood pieces went down with the sawdust.  The Masonite prevents the wood from falling.

Above is a list of the seeds planted this afternoon.  I planted six, six packs of each of the above seeds.

I would have done more by the potting soil is covered with snow.  I had three trays left over from yesterday.  

 Above is a late afternoon east of the greenhouses.  It shows the two trees that we would have cut down today if it didn't snow.  One is on the left and the other one is on the right that looks like it is growing out of the landscape rooks.


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