Table Saw Sled and Small Table

We have been to the temple all morning.  As soon as we got home, I changed my clothes and went out the garage.

This is the small table upside down.  Yesterday, I glued the gray blocks to the skirt.  I put screws through the holes in the gray blocks and drove screws through the oak blocks into the table.  The legs are secured to the table top.

Using half inch screws I secured the runners to the base.  Now I am in the process to make the guides for cutting perfect miters.  The photo above shows how it will set on the base. There should be a ninety degree angle as represented by the speed square.  

I am making the angle guides out of some old 3/4 inch plywood.  there are two pieces about two inches wide glued together. I then drove screws through them to hold them together. Hope to finish tomorrow.  I need a right angle triangle to get an accurate corner. 

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Three Days in One

Friday evening the internet  died.  I was working on the blog.  Saturday morning it was working.  But I had to start over and it gave me Saturday's date.

I one of our neighbors died last week and they wanted the choir to sing a couple of songs.  I was there most of the morning.  

I needed a way to connect the table top to the legs without driving a screw though the top of the table in to the legs are skirts.  The above photo shows the legs upside down on the table top which is also upside down. I glued four small oak blocks to the bottom next to the legs.

There is a heavy gear on a piece of plywood holding the blocks to the table top.  Later I removed the weight and plywood.  Two of the blocks did not stick.  I applied more glue and left it over Sunday until Monday morning (today), 

This afternoon I glued some blocks to the skirt.  There is a pair of clamps on the right side holding blocks. First I glued them to the oak blocks.  I realized my mistake took them off  Each in each block is a hole.  A screw through the hole into the oak block will firmly hold the top.

l watched an You Tube video showing how to make a miter table saw sled.  First of all I could not find the other table piece.  I finally found it behind the patio cushion.  I trimmed off the double layers.  I had to watch the video again to find out what was next.  First I had to make a pair of runners.  One each for the slots on either side of the blade.  I cut one pair and they were to loose.  I cut another one and it wouldd not fit.  By moving the fence very so slightly to the left several times got one to fit and then I cut the other one.  Next step is to glue them to the board.  I put washers in the slots to elevate the runners.  I applied the glue and a heavy bucket of potatoes on top.  It helped press board one the runners.

I used a my belt sander to make the table top smooth.  There are a lot of saw marks.  I sanded with the grain; across the grain.  I rotated it forty-five degrees and sanded more.  I then used my orbit sander for a fine smooth.

The bird feeder has been empty for about twenty-four hours.  It has been raining some and when it was almost quit.  I put out hen scratch for the birds.

The photos from my Samsung phone were washed out.  They were not at all bright.  I took this photo last week of our poinsettia and the red candle.  They looked a lot better than what I took a month ago.


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Set Back & Working on the Stool

The birds are eating a lot of bird feed.  It was completely empty this morning.  I put the ladder next to the tree where it is hanging.  I used a funnel from the kitchen, and poured seed into the three tubes.   It took all of the bird seed.  I finished filling it with chicken scratch.  From what I observed this evening, the like the bird seed the best.  We will see when we get home from the temple tomorrow.

We drove to Fillmore for a few groceries and to make a deposit at the bank.  While at the market I got four sweet potatoes.

It is time to grow sweet potato starts.  I two of the potatoes would fit into a plastic mayonnaise jar and I had to find large mouth quart jars for the other two.  One was in the pantry and the other one was under the house in a box of glass mayonnaises bottles.  I inserted three round tooth picks in the stem end of the potato.  The tooth picks hold them up some.   

My photo shooting skills is lacking.   I filled the bottles with water and they are sitting in the south window in the kitchen.

I worked all afternoon on this stool.  It looks more like a small table.  I cut the top two fourteen inches.  I built the cross braces first.  I predrilled two holes for the screws and counter sunk them.  I glued them and drove in the screws.   I then attached the four legs.  I put it upside down to attach the skirt.  These were mitered and I cut the miters several times before the skirt was the right length.  One of the legs cracked when I drove in one of the screws.  I had to take it of and use a new one.  The top is just sitting there.  I may fasten it tomorrow.  I have to remove all the skirts and glue them to the legs and then re-insert the screws.

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Shopping Utah County

We left home a little after nine and stopped at several stores.  WalMart, Costco, Sam's Club, Toys R Us and had lunch at In & Out.  After lunch we stopped at the DI where Carol bought a bunch of books.

I am working on the top of this stool.  It was large and rugged.  I cut it to sixteen inches square.  As I think about it, it seems to be way to big. It is two inches shorter than the one on the house that I was comparing it with.  Tomorrow I will cut of two more inches.   I need to shorten the stretchers and the skirt.  The length of the legs will remain the same.

 We drove to Provo to get some supplies and to use the home depot card the Eric and April gave me.  There were several things that I wanted, but decided with this jigsaw.

After we got home and unloaded the car, I went to work to get it to work.  I read the directions and they were fairly typical of other directions of other tools in the shop.  I could not get the blade to stay in.  I tried over and over.  Finally I looked at the tilt of the base and it was off by a couple of degrees.  I changed that and the blade went right in and stayed.

There was a package at our front door from Amazon.  It was ordered by Lisa and Eric.  In the box was a black hunting vest and a pair of pants.  The vest had pockets all over.  Many were for bullets.  I put one cell phone in one of the pockets and the other cell phone which I use as a camera in another pocket.  The pants were a little long and had extra pockets on the pant legs.

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A Helping Hand

We had breakfast at the usual time which is between seven and eight.  I like to watch the news on channel four at seven and then watch and watch it again on channel two.  There is some differences between the two channels.

I worked in the garage for a half hour.  Then I drove over to Jim Masner's house to help him but away his outdoor nativity pieces.  Some were five to six feet tall, and there was about twenty pieces.  Most of the pieces were attached to rebar that was pounded into the ground.  Jim had a storage shed where they are stored.

I came home and began work in the garage.

Above it a photo of the top of a stool where we can place a potted plant or some other item of interest.  I am making two of them.  I cut out most of the parts. I have the top glued together as shown above.  I cut a 2x4 in half to end up with two 1x4s.  cutting it in half and opening it like a book it shows one piece and anther mirror image of it.  One above shows a large nail hole where the wood is stained black.  There were three pairs.  I glued each pair and in the afternoon I glued the three pairs together.  The glue hand not set up and some piece came apart.  I used pipe clamgs to glue them back together.

I begin working on the stool's skirt.  I cut sixteen in 2x4s and planed them to the same thickness which is about 5/8" thick and 2 1/2 inches wide..  Four pieces had to have a 45 degree mightier.  I tried the mightier saw and that didn't make good fit.  I use the table saw and that didn't work well.  

I found a pair of miter clamps which is shown at the bottom of the above picture.  The miter gauge that came with the saw couldn't hold the skirt plumb.  I built an attachment out of a piece of oak, which is shown above the miter clamp.  The problem was getting the right angle.  I cut a lot of pieces that were less than a 45 and more than a 45.  Finally I got it right I think.  It took me a long time.

 I put all of the extension cords in house three.  They are held in large coil with a piece of twine tied together at each end.  I cut about twenty inches of twine and tie bother ends together.

 I hang them on a piece of conduit attached to a 2x4 stud.

There are nine extension cord hanging.  The male ends and the female ends are hanging below the coil which helps prevent them from getting tangled.

 It cot pretty cold last night and the Devil's Ice Tower is a little larger.

Here is a closer view.  I looks pretty cool,, excuse the pun.

At the end of the day I filled a wheelbarrow twice with old potting soil and dumped them into the raised bed.  I brought in two more 2x6x12 for another raised bed.  The plan here is to have a year around garden.


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Ourdoor Christmas Light Put Up

We were at the Manti Temple this morning and made it back home around two this afternoon.  Changed clothes and went right to work on removing the rest of the outdoor lights.  As I removed them left them on the lawn where the sun was shining.  Our house faces the north and in the winter half of the front lawn is in the shade.

I watched a You Tube video showing how to put Christmas lights away.  They used a box, but I chose to use the small tote.  This tote is filled with strings of Christmas lights.  I fed on string in on the bottom of the tote in a circular motions.  I then put a half sheet of newspaper on top of it.  I put in another string the same way.  I continued  with more strings until I had over a dozen light in the tote.

I left two extension cords on the lawn last night.  I gathered them up and hung them with the rest of the cords in house three.

 I got all of the lights in five or six totes.  I put new labels on each tote to help me next December.

I put three totes on the bottom shelf and stacked the other totes on top of each other against the west wall.  They will be good there for awhile.

Yesterday Robert and began work on the raised beds.  I dismantled the rest of the bench.  Most of the parts are the 2x4's at the back left.


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New Years Day

The following two paragraph were put on my Face Book.  I wanted to express feelings rather than being specific.  

Today, I reached the big eight O, Those in the seventies are now young. Those In the nineties are the old ones. May you and your family be blessed this year.

My resolution: To be a better husband, father, grandfather and, great grandfather, and follow the example and teachings of Jesus Christ. Be a friend to all regardless of their social position, and be more forgiving.

Robert and Jeanne stopped to wish me happy birthday.  They brought a present which was a short stem ladder.  I have a tall one and with this won't have to stand on a chair on a chair to change lights.  We began re-arranging the in greenhouse two.  We worked for awhile and then went to lunch.

 We had one bench on cement blocks.  Actually it was a large box made out of 2x6's with a plywood bottom and a sheet of plywood, which had nearly rotted on top.  All of the cactus plants were on top of it. There is one barrel cactus that we saved with all of its little pups.  We kept starts of all of them two propagate new ones if needed.  We saved the bottom and moved the frame to the north-east corner of the greenhouse.  This will filled with soil grow something that likes winter coolness.

We made a new raised box which is on the left.  We another bench apart to make room for another raised bed.  We quite before we finished with it.

I gathered all of the large extension card that supplied power to the out door lights. There were nine of them.  I tied them with some twine and hung all but one in greenhouse three.

Robert and Jeanne left and I started the dreaded job of putting away the outdoor lights.  I put the strings of lights in a large tote.  I put to strings on the bottom and put a piece of newspaper onto top of them.  I then put a couple more string down and then the newspaper again.  This I continued.  I changed the procedure a little by rolling the strings in a sort of ball.  I was able to get six strings and then the newspaper again.  The newspaper help keep the stings from getting tangled.

It was getting later and the temperature was dropping.  I turned the water on for the Devil's Ice Tower.  I heard Tiger our cat, Climbing on top of house six.  I went out and got several pictures.  This one is the best of all of them.

Comments and questions are welcome.