Dr Anderson & Eagle Mountain

I spent all morning looking for the family history records that are on my laptop.  I couldn't find them. Carol has an appointment with the eye doctor is at eleven.

When we got back we had lunch

Miter Saw Cart

I wasn't much motivated to do anything to day.  I surfed Face Book.  On face book I saw some dimension for a miter box stand.  I drew up a crude simple plans and went to the garage to start building.  

I did a screen shot of the plans that were posted on Face Book.

The two of the legs have casters.  I have several casters that have a threaded bolt or stem that I screw into a drilled hole.   The don't hold well attached to end grain.  I cut this short piece of 2x4 and made the hole in the cross grain.  There are four holes for the screws.  Two on each edge.  I tried all of my larger bit sizes until I found one that was the perfect size.  I held the wood in the wood vice.  It was easy to start and to tighten.

 I screwed it to the two back legs.

My Ryobi battery operated circular is working beyond my espectation.  I had put in a fresh battery.  It doesn't slow down.

I finished the two side legs.  I cut two rails; the top one for the miter saw, and the bottom one for the corded circular saw.

I could have put most of the cart together, but Carol called and wanted me to help go through all of our photo books.  We spent the rest of the afternoon removing any photo of Eric, who passed away yesterday.  There were dozens of books which started when Carol and I were married.


Comments and questions are welcome.

Rebuilt Three times & Bad News

Monday morning is a wash day.  Carol washed the sheets and other things that was not washed Sunday, yesterday.  I help with making the beds.  I stayed in the house until about ten.  By then the Monday morning chores were finished.

I then went out the garage to work on the wood box.

This is how it looked last Friday.  It is lopsided, there is a divider through the center.

It will not hold and wood that are longer than fifteen inches.  I took it all apart except for the bottom and sides.  I removed a lot of screws.  I removed the center partition.  I have a hard time remembering to take photos of each step. It is to dark to get good photos.

I got it put together.  the bench for the radial arm saw was not level.  I adjusted the legs by removing the blocks under each leg.   I got it leveled front and back and left and right.   The wood storage box would not even fit.     

I started over.  I used some wedges.  With a lever I could lift the front or either side.  I then slid the wedge under the legs.  I checked the spirit level and then made more adjustment.  I the buble in the spirit level was not between the two marks, but close enough.

The wood box then fit under the table top.  When ever I need some wood, I can pull the box out and move it out of the way.  I pull wood out of either side.

One reason for the wood box was to remove all of the junk off the work bench.

Kim Caso on Face Book, saw some photos of Joshua trees near Monroe, Utah.  I posted the above photo of a Joshua tree in our yard.

We got a call from our daughter-in-law.  She was crying so much that we couldn't understand here.  The paramedics were called.  One of them took the phone and reported that our son Eric suffered from cardiac arrest.  He was hooked up to a machine that did chest compressions and breathing for him.  They worked on him for over forty minutes, but could not revive him.

We were in the car in about ten minutes on our way to the Lehi Hospital.  I turned on the GPS that gave is directions.  There is so much construction, and being dark going the directions did not seem to be right.  We finally found the hospital.  Eric Gray, Lisa's husband, was waiting for us and told us that he had passed away.  We didn't hear anything from the hospital while we were driving.  My hope was that they had revived him and he would be making a complete recovery.  It wasn't to be.

We were at the hospital a little before ten.  Lisa and Eric, Robert and Jeanne were there and some of our grandkids.  Richard came a little later.  Eric was laying on his back on the gurney.  This is one of the saddest days of our life.  He was fifty years old and left four children.  Four months, three years, and two who are five year old.

We left the hospital about ten.  We followed Robert and made our way back to the freeway.  We were home by twelve.

Comments and questions are welcome.

2x4's and Other Boards

2 February: Thursday
I worked most of the day on the box for storing small boards.  I built it twice.  I have a lot of pieces and ends of boards that I piled the under the extension of my radial arm saw.  I have had it for many years.  I moved the boards and they are on the floor and piled on benches where I don't have any place to work.  If I need some bench space, I have to move some boards to other places.

A couple of days ago I made storage for some of our canned food.  The above photo is of a divice I put on a shelf.  I can put items under it and then put things on top of it.

 I watered some of the plants that I have in house six.  The main one. the pomegranate, I hadn't watered for several days.  There are some tomato plants that are doing well.

Several have fruit on them.  The cherry tomatoes come on first.

I had to cut many of the pieces with my battery powered circular saw.  I put a heavy weight on my ruler.  It helped in drawing a straight line.

I thought that I was finished with the wood box, but I had made it completely wrong.  I removed the one side as shown in the above photo.  The plywood ends should be removed.  I ended up nearly taking it all apart.

If the ends are remove and the sides in place, I can put in the boards form either side.  Some photos at the end better illustrated how it is done.

 Here is one end with a bottom shelf and a top shelf.  The top shelf is at an angle.  I had to take off and fix it.

After lunch it went to Fillmore to get some screws and four castors.  I got two small ones and two large ones.  When I got home I put the two small ones on either side of the bottom.  That really help to move it around.  The large castors were way to big.  I went back to Ropers' and exchanged them for the smaller ones.  I worked another couple of hours taking apart and more rebuilding

The above photo shows how I attached the casters in a diamond pattern.  The two on the side are mounted on a piece of plywood.  The two on the ends are mounted directly to the wood box.  It is a whole lot easier to move.  

A closer looked at one of the ends of the wood box.  The box would not fit under part of the table saw.  I could cut some of the top or raise the radial arm saw.  I raised the saw 1 3/4 inches.  I put a short 2x4 under each leg of the saw.  That helped.  I have a work bench to the left of the saw.  I moved it about four inches to the left.  I can now push the wood box in and easily move it in and out.


Comments and questions are welcome.

Soup Can Storage

We have cans of tomato soup, chicken soup, and cream of chicken soup in the pantry.  As it sets on a shelf it is hard to know which is the new soup cans and which is the old soup.  I built a can rack several years ago.  This morning I decided today to make two more.

Above is a picture of the three can racks.  The one on the left is one I made several years ago.  The two on the right are the ones I made today.  I removed all the storage items on the shelf in the pantry,  Carol wondered why all those things were on the washer, dryer, and on the kitchen table.

I found all the material needed.  Pine wood, Masonite, and 1/2 inch plywood.  I measured the old one and then set the saw fence to begin cutting the pieces.   I cut a few boards for the bottom, and then decided that I could cut the bottom, top, end, and the two ramps, the top ramp and the bottom ramp,

That presented a new problem.  After I had cut the pieces, how would I be able to keep track of which was which.  I wrote on each piece, ie, top #1 and top #2. and so on.  I cut the sides out of Masonite that I found in the garage.

The pin gun really was a big help.  I glued the back edge to the bottom.  I made a couple of wedges to guide the cans in the right direction as they rolled down the top ramp to the bottom ramp.  I cut the Masonite sides and pinned them two the bottom and back.  I copied the angle of the ramps and pinned the ramps through the sides.

We went to Fillmore to make a couple of deposits and Carol got her eye drops at the drug store.

I finished the can storage.

Here is the finished the can rack.


Comments and questions are welcome.

New Shelf & Rebuilt Can Rack

The can rack is way to heavy.  It pulled the door a little and I couldn't close the tight.  The upper corner of the hit the door jam.

This is a picture from yesterday.  All of the cans cause the door to be out of plumb.

There was little over an inch of snow on the driveway this morning.  I took me about a half hour to push it to the sides.  

We then went to Fillmore where Carol bought groceries.  I went to State Bank of Southern Utah.  Carol Social Security went to her Wells Fargo account and I didn't know where mine went.  I found that mine went into Caro's account.  We will go backs next week.  We will call the Social Security people to get it straightened out.  I also deposited the greenhouse rent check.

I removed all the cans and took the rack to the garage.  I cut it in half.  This is the bottom half.  That was quite a challenge.  I put it on a table saw sled.  It was so heavy, that I couldn't even push it.  I put it upside down  on the workbench.  I measured from the bottom 53 1/4 inches.  And used my battery powered circular saw.  I like that little saw.  If I keep it saw straight, it cuts very easily.  I then turned it over so the face was up.  I drew a line across the compartments.  I followed the line, but the blade was not big to cut all the way through.  I used a handsaw to cut all the way through.

I got it fixed.   It contains the canned good.  It is still heavy and by keeping the door closed it will be supported some.  

The top shelf on the left in this photo wasn't there this morning.  I removed most of the storage items on the top shelf to make room for the new shelf.  That took most of the afternoon. All of the materials are things that I already had. Some of the things on the floor are not on one of the shelves.   Most of the food storage items are on the top shelf .  Some of those items are twenty years old.

Richard Darnel, our neighbor,  Made a path for a car, through the snow in front of our house.  He also shoveled the snow on the front sidewalk.
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Week End

1 February Saturday
Last week I began building a storage rack last week.  I ended up with this late Saturday morning.

I glued the side on the left to the back board.   Then drove some pin nails from the under side.  I put spacer blocks between the dividers on both ends.  I drew a line on both sides of the divider.  A thin bead of glue was applied between the lines.  I clamped both ends tight against the left side.  I drilled some hole from underneath into the divider.  I then screwed the bottom to the dividers.  Turning it upside down I was able to make more holes for the screws.   I did the same for the other dividers.

Here it is partially finished.  Waiting for Monday morning to finish.

3 February Monday

Monday morning we woke up to six inches of snow.

After lunch I pushed off the snow.  It was supposed to snow all day.  I figured that it was easier to remove six inches of snow than it was to push off ten inches of snow.   The above photo shows that  most of snow is gone.  I was snow all the time that I was working.  There is about a half inch of new snow.

I finished up the canned food storage rack,  or least the rough draft.  I used a French cleats  to hold it to the door.

There was eleven inches of snow on the front walk.  I couldn't push it off.  I got my large aluminum scoop shovel and shoveled if off the sidewalk.

This is how it looked after I finished.

The soup cans in the two shoots on the right are too small, and they don't fit.  I cut s narrow strip of wood and glued it to the inside edges of the last strip.  It is held in place by the clamps until the glue sets.

There is still a lot more to do.  The soup cans just to small.  Tomorrow, a day to finish it.


Comments and questions are welcome.