Picture Frame is Glued Together

We went to Fillmore this morning to get a few things at the Market. 

Carol wanted to get the big TV out of her bedroom. It hasn't been on for years and taking up a lot of room and collecting dust.  I is very heavy.  I can't lift it by myself.  Unconected the power card and we slid it onto a bench nest to the table it was sitting on.  It would move.  I did not disconnect the signal cable.  I got that done.  We then picket up the bench and TV and slowly move it two the front door.  We stopped several times to rest.  The doorbell rang and our neighbor brought me some tax papers.  He helped us get it to the end of the sidewalk.  I brought the car over and we stuck it in the trunk.  It was so big that we couldn't close the trunk.  We slowly drove on the frontage road and took it to the DI drop off.  There was a person there who helped us lift it out of the trunk.

While there I bought another piece of glass, 8 1/2 by 11 inch.  When we got home I got a 8 1/2 x 11 and cut in to one square with 8 1/2 inch sides.  I designed the frame on top of that paper.  I determined the short side and long side of the frames.  I cut the rabbits and mitered the ends.  I turned the miter gage at a 45 degree and attached a four foot board to the face of it.  By using a stop block I was able to cut the sides to the same size and the same for the ends.

I joined the miters together and made the rectangle.  I got the glass to check it to fit.  It didn't fit.  The outside of the frame fit the glass perfectly, but would not fit the rabbit.  got the problem fixed and made new sides and ends larger.

After lunch I got it all glued together and clamped.  Clamping was a problems.  I drilled holes through the rabbit.  Then placing a little dowel to keep the two pieces lined up.  I glued the all together and used four clamps.

Late this afternoon I ordered plants. 

Picture Frame 2

I spent two more hours today to make a picture frame.  I ended up with more fire wood.  I made the rabbit two hold the glass and the frame parts were a little bit too short.  I kept making the bigger and always to short.  The short side of the frames should be next to the fence when fed through.  Some of them were fed through and made a cut. Upside down, backward, almost every way that I could.  I made these mistakes without carefully checking each piece.

Early this evening, Anne next door, called and needed some help with some invitations for Valentine party next month.  Their printer would not work.  Raymond, her husband, emailed it to me.  It was not a file or attachment but just a note on the email.  Later, Raymond came over to get it.  It wasn't ready, finally I got it ready and printed it.  I did not look like a wanted it to look.  We had supper and I went to the other computer, and was able to get it looking right.  I take it to them in the morning.

Carol has been nursing her left leg all day.  For some reason it has been very painful.

Another Snow This Morning

I had my chapter in the Book of Mormon read and posted comments on Face Book by seven this morning.  I am reading chapters from the Book of Mormon that are our Sunday School reading assignments.

Carol had the cat's food ready.  I put the TV on pause and did my chores.  I made me a one egg omelet which tasted pretty good.  I also made three bowels of oatmeal mush.

It snow some during the night which amounted to one half inch.  Carol mentioned to me that should clear the snow where the Masner's cars were snowed in from the storm of last week plus the snow plows that piled the snow behind their cars.    I pushed the snow out of the way making it a lot easier to park their cars and enter their cars without walking through the deep snow.

I pushed snow away from one of the Stephenson's car.

I drove the tractor up the street two the Miller's yard.  The snowplows put a lot of snow blocking two cars and one truck.  There was a lot of hard packed snow which it took several passes to get it moves.  Richard the neighbor across the street came over with his shovel.  He shoveled snow that was close to cars, and I pushed it away.  The truck was gone which made it much easier to push that snow away.

After lunch we drove to Fillmore.  I got a piece of glass to use in a picture frame and some sandpaper.  We then went to the market and got some groceries.  I also made a deposit at the Credit Union.  On the way home we stopped for soft ice cream. 

We drove around town and checked driveways for some snow removal.  They were all done.  I came home and began to sand the little table that I made last week. I made a new top for it, then stained it.

Another Space Saver

I worked on my business taxes this morning.  The Federal withholding taxes and the state sale taxes.  What more can I say about these.  I had no employees the last quarter of 2015 so I had no money to pay.  I did sale some plants during the last quarter and had to pay some sales tax, but not much.  That took much of the morning.

This afternoon I worked in the nursery for about and hour.  The weather has been quite warm. 

The late afternoon I built a little shelf for the pantry and organize powered sugar, brown sugar, shredded coconut,  and some odds and ends.

The partial box is 16 inches deep, 8 inches deep, and 18 inches wide.   Items are put into small totes with two on the top and two on the bottom.  The totes are labeled as to what they contain. 

Last spring was the first time that we have tried to grow luffa sponges. We started with transplants which were started late in the spring.  We tried them anyway.  I don't know if anyone else started any.  We had about five plants.  It took a long time before we saw any flowers.  When we did, they were the male flowers.  We saw a lot of male flowers before there were any female flowers and then some fruit.  Once they started growing we could see a difference everyday.

This  pictures is of the first luffa that started.  It took quite a while before we saw any other sponges. There were about eight more sponges.  Most of the were smaller than the one above. 

Provo City Center Temple

Tuesday, Jim and Carol Masner invited us to go the Provo City Center Temple open house on 15 January.  The Provo tabernacle burned down five years ago and later the Church announced that the tabernacle would be rebuilt and as a temple.  It is finished and the open house began today.  The Masners had four tickets

Last night snow was the forecast for today.  Sure enough, when we got up it was snowing and by 8:30 there was two inches of snow.  I talked to Jim and we decided that we would go and he would take his four wheel drive truck.  They picked us up and we could hardly get on main street. The roads were pretty slippery.  The freeway appeared pretty bad when we reached the north entrance to I-15.  There was some discussion; should we turn around go back to Holden or should we go to Scipio and turn around.  The road north from Scipio looked only wet.  We drove on the Provo with a quick stop at the Deseret  Book Store in Spanish Fork.

We were an hour early to the temple, but went in any way.  There were volunteers all along the way to keep us going in the right directions.  We put on white plastic booties over our shoes to keep the temple clean.    The were four video rooms where we watch a wonderful video explaining the purposes of temples.  We went on the elevator to each level.  The instruction rooms were very beautiful.  The celestial room was on the top level.  There was a constant feeling that this was the house of the Lord.

After the tour of the temple was completed we visited the area that had a bunch of displays.  There they had two large pictures of the temple and they would take pictures of us in front of it. They emailed it to us.

When we were finished with the tore, we went outside and Jim took this picture.  This is Carol and I on the outside of the temple.  I believe that this area will open to all after the temple is dedicated. 

Carol had special feelings there because of the many times that she attended various meetings in her youth.
 
On the way home we ate at the La Casita Mexican Restaurant on main street.  The food was very good.  The owner, who was also the host was very entertaining.  It took us quite awhile to be served.  The place was really crowded.  We then came home.

Varnishing My Table

A stool that I use at the kitchen table has a large potted plant on top of it.  The stool that I use at my desk top computer is moved from computer to table back to the computer.  To day I decided that I would varnish the top of the plant table.  I used a spray can and did not want to get it on the legs.  I have some screw holes that I need to plug before that.  I wrapped paper around the legs to shield them from the varnish.  I the sprayed it with many coats.  It is out side so the smell will dissipate. Tomorrow I will bring it into the house.

Can Storage

Our pantry is just off the kitchen.  When we are preparing a meal, it is a few steps away.  It is so handy, but over the years we bring things in and nothing goes out.  That is not entirely true.  There are some things that have come out, but ended up in the garage.  Now the garage is another problem to deal with.

Above is a look in the pantry.  It has been worse. There are times that we can't walk to the back without stepping over things.

This is a looking to the right.  This where our bottled fruits, beans, sauces, juices, jams and jellies are kept.  Most are used during and replenished when our garden begins to produce.  Canned fruits and vegetable that we buy from time to time are stored on the right.  Can in the back exceed their "eat by" date.

So I am looking for a way to organize the all the canned goods.  First place to look is on You Tube.  In the past I have seen storage containers for cans in the big box stores, but lately I haven't been able to find them.  One of the many You Tube videos I viewed impressed me.  I viewed it a dozen times.   I got the plans, but the dimension would not fit in the place where I was going to put it.   I had to design one that would fit. 

You may not be able to see the above drawings.  Plans are usaually made to scale.  This is not to scale, but to exact size.  I then used the plans and measured each piece, cut them out, and did a little dry fitting.  I glued some or the parts together, others I glued and nailed and some I used screws.  When finished I put cans in it.  Some cans got stuck.  I made several adjustments, and finally it works the way planned.

The picture above and the one below show the finished piece.  It is a little rough looking.  I made only one unit to get the design right.  The next project will be to make one that is about four feet long.  I should be able to put all of our cans, then use the oldest first.   I put new cans in the top and take the older ones out the bottom.