October is a busy month for us every year. It is the first month with cool weather after our long and hot summer. We try to catch up on camping and fishing and cycling and all the other outdoor activities we enjoy. I did not include disc golf because we play that all year, hot or cold, wet or dry!
October is also the month of my birthday! I tend to celebrate most of the month. You can do that when you get older. Other family birthdays in October include my son and his mate, my grand daughter, two of my nephews, a niece, and a nephew's wife. Yeah, we have pretty much re-named the month to Partytober.
This year we also mourned the passing of my better half's dad. He also loved to be outdoors every minute he could.
This year, my son and his wife came to our house for a long weekend of various outdoor activities which included disc golf in the dark. We had lights that attached to the bottom of the disc and lights on the baskets. This was our second experience at night disc golf and I never get tired of watching the discs in flight with the strobe lights attached.
Needless to say, we didn't have a lot of time for attending to our blog and other social media sites as we barely managed to stay on top of orders with all that partying going on. But, we are getting back in the groove now.
We just got a load of beautiful walnut in and have begun processing it for various projects. Of course, the band saw quit again and I just now finished repairing it. The blade somehow got out of alignment and was moving forward and backward in the cutting area.
A new sanding box has been added to the shop. It works like a dream and is so much better than what we were using. We made a top for it rather than using pegboard, and added a baffle system to direct suction to the shop vacuum.
The next shop project I would like to construct is a clamping table. I'm thinking about 6 feet long with clamps every foot or so. Presently, I put six bar clamps on a 6 foot folding table. It would be much nicer to have a permanent table that I did not have to assemble and disassemble each time I used it.
Tomorrow I will be on the planer. All day. I hope she let's me take a break for lunch!
Have a great weekend.
