im still around ha ha

[Dragonkort]

Hi guys, just letting everyone know im still around but might not be on much.. you see its the beginning of the harvest season and that means im going to be busy and wont be able to get into my wood shop as much.  Yesterday i made sauce and today im making stuffed peppers.  I have the first 2 pans cooling on the counter, another 2 pans are in the oven cooking and i have 2 more pans to put in the oven when those are done....then after everything cools i have to package them up and put them in the freezer... im taking a small break right now before i get started on the zuccinee... I have 4 groucy bags of zuccinne that i have to peal, cut , grate and then preree... once all thats done i can start making zuccinee bread and cookies and muffens. lol im hoping to get some corn on the cob soon too. and depending on how much bread and such i get from this batch of  zuccinne  i might have to buy more zuccinee as i make the bread and stuff for the whole family...siblings children neices and nephews and some forthe people in the neigberhood.... lol needless to say im tired at the end of the day lolo then after i get all that done it should be time to pick the apples off the apple trees in the back yard and start making applesauce, apple butter and dried apples. lol depending on  how well my trees do  this year.... i could make as much last year as the trees didnt produce many apples and the ones they did produce were small....checked the apple trees a couple of weeks ago and again the apples are pretty small im hoping they will get bigger by the end of sept....im going to have to look up on line to see what might be wrong with my tree or what i need to do to get them making large apples and more of them....it would help if i know what KIND of apple tree it is but of course i dont there just apple trees that came with the house lol.....but i will  still try to sneak into the woodshop and do what i can inbetween baking and canning and getting things ready to bake and cann lol well need to check the oven...i'll try to come look if nothing else 

[amazingkevin]

A woman's work on s never done but it sounds like your up to your neck with things to do!!!

[Dragonkort]

lol that i am.  spike declared today as a holiday...sort of a day off. lol  so i did manage to get into the wood  shop for a little bit.  Although i love doing the fret work on my wizzard im not sure if i will ever do anything that complex again.   its not the drilling of the holes or the cutting thats getting to me...i enjoy that but rather the really small saw blades...i changed to a larger drill bit then i was using to one slightly larger but still small enough to not go into another peice or the white airea....and im still having trouble thearding the blade into to the holes.... the darn things keep bending on me lol or breaking befor i even get it in the saw. lol  now im trying to take the blade competely our of the saw and threading it through the hole and then  putting the blade back into the saw.... but im still having the problem of the blades bending as i try to thread it thught the hole... i hate to go to a bigger drill bit but i think im going to have to.. Hopefuly i have another drill bit thats just a little bigger then the one im using... im cutting a little bit into the black so theres a bit more room between the pieces im cutting out and that helps a bit....unfrountly i got to close on 2 of  the peices and had them break out...but i was able to save the peaces and im hoping that i will be able to glue them back in place or that  they wont make to big of a difference in the finished project.... we will see....but i am not going to toss out all the work iv done on it so far if theres any chance at all that i can fix it....  or even modify it some how.  the wizzards face is all cut out already and if worse comes to worse i can modify the pattern and just frame the wizzards head humm like i said we'll see what i can do.... but im also going to look for another pattern a bit less complex to make for the stock box... that will make it 3 different projects in wood i'll be working on....the wizzard, and my friend drew a dragon address sign holder for me...spike found some wood thats big enouogh for it as well a thick enough... i'll cut out the middle of the sign the dragons holdeing so i can insert the numbers into it also made from wood , but i thinking i'll do some line carving on it like i did for my daughters D&D screen and then paint it... but i'll have to do it on both sides . hopefuly today i can trace over the pattern to make it darker and then use another peice of tracing paper to retrace the picture on to use as the pattern while saving the orginal....and of course im still doing the compound cut patterns and working on the cut offs .  iv started crocheting with the plarn so im doing something while im watching tv. but of course all of this has to be done inbetween  working on the food lol  spike put up my swing chair outside and since it was so nice i went out and sat in it and crocheted for about an hour... not a big deal for most people but since i seldom if ever go out ..... lol it made spike happy.... lol  well i guess it time for me to get back to work!!