Year: 2020
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Carving a Spoon Bowl
I was wanting a small bowl to put my spoon on for when I make coffee in the mornings. I had a scrap oak board and used the angle grinder with a sand flap disk to carve out a long shallow bowl. I finished it with tung oil and it is working well. A different…
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Wooden Toy Car
I made Simon a little wooden toy car, it’s kind of like one of the pinewood derby cars. I cut it out from scrap 2×4 and 3d printed the wheels. I tried using nails first, but I couldn’t find any with a good fit. Simon was getting too impatient at the store, so I bought…
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Wireguard
One of the guys at work asked me if I had played with Wireguard yet, and I hadn’t. Now I have. It’s pretty neat, simpler to set up that vpn, and faster to connect to and use. It was recently added to the Linux kernel, so it will be supported by lots of things. To…
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New Dog
We adopted a new dog from the Plano Animal Shelter on Saturday. His name is Garfunkel. He is an Irish Setter and about 18 months they thought.
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Pegboard for the Potting Bench
On Saturday, we added some good weather resistant pegboard to Amanda’s potting bench. I nailed it on the back with some washers to prevent the nails from pulling through. Now she has lots more storage space.