14th January 2022
We had to drive to Lowes to meet up with a chap who was selling a greenhouse. This has to be the longest transaction in Holland history, because Kelli had been communicating with him for months. We thought it had died a death as the guy stopped responding, but suddenly he started up again. We decided to buy it for our plans to grow more veg for ourselves.
On the way back we stopped off at Goodwill, we hadn’t been to that one for a long time. There wasn’t much there except for a black painted desk. As our stock was rapidly diminishing, we thought it would be a good piece to have, and as it was only five dollars it was a bit of a bargain.
It was a heavy beast, I had to get help to move it from the store through the back room to the loading bay. The person available was a large lady, who had problems walking. She waddled in front of me, I wasn’t sure if she was capable to helping me carry the furniture, and that proved correct, instead she pushed it.
The scraping sound echoed around the store, I pretended that I wasn’t involved. Once through the double doors she handed the baton to a young lad to do the actual carrying and lifting.
With a struggle we got it into the truck, the first Goodwill purchase this year.
I had one of those days when things didn’t go right, a day when things might have been thrown as far as I could throw them.
It started when I started making a sample of the extension piece for the unit that has to be increased in height. I decided to use my new dowel jig to join all the parts together. I cut up all the parts and marked every piece so I could align the doweling jig. I drilled all the holes, and then came the time to assemble the frame.
There was perfect alignment on the faces but a small step on the ends. This shouldn’t have happened! All the lines lined up, I refitted the jig and tried to re-drill the holes. This did nothing, the steps were still there.
I then started checking every piece of wood and found that the end cuts were slightly out of square. I need to recalibrate the saw now.
Then as I was fitting the bottom panel into the drawer box that I had made, one of the panels dropped on to the floor and chipped the bottom corner. Being a soft plywood it just broke away, I cursed out loud!
I decided to stop for the day in case something else went wrong.
Another Lifetime to go 